Year in review: Looking back at 2025
Summing up, 2025 has been an interesting year. Ups and downs (too many downs) in world politics and in publishing. We have published many books and journals in print and …
The Verlag Barbara Budrich Blog
“MINUSTAH saw the introduction of new practices within the context of a UN peace operation” – Reading sample from “United Nations Peace Operations Revisited”
Can the use of coercive force by UN peace operations truly produce stability when confronting armed non-state actors? Where does stabilisation end and the erosion of peace begin? The publication …
Getting Published in English – Our free Publishing Insights webinar in February
Publishing in English has become standard practice in academia. But as a non-native speaker, how do you communicate your research results and findings to an international audience? How should texts …
“The aim was to ensure that children adopted relevant values and norms and that their behavior was ‘reasonable’.” – Reading sample from “International Perspectives on the History of Early Childhood Education“
How did child protection in families come up, how did institutionalized child protection develop? Which historical narratives and conjunctures played a role for the development of child protection? Find a …
It’s finished: The Budrich Sustainability Report (ESG Report) for 2024 is online
We have been working on it since the beginning of 2025 (!) — but had to wait for the final figures for 2024 before we could complete the report. And …
“It is also a period in which migration politics became increasingly politicized” – Reading sample from “The Politics of Us and Them”
How did migration politics develop in Germany, France and Canada? What are the differences and how did the countries’ approaches change over time? With “The Politics of Us and Them …
“Refugees who escape political violence constantly worry about the well-being of their remaining family members” – Reading sample from “Growing Up in Diaspora”
Miaojun She’s book “Growing Up in Diaspora – Education and Family of East African Refugees in Germany” centers on the life experiences of young East African refugees in Germany. Situated …
“Germany has had an uneasy relationship with its popularity as an immigration country.” – Interview with Friederike Alm, author of “The Politics of Us and Them”
How did migration politics develop in Germany, France and Canada? What are the differences and how did the countries’ approaches change over time? With “The Politics of Us and Them …
“I argue that self-serving belief mechanisms may outweigh system-justification mechanisms.” – Interview with Rebecca Wetter, authour of “Meritocratic Beliefs and the Persistence of Educational Inequality”
Educational success remains strongly linked to social background. However, there is no growing concern about this, which could be explained by meritocratic beliefs that success primarily depends on individual effort …
Catalogue Spring 2026: The New Budrich Books and Journals
Our new catalogue is out! The new catalogue for Spring 2026 offers a glimpse of upcoming publications in the first half of the year 2026! In addition to an overview …