Uncomfortably Off reveals that those generally considered to be the most affluent feel anxious about the future and struggle to keep up, or even to stay put., but reducing income inequality will benefit everyone, even those quite near the top.

This book examines how changes to social rules reshape how states explain their military actions, and changes to technology and society transform contemporary warfare. Analysing the role that war serves in global politics, it outlines the ways in which war affects the contemporary world, from international relations to our day-to-day lives.

Bringing together a range of perspectives from practice, lived experience and academia, this is an accessible and timely guide to children’s services reform. Critically considering the impact of the MacAlister Review, the book highlights both the positive and negative aspects of reform, before setting out alternative policy and practice directions.

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book draws on the accounts of 170 individuals who had, or led, a wedding ceremony outside the legal framework. The authors examine what these ceremonies can tell us about how couples want to marry, and what aspects of the current law preclude them from doing so.

This groundbreaking book provides the state-of-the-art in the study of gender, feminisms and foreign policy. Bringing together contributors from around the world, chapters offer new analyses of foreign policy topics, including trade, defence, environment, peacebuilding, disinformation and development assistance.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited collection provides new insights into refugee reception and camps by focusing on the overlap between local and global dynamics in the governance of camps, providing valuable insights to understand the complex realities of refugee camps around the world.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on original interviews with the parents of migrants in Bolivia who stayed in their country of origin, this book analyses diverse practices of transnational care within a single country and examines the impact on these parents.

An insider perspective of how LGBTQ+ civil society organisations influenced Irish public policy between 1993, the year when homosexuality was decriminalised, and 2015, when both marriage equality and progressive gender recognition legislation were introduced.

In 2022, Russia became the first country to be expelled from the Council of Europe due to its invasion of Ukraine. The profound impact of its exit on international human rights is hard to overestimate. This book chronicles and examines the events leading up to Russia’s expulsion, the negative legacy left by it and strategies for the future policy.

As populations age around the world, there is an urgent need to address inadequate provision of care for older and disabled people. This is the first collective effort to use the concept of care poverty to analyse inequalities in care at an international level and from a social policy perspective.

Patricia Shamai traces the history of nuclear weapons from their first use in 1945 through the Cold War to the ominous nuclear landscape today. She shows how they have been a deterrent by raising the stakes of war and thereby reducing the chances of conflict, but this depends on the world’s reaction and ongoing vigilance.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do immigration policies shape migrant women’s pregnancy and maternity care? This book examines how gendered and racialized policies create barriers to care. Drawing on interviews with mothers and NHS staff, it offers key insights into reproduction, citizenship, and border controls.