Publications
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The Peacebuilding Puzzle
(2016-12-15)
Transformative peace operations fall short of achieving the modern political order sought in post-conflict countries because the interventions themselves empower post-conflict elites intent on forging a neopatrimonial ...
Balancing Power without Weapons
(2018-03-22)
Why do states block some foreign direct investment on national security grounds even when it originates from within their own security community? Government intervention into foreign takeovers of domestic companies is on ...
Print, Publicity and Radicalism in the 1790s
(2016-06-01)
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement’s achievement was the creation of an idea of ‘the people’ brought into ...
Taxes and Trust
(2018-01-12)
Taxes and Trust is the first book on taxes to focus on trust and the first work of social science to concentrate on how tax policy actually gets implemented on the ground in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. It highlights the ...
An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics
(2007)
The second edition of this introductory graduate textbook provides a concise yet accessible introduction to the Standard Model. It has been updated to account for the successes of the theory of strong interactions and the ...
Governing Failure
(2014)
Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus,' were driven by an erosion of expert authority ...
The Theory and Applications of Instanton Calculations
(2018)
Instantons, or pseudoparticles, are solutions to the equations of motion in classical field theories on a Euclidean spacetime. Instantons are found everywhere in quantum theories as they have many applications in quantum ...
Unity of Science
(2021)
Unity of science was once a very popular idea among both philosophers and scientists. But it has fallen out of fashion, largely because of its association with reductionism and the challenge from multiple realisation. ...
Polio Across the Iron Curtain
(2018)
By the end of the 1950s Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now
call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution
of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the ...
Chapter 3 Persuasive technologies and the right to mental liberty
(2022)
The outline of this chapter is as follows. In section 2 we provide a further definition of
PTs, and present some possibilities that PTs offer for the smart correctional rehabilitation of
criminal offenders. Next, in ...