De Gruyter Brill Social Sciences

29/09/2026

28/09/2026

Check out our recent title: “Turkish Foreign Policy in Its Centenary: The 102 Years of Experience” edited by Volkan İpek, Ebru İlter Akarçay, and Hüseyin Batuhan Şar.

📚 About the book:
When one talks or writes about the foreign policy history of a state like Turkey, which was never colonized but felt the direct threat of colonialism in the first quarter of the 20th century, it becomes inevitable to refer to the establishment of its republic as the origin. Since 30 October 1923, the first day of the Republic, Turkey has always interacted with its close and distant neighbors around the world within a stable range despite several periodic fluctuations. These interactions were sometimes used by the Turkish state to regulate domestic politics, as in the case of humanitarian diplomacy toward African states, which influenced civil society policies. At other times, domestic politics were used to regulate foreign policy, as in the case of reforming institutions to adapt to the European Union’s acquis communautaire. In all respects, Turkey has been able to feel the turning points in its interactions with its distant and close neighbors and has tried its best to guard its national interests.

“Turkish Foreign Policy in Its Centenary: The 102 Years of Experience” was written to elucidate these turning points in Turkey’s interactions with its distant and close neighbors in three main regions: from the USA, Europe, and Latin America as symbols of the West; to Gulf, African, and Middle Eastern states as symbols of the South; and to Russia, Central Asian, Caucasian, and Oceanic states as symbols of the East. It is not only the first book on Turkish foreign policy with the widest coverage, including 116 of the 196 states in the world, but also one of the most comprehensive works depicting the 102-year history of Turkish foreign policy.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/74554

25/09/2026

Check out “Neoliberalism, Democracy and “Private Diplomacy”: A History of the Council of the Americas (1965-2019)” by Rejane Carolina Hoeveler, translated by Daniel Moreira Safadi, now available in our New Scholarship in Political Economy Book Series!

📚 This book investigates the trajectory of the Council of the Americas (COA), founded in 1965, revealing how it became the leading private orchestrator of the United States' unofficial political actions in Latin America. Drawing on a Marxian and Gramscian perspective, the work analyzes the ties between this transnational hegemonic private apparatus and the South American dictatorships of the 1960s and 1970s, later shaping their democracies through neoliberalism. By exposing the role of the COA as an organic “collective intellectual” of fractions of international capital, the study offers a vital contribution to understanding the inner workings of U.S. hegemony.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/63334

21/09/2026

Recent title: "Of Tribes and Empires: Essay on Variations in the Relationship between Social Morphologies and Political Orders" by Mohamed Cherkaoui, published in our Youth in a Globalizing World book series!

📚About the book:
"Of Tribes and Empires" challenges the idea that states and empires naturally emerge by overcoming tribal societies. Focusing on the region from the Sahara to the Gobi Desert, Cherkaoui argues that political order has long been shaped by a durable struggle between tribal organization and imperial power. Empires rise by incorporating tribes, yet rarely succeed in neutralizing them. From the incomplete Romanization of Berber societies to the institutional fragility of Islamic empires, tribal structures repeatedly undermine imperial centralization. This unresolved tension, Cherkaoui contends, continues to shape political authority in contemporary Arab-Muslim societies and helps explain the failure of the emergence of capitalism and liberal-democracy. The book also reveals why imperial claims to cultural universality collapse, introducing “proletaroid intellectuals” as key producers of ideological resistance and alternative forms of legitimacy.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/75163

18/09/2026

Check out “Archive Nightmare: Cultural Memory and the Uses of Silence in the Dominican Republic” by Médar Serrata now available in our Critical Latin America Book Series!

📚In August 1865, Javier Angulo Guridi arrived in Santo Domingo carrying four loads of documents from the Restoration War—crossing swollen rivers by broken canoe, over fifty leagues of trail with no inn in sight. Within a year, those archives had vanished—one of many such losses this book sets out to understand. Drawing on a wealth of published and unpublished documents and rare images, from nineteenth-century archives to modern metro maps, this book reveals that what gets erased and who gets silenced was rarely left to chance—offering a new lens for understanding how institutions of memory across Latin America have been built as much to suppress as to preserve the past.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/75203

17/09/2026

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue: Sports and American Politics 🏈⚾🏀
Guest editors: Amanda Friesen (University of Western Ontario) and Christopher Dawes (New York University)

Sports can play a central role in the lives of people, communities, society, and the world. Increasingly, political scientists are uncovering the relationship between sports teams, events, players, fans, and political views, policies, and actions. We invite full manuscripts that investigate the intersection of sports and American politics. We are open to a broad range of contexts, subfield, and methodologies.
Full manuscripts can be submitted to The Forum portal https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgforum , please select special issue “Sports and Politics”.

Deadline: December 1, 2026
Questions about the suitability of a project for this issue may be directed to [email protected] and [email protected]

14/09/2026

🎀 CALL FOR PAPERS 🎀

“Remembering Dolly Parton: What Backwoods Barbie teaches us about femininity.”

Refer to the full post for details.

To submit a proposal for consideration, please send a 250-word abstract and a current CV to [email protected] by November 16, 2026.

Authors will be notified of the status of their proposals by November 23, 2026.

Full manuscripts will be due March 23, 2027.

Please consult the Journal of Femininities website for manuscript guidelines.

Questions may be directed to the Editors at the above email address.

14/09/2026

Just published: “War Communism” as Revolution: Lev Kritsman's The Heroic Period of the Great Russian Revolution (an attempt at an analysis of so-called “War Communism”) by Frederick Corney, published in our Historical Materialism book series!

📚In “War Communism” as Revolution: Lev Kritsman's The Heroic Period of the Great Russian Revolution (an attempt at an analysis of so-called “War Communism”), Frederick C. Corney examines this seminal economic analysis of the first years of the revolutionary Soviet system by the economist Lev Kritsman in 1924. His explicitly Marxist analysis of the years of 'War Communism' has been the basis of many later economic analyses of this period. Corney has translated into English the complete text, annotated it, and written an extensive introduction, contextualizing Kritsman's work within the broader economic discussions of the period. He also contextualizes it within the radically changing political climate that proved so fateful to many economists of this era, Kritsman included.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/72402

07/09/2026

New title: "History of The Austrian Council Movement 1918–24" by Hans Hautmann, translated by Maciej Zurowski, in our Historical Materialism book series!

📚The history of the First Austrian Republic is often understood in terms of its eventual failure, namely the civil war fought in the streets of Vienna in February 1934 and the crushing of the workers’ movement by Austrofascism. The fall of ‘Red Vienna’ is well known, but the ‘workers’ and soldiers’ council movement’ (1917–24) that preceded it seems to have been buried under the rubble of fascism. And yet a whole body of historiography has sought to deepen our understanding of this history. Among its leading representatives is Hans Hautmann. Here, we present his brilliant and too-little-known study to English-speaking readers for the first time.

Learn more: https://brill.com/display/title/25265