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Number of items: 76.
Conflict Research Programme
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2017). Armenia’s election: the status quo wins at the expense of democracy.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (6 February 2017) Answering the age-old question what does democracy mean to those who protest for it? British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2016). Challenging the gospel of neoliberalism?: civil society opposition to mining in Armenia. In Coy, Patrick, G. (Ed.), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (pp. 107-136). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20160000039005
  • Glasius, Marlies, Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Surreptitious symbiosis: engagement between activists and NGOs. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26(6), 2620-2644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9531-5
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Self-determined citizens? New forms of civic activism and citizenship in Armenia. Europe-Asia Studies, 67(8), 1203 - 1227. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2015.1074981
  • Glasius, Marlies, Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Surreptitious symbiosis: the relationship between NGO’s and movement activists. openDemocracy,
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Self-determined citizens? A new wave of civic activism in Armenia. openDemocracy,
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Book review: Linda Milbourne voluntary sector in transition: hard times or new opportunities? Critical Social Policy, 35(1), 158-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018314553545c
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Bechler, Rosemary (2015). The Squares and Beyond.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2014). Neoliberalism and violence: the Big Society and the changing politics of domestic violence in England. Critical Social Policy, 34(3), 333-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018313515973
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2014). Book review: rediscovering voluntary action: the beat of adifferent drum by Colin Rochester.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2014). Engineered civil society: the impact of 20 years of democracy promotion on civil society development in the former Soviet countries. In Beichelt, Timm, Hahn, Irene, Schimmelfennig, Frank (Eds.), Civil society and democracy promotion (pp. 150-170). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2013). Reclaiming democracy in the square: two years on from Occupy London.
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Gyulkhandanyan, Evelina, Manusyan, Sona, Manusyan, Arpy (2013). Civil society, development and environmental activism in Armenia. City Print House.
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Glasius, Marlies, Ali, Irum S. (2013). Reclaiming democracy in the square? Interpreting the movements of 2011-12. Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Flinders, Matthew, Ishkanian, Armine, Lawson, George, Mollett, Amy, Brumley, Cheryl (2012). Democracy and its discontents. audio_file
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2012). From shock therapy to big society: lessons from the post-socialist transitions. In Ishkanian, Armine, Szreter, Simon (Eds.), The Big Society Debate: a New Agenda for Social Welfare? (pp. 168-178). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781002070.00023
  • Szreter, Simon, Ishkanian, Armine (2012). Introduction: what is big society? Contemporary social policy in a historical and comparative perspective. In Szreter, Simon, Ishkanian, Armine (Eds.), The Big Society Debate: a New Agenda for Social Welfare? (pp. 1-24). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781002070.00007
    • European Institute
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2018). The Brexit vote was driven by the losers of globalisation, but that's hardly the whole story. picture_as_pdf
    • Government
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2018). The Brexit vote was driven by the losers of globalisation, but that's hardly the whole story. picture_as_pdf
  • Howell, Jude, Ishkanian, Armine, Obadare, Ebenezer, Seckinelgin, Hakan, Glasius, Marlies (2008). The backlash against civil society in the wake of the Long War on Terror. Development in Practice, 18(1), 82-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614520701778884
    • International Development
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2007). Democracy promotion and civil society. In Albrow, Martin, Glasius, Marlies, Anheier, Helmut K., Kaldor, Mary (Eds.), Global Civil Society 2007/8 : Communicative Power and Democracy (pp. 58-85). Sage Publications Ltd..
    • International Inequalities Institute
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Ooms, Tahnee, van Paassen, Barbara, Kurt-Dickson, Aygen, Puri, Ishita, Spector, Branwen (2026). Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 29(1), 15 - 30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2025.2455967 picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine (6 March 2025) Academic practitioner collaborations can tackle persistent knowledge inequalities, but they need recognition. Impact of Social Sciences Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine (8 May 2024) It's not rocket science: the politics of inequality. LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf
  • Ooms, Tahnee, Klaser, Klaudijo, Ishkanian, Armine (2023). The role of academia practice partnerships in the well-being economy: retracing synergies between health and social sciences using bibliometric analysis. Health Policy, 138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104936 picture_as_pdf
    • International Relations
  • Flinders, Matthew, Ishkanian, Armine, Lawson, George, Mollett, Amy, Brumley, Cheryl (2012). Democracy and its discontents. audio_file
    • LSE
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2018). A revolution of values: freedom, responsibility, and courage in the Armenian Velvet Revolution.
