Ibidem Press: 164 books
Conflict Resolution Beyond the International Relations Paradigm
Evolving Designs as a Transformative Practice in Nagorno-Karabakh and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Conflict Resolution holds the promise of freeing approaches and policies with regard to politics of identity from the fatalistic grip of realism. While the conceptual literature on identity and conflicts has moved in this alternative direction, conflict resolution practice continues to rely on realist...
Changing Images of the Left in Bulgaria
An Old-and-New Divide?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Boris Popivanov reassesses the Bulgarian Socialist Party—arguably, the most important political entity in Bulgaria's post-communist history. Considering its internal problems and challenges from a radical grassroots Left, Popivanov explores how the party was the only political organization to remain...
The European Union’s Democracy Promotion in Central Asia
A Study of Political Interests, Influence, and Development in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 2007–2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The EU made the areas of democracy, human rights, rule of law, and good governance a top cooperation priority of the EU Strategy framework towards Central Asia for 2007–2013. The inclusion of strong normative elements into this strategy was both due to the EU’s commitment to democratic principles...
Revolution and War in Contemporary Ukraine
The Challenge of Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of warfare waged by Moscow against Kyiv, including...
Transnational Ukraine?
Networks and Ties that Influence(d) Contemporary Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Euromaidan protests showed Ukraine to be a state between East and West European paths. Ukraine's search for an identity and future is deeply rooted in historical fractures, which indicate its longstanding ties beyond its borders. In this volume, distinguished scholars provide empirical analysis...
Russia, the EU, and the Eastern Partnership
Building Bridges or Digging Trenches?
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Even before the Ukrainian crisis, neither Russia nor the EU was content with their relationship. Despite economic interdependence, strategic partnership, official declarations of belonging culturally and historically to the same "European family" and in spite of Russia’s stated interest...
A War of Songs
Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
This multi-authored monograph consists of the sections: “Pop Rock, Ethno-Chaos, Battle Drums, and a Requiem: The Sounds of the Ukrainian Revolution,” “The Euromaidan’s Aftermath and the Genre of Answer Song: A Musical Dialogue Between the Antagonists?”, “Exposing the Fault Lines beneath...
International Law and the Post-Soviet Space I
Essays on Chechnya and the Baltic States
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The regions that once comprised the Soviet Union have been the scene of crises with serious implications for international law. Some of these, like the separatist conflict in Chechnya, date to the time of the dissolution of the USSR. Others, like Russia’s forcible annexation of Crimea and intervention...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) is a biannual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland). Like the book series, the journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for new original...
Medical Philosophy
A Philosophical Analysis of Patient Self-Perception in Diagnostics and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This innovative book clarifies the distinction between philosophy of medicine and medical philosophy, expanding the focus from the 'knowing that' of the first to the 'knowing how' of the latter. The idea of patient and provider self-discovery becomes the method and strategy at the basis of therapeutic...
by Gianluca Delfino
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Gianluca Delfino's encounter with one of the Caribbean's most controversial authors illuminates Wilson Harris's imaginative approach to history and time. Delfino references several novels, with a special focus on The Infinite Rehearsal (1987), Jonestown (1996), and The Dark Jester (2001). His analysis...
Democracy by Decree
Prospects and Limits of Imposed Consociational Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The introduction of consociational power sharing as a post-war political system has become one of the international community's preferred post-conflict devices. In situations where warring polities are internally divided by ethnic, religious, linguistic, or national identity, consociationalism guarantees...
Literature and the Cult of Personality
Essays on Goethe and His Influence
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The construction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as an Anglo-American sage and literary icon was the product of a cult of personality that lay at the center of nineteenth-century cultural politics. A reconstruction of the culture wars fought over Goethe's authority, a previously hidden chapter in the...
The Mongol Conquests in the Novels of Vasily Yan
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Vasily Yan (Vassily Grigoryevich Yanchevetsky, 1874–1954) was a writer of historical novels whose popularity survives the test of time. He was widely read throughout the Soviet era and continues to be popular in the post-Soviet era. This book is not just a biographical sketch of an important Russian/Soviet...