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Ukraine in histories and stories
This fascinating collection of texts by contemporary Ukrainian writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukraine’s history—or histories—and analyses of the present as well as conceptual ideas and life stories. The authors present a multi-fa...
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Journal of romanian studies
The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by the Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior...
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The social work of narrative
This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights....
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. It examines both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, simultaneously aspiring to situate them in the broader literature on political violence and ethnic...
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When businesses test hypotheses
This book is an invaluable guide to practitioners seeking to navigate cutting-edge startups while contributing to the resurgence of economies emerging from the aftermath of armed conflict.
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The human flow
This is a captivating book about two journalists who embark on a dangerous journey to report on the trafficking of West African migrants.
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Fake russia
Drawing on both international and Russian sources, expert analyses, and empirical data, this essay collection examines the real state of political, economic and social affairs in Russia.
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Child poverty, youth (un)employment, and social inclusion
Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth une...
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Understanding contemporary russian militarism
Russia's New Generation War—a perpetual subversion of the West is based off a faulty conclusion, was not inevitable, and peace is not impossible on mutually acceptable terms.
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A brief modern chinese history
Haipeng Zhang and Jinyi Zhai provide us with a history of China's struggle for national independence and prosperity, reflecting the “humiliation” in the “sinking” period and the “struggle” during the “rising” period.
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False mirrors
Andrii Demartino investigates how social media can be used to advance an aggressive foreign policy, as exemplified by the Russian Federation’s operation to annex Crimea in 2014. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he traces the implementation of a series of Russian measures to create channels and...
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Historical legacies and the radical right in post–cold war central and eastern europe
The transformation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) after 1989 is often clothed in terms of historical and geographical categories, either as a 'return of history' or as a 'return to Europe', or both. Either way, the radical right in CEE claims a prominent place in this politics of ret...
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In statu nascendi
In Statu Nascendi is a peer-reviewed journal that aspires to be a world-class scholarly platform encompassing original academic research dedicated to the circle of Political Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Theory of International Relations, Foreign Policy, and the political Decision-making process....
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Seven czech women
This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Czech women. The seven life stories, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Bohemia (19th century), the Czech lands in Czechoslo...
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The holocaust in central european literatures and cultures
Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been considered taboo, as only authentic testimony, documents, or at least 'unliterary', prosaic approaches were seen as appropriate. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towa...
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Transnational ukraine?
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 analys...
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Speech
Francisco Gaona traces the evolution of the signal calls of anthropoid apes and early hominids to the vocalized phonic utterances of speech by the isomeric reordering of the signal call’s frequency components.
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Food security and international relations
This book deepens the link between international relations and food security by exploring the humanitarian and ethical importance of a solution to the problem of hunger; the role of the state as a strategically relevant actor in achieving food security; and the nature of the problem of food secur...
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Ukrainian nationalists and the holocaust
One quarter of all Holocaust victims lived in the territory of present-day Ukraine, yet the Holocaust there has not received due attention. This book details the participation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its armed force in the destruction of the Jewish population of Ukraine ...
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Development and dystopia
This book dissects—from both philosophical and empirical viewpoints—the peculiar developmental challenges, geopolitical contexts, and dystopic stalemates that post-Soviet societies face during their transition to new political and cultural orders. The principal geographical focus of the essays is...
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Post-soviet secessionism
The essays collected in this volume address questions such as: How do post-Soviet de facto states survive and continue to grow? How do secessionist movements become embedded in wider networks of separatism in Eastern and Western Europe? What is the impact of secessionism and war on the parental s...
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The quest for an ideal youth in putin's russia ii
Government-organized yet scandal-stricken, Nashi inspires everything from broad support to a reluctance to accept all implications of Putin's political system. This volume shows how Nashi conceptualizes an "ideal youth" within the framework of an official national identity politics and as an atte...
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Beckett, lacan, and the voice
The voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or em...
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Tackling child poverty in latin america
This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. Th...
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Year of the earth serpent changing colors. a novel.
While teaching English in China during the protests prior to Tiananmen Square, Mylex H. Galvin records his experience in his anti-Marco Polo” journal.
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European engagement under review
This timely book seeks to contribute to the debate on the transfer of values, rules, and practices by European actors to former Soviet countries. The actors in focus include multilateral organizations, such as the European Union, the Council of Europe, and the Organization for Security and Cooper...
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Russia's recognition of the independence of abkhazia and south ossetia
The Russian Federation’s official acknowledgement of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in August 2008 has undermined political stability in the Southern Caucasus. This book traces the evolution of Soviet and Russian perspectives on the recognition of new states, explaining why the Kr...
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The seven deadly sins 3.0
The authors open a debate about ethics, science, scepticism, and hypocrisy.
