Ivelin Sardamov
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivelin Sardamov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivelin |
| FAMILY NAME | Sardamov |
| SIGNATURE | SARDAMOV I |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Bulgaria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Out of Touch
The schism between positivism and interpretivism in the social sciences is usually explained by the explicit epistemological and methodological commitments of social scientists and philosophers. It can be better understood, though, as a collision between two contrasting cognitive modes and sensibilities, rooted in the predominant recruitment of two distinct networks in the human brain. Since the activation of these networks is negatively correlat…
Burnt into the Brain
The current US administration has made the promotion of ‘political and economic freedom’ overseas a cornerstone of its foreign policy doctrine. The underlying notion that human beings all over the world can be chiefly motivated by a desire for personal liberty seems a noble but hardly realistic ideal. Such motivation is fostered by processes of social modernization and individualization. These changes are linked not only to structural transformat…
Civil Society’ and the Limits of Democratic Assistance
A correlation between the strength of civil society and democratization is often assumed to imply a causal relationship between the two variables. In fact, this correlation may be spurious, both phenomena being shaped by deeper social processes related to modernization and individualization. An excessive focus on ‘civil society assistance’ may paradoxically hamper the deeper changes necessary for the development of a vigorous associational life a…
Austrian Maps and Bulgarian Territorial Claims
(2001). Austrian Maps and Bulgarian Territorial Claims. National Identities: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 187-189
Austrian Maps and Bulgarian Territorial Claims
Identity's role in the Serbo‐Croatian conflict
After the celebrations prompted by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the promised “end of history” has once again been indefinitely postponed in recent years. This change of prospects has been signaled most tangibly by the rapid resurfacing of nationalist movements and ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world. The media have been flooded with images of the prolonged agony of millions of people in places such as the former…
The Turks of Bulgaria
In his recently published article, “The Turks of Bulgaria: The Struggle for National-Religious Survival of a Muslim Minority,” Kemal H. Karpat addresses an important and sensitive topic. The manner in which he undertakes to explore it, however, leaves much to be desired
Civil Society’ and the Limits of Democratic Assistance
A correlation between the strength of civil society and democratization is often assumed to imply a causal relationship between the two variables. In fact, this correlation may be spurious, both phenomena being shaped by deeper social processes related to modernization and individualization. An excessive focus on ‘civil society assistance’ may paradoxically hamper the deeper changes necessary for the development of a vigorous associational life a…
Burnt into the Brain
The current US administration has made the promotion of ‘political and economic freedom’ overseas a cornerstone of its foreign policy doctrine. The underlying notion that human beings all over the world can be chiefly motivated by a desire for personal liberty seems a noble but hardly realistic ideal. Such motivation is fostered by processes of social modernization and individualization. These changes are linked not only to structural transformat…
The Turks of Bulgaria
In his recently published article, “The Turks of Bulgaria: The Struggle for National-Religious Survival of a Muslim Minority,” Kemal H. Karpat addresses an important and sensitive topic. The manner in which he undertakes to explore it, however, leaves much to be desired
Identity's role in the Serbo‐Croatian conflict
After the celebrations prompted by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the promised “end of history” has once again been indefinitely postponed in recent years. This change of prospects has been signaled most tangibly by the rapid resurfacing of nationalist movements and ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe and other parts of the world. The media have been flooded with images of the prolonged agony of millions of people in places such as the former…
Austrian Maps and Bulgarian Territorial Claims
(2001). Austrian Maps and Bulgarian Territorial Claims. National Identities: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 187-189
Austrian Maps and Bulgarian Territorial Claims
Civil Society’ and the Limits of Democratic Assistance
A correlation between the strength of civil society and democratization is often assumed to imply a causal relationship between the two variables. In fact, this correlation may be spurious, both phenomena being shaped by deeper social processes related to modernization and individualization. An excessive focus on ‘civil society assistance’ may paradoxically hamper the deeper changes necessary for the development of a vigorous associational life a…
Burnt into the Brain
The current US administration has made the promotion of ‘political and economic freedom’ overseas a cornerstone of its foreign policy doctrine. The underlying notion that human beings all over the world can be chiefly motivated by a desire for personal liberty seems a noble but hardly realistic ideal. Such motivation is fostered by processes of social modernization and individualization. These changes are linked not only to structural transformat…
Out of Touch
The schism between positivism and interpretivism in the social sciences is usually explained by the explicit epistemological and methodological commitments of social scientists and philosophers. It can be better understood, though, as a collision between two contrasting cognitive modes and sensibilities, rooted in the predominant recruitment of two distinct networks in the human brain. Since the activation of these networks is negatively correlat…
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (2 works) · Bulgarian (2 works)