Ibidem imprint: 334 books

Helsinki Revisited

A Key U.S. Negotiator's Memoirs on the Development of the CSCE into the OSCE

by John Maresca
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016

The Helsinki Final Act of 1975 set in motion the legitimate, peaceful redrawing of national boundaries in many postcommunist countries—a triumph for pluralist democracy, the market economy, and personal freedom. Today, this policy serves as a diplomatic template for the proper handling of the current...

Towards a New Russian Work Culture

Can Western Companies and Expatriates Change Russian Society?

by Vladimir Karacharovskiy, Ovsey Shkaratan, Gordey Yastrebov
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018

This innovative book offers a fresh perspective on the national work culture of Russia and the substantial role foreign institutional and cultural impact has had in shaping it. Russia's contemporary work culture is understood as a national system supplemented by new values and attitudes that have...

Patriotic Education in Contemporary Russia

Sociological Studies in the Making of the Post-Soviet Citizen

by Anna Sanina
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

This book outlines the complexities, contestation, and contradictions in the formal organization and contents of patriotic education in post-Soviet Russia. While the topics of patriotism and patriotic education are highly political and politicized, this study approaches them from a more sociological...

Conflict Resolution Beyond the International Relations Paradigm

Evolving Designs as a Transformative Practice in Nagorno-Karabakh and Syria

by Philip Gamaghelyan
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...

Ukraine's Post-Communist Mass Media

Between Capture and Commercialization

by Andreas Umland, Natalya Ryabinska
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

Natalya Ryabinska calls into question the commonly held opinion that the problems with media reform and press freedom in former Soviet states merely stem from the cultural heritage of their communist (and pre-communist) past. Focusing on Ukraine, she argues that, in the period after the fall of communism,...
by Boris Popivanov
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

by Aijan Sharshenova
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...
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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

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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?

by Vasile Rotaru
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...

Romania’s Strategic Culture 1990–2014

Continuity and Change in a Post-Communist Country’s Evolution of National Interests and Security Policies

by Iulia-Sabina Joja, Andreas Umland
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019

Analysis of strategic culture facilitates a comprehensive understanding of a nation’s security identity and patterns of policy conduct. Though strategic culture changes over time, why and how these mutations take place has not been researched much so far. This book sheds light on the reasons why...

A War of Songs

Popular Music and Recent Russia-Ukraine Relations

by Andrei Rogatchevski, Arve Hansen, David-Emil Wickström
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

by Thomas D. Grant
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

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...
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