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Books by Fellows

A major intellectual activity at the IWM is writing books. These include not only books by internationally renowned scholars but also many a first monograph by junior visiting fellows.

Below, please see a selection of books written by our fellows.

If you are a former fellow and would like to include your book in this list, please contact: publications@iwm.at with details.

	Title	Author	Discipline	Publishing house	Year
	Student Politics in Communist PolandGenerations of Consent and Dissent	Tom Junes	Geschichte / History	Lexington Books	2015	Read more	Authors: Tom Junes Published: Lexington Books, 2015 Student Politics in Communist PolandGenerations of Consent and Dissent Student Politics in Communist Poland tackles the topic of student political activity under a communist regime during the Cold War. Read more

	Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe	Miloš Vec	Geschichte / History Recht / Law	Oxford University Press	2015	Read more	Authors: Miloš Vec Published: Oxford University Press, 2015 Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe ‘Peace’ is often simplistically assumed to be war’s opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Read more
Authors: Miloš Vec Published: Oxford University Press, 2015 Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe ‘Peace’ is often simplistically assumed to be war’s opposite, and as such is not examined closely or critically idealized in the literature of peace studies, its crucial role in the justification of war is often overlooked. Read more
	Black Earth. The Holocaust as History and Warning	Timothy Snyder	Geschichte / History	Tim Duggan Books	2015	Read more	Authors: Timothy Snyder Published: Tim Duggan Books, 2015 Black Earth. The Holocaust as History and Warning In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Read more

	Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953	Timothy Snyder	Geschichte / History	Oxford University Press	2014	Read more	Authors: Timothy Snyder Published: Oxford University Press, 2014 Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953 The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Read more

	The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights	Kristina Stoeckl	Religion / Theology	Routledge	2014	Read more	Authors: Kristina Stoeckl Published: Routledge, 2014 The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church’s views on human rights. Read more
Authors: Kristina Stoeckl Published: Routledge, 2014 The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights This book examines the key 2008 publication of the Russian Orthodox Church on human dignity, freedom, and rights. It considers how the document was formed, charting the development over time of the Russian Orthodox Church’s views on human rights. Read more
	Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest	Ivan Krastev	Politikwissenschaft / Political Science	University of Pennsylvania Press	2014	Read more	Authors: Ivan Krastev Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the “Occupy” movements of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukrai Read more
Authors: Ivan Krastev Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014 Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the “Occupy” movements of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukrai Read more
	Let’s get to Work! The Future of Labour in Europe	János Mátyás Kovács	Wirtschaft / Economics	Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)	2014	Read more	Authors: János Mátyás Kovács Published: Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), 2014 Let’s get to Work! The Future of Labour in Europe János Mátyás Kovács, IWM Permanent Fellow, led a subsection of this major EU FP7-funded research project. His team of researchers examined the cultural construction of a ‘good job’ in four European countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Spain, UK. Read more
Authors: János Mátyás Kovács Published: Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), 2014 Let’s get to Work! The Future of Labour in Europe János Mátyás Kovács, IWM Permanent Fellow, led a subsection of this major EU FP7-funded research project. His team of researchers examined the cultural construction of a ‘good job’ in four European countries: Hungary, Slovakia, Spain, UK. Read more
	Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion	Thomas Carroll	Philosophie / Philosophy	Palgrave Macmillan UK	2014	Read more	Authors: Thomas Carroll Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014 Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. Read more

	Schutzian Phenomenlogy and Hermeneutic Traditions	Michael Staudigl	Philosophie / Philosophy	Springer	2014	Read more	Authors: Michael Staudigl Published: Springer, 2014 Schutzian Phenomenlogy and Hermeneutic Traditions Contributions to Phenomenology, Vol. 68, edited by Michael Staudigl and George Berguno. Read more

	Eseje o Bogu i smierci - Essays About God and Death	Krzysztof Michalski	Philosophie / Philosophy Religion / Theology	Kurhaus Publishing	2014	Read more	Authors: Krzysztof Michalski Published: Kurhaus Publishing, 2014 Eseje o Bogu i smierci - Essays About God and Death Essays About God and Death [Eseje o Bogu i śmierci] is a collection of Krzysztof Michalski’s last essays. They were written over a period of a few years and inspired by the passing of three important and close people: Józef Tischner, Leszek Kołakowski and John Paul II. Read more
Authors: Krzysztof Michalski Published: Kurhaus Publishing, 2014 Eseje o Bogu i smierci - Essays About God and Death Essays About God and Death [Eseje o Bogu i śmierci] is a collection of Krzysztof Michalski’s last essays. They were written over a period of a few years and inspired by the passing of three important and close people: Józef Tischner, Leszek Kołakowski and John Paul II. Read more