    • LSE IDEAS
  • Flinders, Matthew, Ishkanian, Armine, Lawson, George, Mollett, Amy, Brumley, Cheryl (2012). Democracy and its discontents. audio_file
    • Management
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2004). Home-comings and goings. Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Studies, 13(1).
    • Middle East Centre
  • Howell, Jude, Ishkanian, Armine, Obadare, Ebenezer, Seckinelgin, Hakan, Glasius, Marlies (2008). The backlash against civil society in the wake of the Long War on Terror. Development in Practice, 18(1), 82-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614520701778884
  • Howell, Jude, Ishkanian, Armine, Obadare, Ebenezer, Seckinelgin, Hakan, Glasius, Marlies (2006). The backlash against civil society in the wake of the long war on terror. (Civil Society Working Paper series 26). Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science).
    • School of Public Policy
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2018). The Brexit vote was driven by the losers of globalisation, but that's hardly the whole story. picture_as_pdf
    • Social Policy
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Ooms, Tahnee, van Paassen, Barbara, Kurt-Dickson, Aygen, Puri, Ishita, Spector, Branwen (2026). Hierarchies of knowers and knowledges: exploring the potential of academic practitioner collaborations in tackling knowledge inequalities. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 29(1), 15 - 30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2025.2455967 picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine (8 May 2024) It's not rocket science: the politics of inequality. LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf
  • Ooms, Tahnee, Klaser, Klaudijo, Ishkanian, Armine (2023). The role of academia practice partnerships in the well-being economy: retracing synergies between health and social sciences using bibliometric analysis. Health Policy, 138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104936 picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Khalatyan, Mariam, Manusyan, Arpy, Margaryan, Nvard (2023). Why ideas matter: exploring the potential and limits of local civil society agency in peacebuilding. Journal of Civil Society, 19(2), 193 - 211. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2023.2206156 picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2022). Social movements and social policy: new research horizons. Journal of Social Policy, 51(3), 582 - 595. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279421001008 picture_as_pdf
  • Shutes, Isabel, Ishkanian, Armine (2022). Transnational welfare within and beyond the nation-state: civil society responses to the migration crisis in Greece. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(3), 524 - 541. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.1892479 picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Shutes, Isabel (2021). Who needs the experts? The politics and practices of alternative humanitarianism in Greece and its relationship to NGOs. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-021-00354-6 picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine (8 October 2020) Why peace looks a long way off in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Peña Saavedra, Anita (2019). The politics and practices of intersectional prefiguration in social movements: the case of Sisters Uncut. Sociological Review, 67(5), 985 - 1001. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118822974 picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2019). Social movements, Brexit, and social policy. Social Policy and Society, 18(1), 147-159. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746418000404
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2018). Armenia’s unfinished revolution. Current History, 117(801), 271-276.
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Glasius, Marlies (2018). Resisting neoliberalism? Movements against austerity and for democracy in Cairo, Athens and London. Critical Social Policy, 38(3), 527-546. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018318762452
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2018). The square and beyond: trajectories and implications of the square occupations. In Peeren, E, Celikates, R, de Kloet, J, Poell, T (Eds.), Global cultures of contestation: mobility, sustainability, aesthetics & connectivity (pp. 27-48). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63982-6 picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2017). From consensus to dissensus: the politics of anti-austerity activism in London and its relationship to voluntary organisations. Journal of Civil Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2017.1389843
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Glasius, Marlies (2017). What does democracy mean? Activist views and practices in Athens, Cairo, London and Moscow. Democratization, 24(6), 1006 - 1024. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2016.1256874
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2017). Armenia’s election: the status quo wins at the expense of democracy.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2017). Book review: Փոփոխության Որոնումներ (Quest for Change), Socioscope NGO by Anna Zhamakochyan, Zhanna Andreasyan, Sona Manusyan, and Arpy Manusyan (2016). Caucasus Analytical Digest, 91, 11-13.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (6 February 2017) Answering the age-old question what does democracy mean to those who protest for it? British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2016). Challenging the gospel of neoliberalism?: civil society opposition to mining in Armenia. In Coy, Patrick, G. (Ed.), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (pp. 107-136). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-786X20160000039005
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2016). From civil disobedience to armed violence: political developments in Armenia. openDemocracy,
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2016). Ինքնորուշված Քաղաքացիներ. քաղակացիական ակտիվիզմի նոր ալիքը Հայաստանում (Ink’nowrowšvaç K’aġak’ac’iner. k’aġakac’iakan aktivizmi nor alik’ë Hayastanowm). In Zhamakochyan, Anna, Manusyan, Arpy, Andreasyan, Zhanna, Manusyan, Sona (Eds.), Պայքարի Փորձեր (Payk’ari P’orjer) (pp. 65-77). Socioscope.
