International Journal of Social Science Research and Review

In the 2010s, dark romance has become an increasingly popular and distinctive subgenre of contemporary romance. Unlike regular romance, dark romance promises a focus on more complex, ambiguous, and oftentimes taboo tropes, including stalking, violence, and emotional manipulation. This fact becomes concerning when one considers the genre’s almost limitless accessibility due to the internet and its…

This paper examines the contrasting policy responses of Sweden and Norway to the Ukrainian refugee crisis, revealing how two seemingly similar Nordic welfare states have adopted distinct approaches to refugee reception and integration. Although both countries share humanitarian traditions and welfare-oriented governance models, Sweden has pursued a more restrictive and bureaucratic policy, limiti…

This paper explores how migration, race, and belonging intersect in the lived experiences of interracial couples within contemporary Hungary. Drawing on qualitative interviews with international students and their partners, the paper offers a small glimpse into how everyday acts of love and intimacy become sites of negotiation, resistance, and translation in a context marked by migration anxietie…

International law is often represented as a neutral and universal legal system; however, critical scholarship has illustrated the ways in which it is inextricably embedded in colonial histories and sustained by global power hierarchies. Third World Approaches to International Law emerged as a significant critical intervention, highlighting the Eurocentric underpinnings of international law and it…

For Weber, bureaucracy was an ideal type construct, which he used to understand the nature of transformation in social organisations through the development of human history. His view was that all organised efforts that humans make or have made in the past will eventually lead to a more legal-rational type of organisation which was the bureau. According to him it was the most rational type organi…

This paper examines the Pan-Arab community in Hungary as a social space in which individuals from diverse Arab backgrounds engage in ongoing processes of interaction, negotiation, and differentiation. Rather than treating the community as a homogeneous co-ethnic network, the study focuses on the internal dynamics that emerge among its members after migration. Drawing on ten narrative and in-depth…

The interpretation of the principle of non-intervention by the International Court of Justice in the case of Nicaragua v. United States has established clear standards on actions that constitute unlawful interference in the internal affairs of a State, including the key elements of a violation of the principle of non-intervention. The ICJ emphasized that only actions that exert a coercive effect …

By adopting a juristocratic perspective, this study examines Supreme Court interventions and democratic governance in Rivers State, in consideration of the state’s perennial and intense political volatility and contestations, often characterised by struggles for resource control, disputes between the state and the federal government, party factional controversies, legislative–executive disputes, …

Education is globally recognized as a key driver of social and economic development, as it equips individuals with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for personal and professional growth. This study examined the relationship between school heads’ instructional supervision, teacher satisfaction, and teachers’ work performance in the Tubod District, Division of Lanao del Norte. A descripti…

The East Sea is a maritime space of particular significance for economic development, energy security, maritime trade, coastal livelihoods, and the geo-economic structure of the Asia-Pacific region. Against the backdrop of increasing strategic competition among major powers, maritime economic cooperation in the East Sea offers both opportunities to promote a green economy, circular economy, marit…

This article discusses strategies for implementing the Love-Based Curriculum as a breakthrough in humanistic education at Lazuardi Compassion Global School, West Java Province, Indonesia. There has been criticism that the educational paradigm in Indonesia has thus far tended to be technocratic and focused solely on cognitive achievements, without placing sufficient emphasis on the importance of s…

Knowledge of determinants of MSME density is important to inform evidence-based economic policy, especially in developing economies where MSMEs are the main drivers of employment, poverty reduction, and inclusive growth. This study fills an important knowledge gap in the body of empirical literature by offering cross-country quantitative data on how the level of national income determines the for…

In spite of extensive international intervention, investment and institution-building over several decades, lasting peace continues to be a distant dream for large parts of the world. This paper presents the "Triadic Stool Model" -- a conceptual framework based on the idea that there are three interconnected pillars for building sustainable peace and a functioning state: (1) good Governance and R…

Despite widespread efforts to promote financial literacy, little is known about how such knowledge translates into actual investment satisfaction among individual retail investors. This study investigates the role of disciplined investment behavior as a mediating mechanism linking financial literacy to investment satisfaction in the United States. Using primary survey data from 291 investors, a s…

This study evaluates the budget performance of research programs at the National Institute of Science and Technology (INCT) Timor-Leste for the period 2021–2024 using the Value for Money (VfM) framework. While previous research highlights high administrative budget absorption, the link between financial inputs and policy outcomes remains under-analyzed. This research employs a descriptive quantit…

This study examines sexist jokes in the workplace as a form of symbolic violence experienced by female workers in Indonesia, employing a qualitative descriptive approach grounded in Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of symbolic violence. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with seven female informants across diverse occupational sectors, complemented by document analysis of relevant sources. T…

This study examines the relationship between key macroeconomic factors and economic growth, with a focus on inflation, investment, and consumption dynamics. It adopts an analytical framework to explore three core dimensions: the growth–stability trade-off reflected through inflation, the role of external versus domestic investment captured by foreign direct investment (FDI) and gross capital form…

Longevity and geriatric demands are increasing throughout the world, particularly in developing economies like India. India is peculiarly positioned as although the extent and magnitude of the country’s demands is acknowledged, resultant private and public investments/schemes have been revealed to be vastly inadequate to address this huge rural-urban aged population. Ideally, the solution lies in…

Product Positioning plays a key role in influencing the sales of different products. The goal of the study is to determine whether product placement, particularly the front of the store, aisle, and end-cap, majorly have an impact on sales volume of product categories, including clothing, food, and electronics. The study uses a dataset of 1001 observations obtained from Kaggle. This contains both …

Social media has rapidly become a ubiquitous feature of daily life, yet research examining its psychological consequences has yielded conflicting findings. This paper argues that the active–passive dichotomy, contrasting interactive engagement with passive consumption, offers the most robust framework for understanding when and why social media use harms or benefits well-being. Drawing on Festing…