Architectural landmarks in Tijuana tell the story of a city shaped by modernism, cross-border exchange and the urgent need ...

Regional systems analysis has evolved significantly since the end of the Cold War, particularly with the rise of regional blocs and multilateral groupings. This shift has helped shape a wide range of ...

Michael Pollan, the American journalist whose edict “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” became an international fridge magnet, is back with a warning about the limits of artificial intelligence – ...

Watching the usual gibbering about political theory slide past our screens is disspiriting because to live in a dying society is bad enough, but to live in one where everyone has gone insane and will ...

In this article, we argue that conventional understandings of regional integration based on neo-functionalism, hitherto often used to describe the diverse projects of Latin American regionalism, are ...

Scared of artificial intelligence? Greg Heffley, the comic hero of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, has some good advice: “I’ve actually been preparing for when the robots take over by sucking up to the ...

The political reception of Niklas Luhmann in the English-speaking world is still localized. His death in 1998 triggered a wider general interest in his work, and its susceptibility to reception in ...

Teaching social theory is just plain fun. For me, it’s an opportunity to see our world in a multidimensional way. Who needs a comic book multiverse when you can look at social phenomena through ...

replies: A functionalist approach to international relations emphasises the importance of specific issues or problems, mainly technical in nature, in engendering the need for cooperation among nationS ...

If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...