  • Glasius, Marlies, Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Surreptitious symbiosis: engagement between activists and NGOs. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26(6), 2620-2644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-014-9531-5
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Self-determined citizens? New forms of civic activism and citizenship in Armenia. Europe-Asia Studies, 67(8), 1203 - 1227. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2015.1074981
  • Glasius, Marlies, Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Surreptitious symbiosis: the relationship between NGO’s and movement activists. openDemocracy,
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Self-determined citizens? A new wave of civic activism in Armenia. openDemocracy,
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2015). Book review: Linda Milbourne voluntary sector in transition: hard times or new opportunities? Critical Social Policy, 35(1), 158-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018314553545c
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Bechler, Rosemary (2015). The Squares and Beyond.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2014). Neoliberalism and violence: the Big Society and the changing politics of domestic violence in England. Critical Social Policy, 34(3), 333-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018313515973
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2014). Book review: rediscovering voluntary action: the beat of adifferent drum by Colin Rochester.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2014). Engineered civil society: the impact of 20 years of democracy promotion on civil society development in the former Soviet countries. In Beichelt, Timm, Hahn, Irene, Schimmelfennig, Frank (Eds.), Civil society and democracy promotion (pp. 150-170). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2013). Reclaiming democracy in the square: two years on from Occupy London.
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Gyulkhandanyan, Evelina, Manusyan, Sona, Manusyan, Arpy (2013). Civil society, development and environmental activism in Armenia. City Print House.
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Glasius, Marlies, Ali, Irum S. (2013). Reclaiming democracy in the square? Interpreting the movements of 2011-12. Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Flinders, Matthew, Ishkanian, Armine, Lawson, George, Mollett, Amy, Brumley, Cheryl (2012). Democracy and its discontents. audio_file
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2012). Book review: Citizens’ initiatives in Europe: procedures and consequences of agenda-setting by citizens.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2012). Book review: how much impact are protests across Europe really having on re-setting the political agenda?
  • Szreter, Simon, Ishkanian, Armine (2012). What is Big Society?: contemporary social policy in an historical and comparative perspective. In Ishkanian, Armine, Szreter, Simon (Eds.), The Big Society Debate: a New Agenda for Social Welfare? (pp. 1-24). Edward Elgar.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2012). From 'shock therapy' to the 'Big Society': lessons from the post-socialist transitions. In Ishkanian, Armine, Szreter, Simon (Eds.), The Big Society Debate: a New Agenda for Social Welfare? (pp. 168-178). Edward Elgar.