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Jhumpa lahiri's works in transition
What this book seeks to touch upon is how Lahiri’s fictional as well as nonfictional writings bring out her and her fictional characters’ translational and transnational existence
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This issue of the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society is devoted to teaching International Relations during wartime.
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The effects and implications of kazakhstan's adoption of international financial reporting standards
?Despite having an underdeveloped supporting infrastructure and limited resources, Kazakhstan was the first CIS country to require international financial reporting standards in 2004 for banks, and in 2005 for all public companies. What were the economic consequences of this important reform? In ...
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Forum für osteuropäische ideen- und zeitgeschichte
Since 1997, FORUM has been an integral part of the landscape of European studies. In addition to contemporary history, it offers insights into the history of ideas and reviews books on Central and Eastern European history. It offers more than just history—for instance, interdisciplinary discussio...
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A loss
What was once a personal tragedy has become the story of a country. This second edition includes new chapters and a new Foreword by Phillippe Sands.
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Labour super-exploitation, unequal exchange and capital reproduction
The essays in this book discusses Marxist dependency theory by highlighting the particularities of Latin American dependent capitalism.
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State-building in the middle of a geopolitical struggle
Rolando Dromundo presents a political and historical analysis of the state-building processes in Ukraine, Moldova, and the unrecognized Republic of Pridnestrovia from the Soviet fall until 2015, starting with a sketch of the main geopolitical trend that surrounds these polities and its influences...
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Sociology in jokes
Paniotto demonstrates that sociology is interesting and fun. The reader will be able not only to laugh but also to understand the specifics of the sociological approach to analyzing society.
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Anita desai’s india
This book provides an interdisciplinary framework, seamlessly weaving together historical inquiry and literary exploration to offer a holistic understanding of the enduring impacts of Partition.
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Méthod(e)s
The bilingual, French–English journal Méthod(e)s is an African initiative with the objective to enlarge the methodological debates on the Global South. It is not a forum for simple discussions on the mechanics of research but a tool to question social interests influencing academic research and g...
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London’s polish borders
The figure of the Polish plumber or builder has long been a well-established icon of the British national imagination, uncovering the UK's collective unease with immigration from Central and Eastern Europe. But despite the powerful impact the UK's second largest language group has had on their ho...
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How corruption and anti-corruption policies sustain hybrid regimes
Leaders of hybrid regimes in pursuit of political domination and material gain instrumentalize both hidden forms of corruption and public anti-corruption policies. Corruption is pursued for different purposes including cooperation with strategic partners and exclusion of opponents. Presidents use...
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Moving beyond islamist extremism
William Allchorn takes a deep dive into multiple geographical locales and the online space of far-right movements, uncovering the crisis narratives that are animating violent far-right extremist milieus and presenting solutions on what we can do to stop them. This is the first book-length present...
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Geographia literaria
This collection seeks to negotiate with and react to the underlying principle of geopoetics that cuts across varied and at times conflicting schools. From reading geopoetical texts to understanding the idea of the earth in Humboldt and Marx-Engels to the geography of exile, the volume tries to un...
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Aspects of behavioral strategy
In today's dynamic business world, the intersection of traditional strategy and human behavior is more relevant than ever. This volume explores the subtleties of this integration.
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In search of ultimate reality
Using contemporary physics, narrated at a popular science level, Chris Ransford shows why full nothingness—a nothingness within which even the disembodied laws of mathematics would not exist—cannot possibly exist, and what most likely underpins and enables reality.
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Popular is not enough: the political voice of joan baez
Markus Jaeger explores the coalescence of Joan Baez’s work as a singer and songwriter with her endeavors as a political activist throughout the last sixty years. This revised and updated edition includes an additional chapter on Baez’s artistic and political endeavors in the 2010s.
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Ban the bomb!
During the 1950s, Michael Randle helped pioneer a new form of direct action against nuclear war, based on the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. Martin Levy’s interviews with Michael Randle introduce the reader to a tumultuous life that is nothing short of extraordinary.
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The complete guide to children's drawings
This guide for parents and professionals offers ways to better understand the emotional world of children and what is important to them as represented by their drawings. It presents cases of children and adolescents coping with a variety of life challenges and clinical issues by way of over 250 r...
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The new third rome
Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts of nationalism, Jardar Østbø analyzes the content and ideological function of the myth of Russia as a Third Rome. Through case studies of four prominent nationalist intellectuals, Østbø shows how this messianic myth was used to reinvent Russia an...
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Patient safety
In our time of well-publicized health care travails, in the U.S. and the UK and elsewhere, matters of financing too often subsume the dimension of patient care. In his latest book, Alexander L. Gungov studies a vital but neglected aspect of patient safety. Of the thousands of medical errors commi...
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Activity theory
This collection introduces Activity Theory to the current generation of theorists and researchers.
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