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Szreter, Simon (Eds.) (2012). The big society debate: a new agenda for social welfare? Edward Elgar.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2012). Democracy building and civil society in post-soviet Armenia. Routledge.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2012). From shock therapy to big society: lessons from the post-socialist transitions. In Ishkanian, Armine, Szreter, Simon (Eds.), The Big Society Debate: a New Agenda for Social Welfare? (pp. 168-178). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781002070.00023
  • Szreter, Simon, Ishkanian, Armine (2012). Introduction: what is big society? Contemporary social policy in a historical and comparative perspective. In Szreter, Simon, Ishkanian, Armine (Eds.), The Big Society Debate: a New Agenda for Social Welfare? (pp. 1-24). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781002070.00007
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2012). To dream the impossible dream.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2011). Liberation technology: dreams, politics, history. Open Democracy,
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2009). Local solutions for global problems: the challenges encountered by the anti-domestic violence campaign in Armenia. In Shirwadkar, Swati (Ed.), Family Violence in India : Human Rights, Issues, Actions, and International Comparisons (pp. 441-468). Rawat Books.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2009). Nonprofit organizations, comparative perspectives. In Anheier, Helmut K., Toepler, Stefan (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (pp. 1091-1095). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2009). Nonprofit sector and poverty reduction. In Anheier, Helmut K., Toepler, Stefan (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (pp. 1099-1103). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2009). (Re)claiming the emancipatory potential of civil society: a critical examination of civil society and democracy building programs in Armenia since 1991. Armenian Review, 51(1-4), 9-34.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2008). Democracy contested: Armenia’s fifth presidential elections. Open Democracy,
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2008). Democracy building and civil society in post-soviet Armenia. Routledge.
  • Howell, Jude, Ishkanian, Armine, Obadare, Ebenezer, Seckinelgin, Hakan, Glasius, Marlies (2008). The backlash against civil society in the wake of the Long War on Terror. Development in Practice, 18(1), 82-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614520701778884
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2007). Democracy promotion and civil society. In Albrow, Martin, Glasius, Marlies, Anheier, Helmut K., Kaldor, Mary (Eds.), Global Civil Society 2007/8 : Communicative Power and Democracy (pp. 58-85). Sage Publications Ltd..
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2007). En-gendering civil society and democracy building: the anti-domestic violence campaign in Armenia. Social Politics, 14(4), 488-525. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxm020
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2007). Gender mainstreaming in the context of Europe, Central Asia and the CIS: regional challenges. In Dolata, Nadja (Ed.), Gender Mainstreaming in Practice: a Toolkit (pp. 13-20). UNDP.
  • Ishkanian, Armine, Lewis, Jane (2007). Gender, civil society and participation: introduction to the special issue of Social Politics. Social Politics, 14(4), 407-414.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2006). From inclusion to exclusion: Armenian NGOs participation in the PRSP. Journal of International Development, 18(5), 729-740. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1301
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2006). Social policy and development in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Central Asian Survey, 25(4), 373-385. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634930701210492
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2006). Social policy in Central Asia: special issue. Central Asian Survey, 25(4).
  • Howell, Jude, Ishkanian, Armine, Obadare, Ebenezer, Seckinelgin, Hakan, Glasius, Marlies (2006). The backlash against civil society in the wake of the long war on terror. (Civil Society Working Paper series 26). Centre for Civil Society (London School of Economics and Political Science).
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2005). Book review: Chechnya: life in a war-torn society. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 11(2), 378-379. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00241.x
  • Hasanov, Avaz, Ishkanian, Armine (2005). Bridging divides: civil society peacebuilding initiatives. Accord: an International Review of Peace Initiatives, 17, 44-47.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2005). Diaspora and global civil society: the impact of transnational diasporic activism on Armenia's post-Soviet transition. In Atabaki, Touraj, Mehendale, Sanjyot (Eds.), Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora (pp. 113-139). Routledge.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2004). Armenians. In Ember, Carol R, Ember, Melvin (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures (pp. 265-273). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2004). Gendered transitions: the impact of the post-Soviet transition on women in central Asia and the Caucasus. In Amineh, Mehdi P., Houweling, Henk (Eds.), Central Eurasia in Global Politics: Conflict, Security and Development (pp. 161-184). Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2004). Working at the local-global intersection: the challenges facing women in Armenia's NGO sector. In Kuehnast, Kathleen, Nechemias, Carol (Eds.), Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition: Nation-Building, Economic Survival, and Civic Activism (pp. 262-287). Johns Hopkins University. Press.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2003). Gendered transitions: the impact of the post-Soviet transition on women in central Asia and the Caucasus. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 2(3-4), 475- 496. https://doi.org/10.1163/156915003322986361
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2003). Importing civil society? The emergence of Armenia's NGO sector and the impact of Western aid on its development. Armenian Forum: a Journal of Contemporary Affairs, 3(1), 7-36.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2003). Is the personal political? The development of Armenia's NGO sector during the post-soviet period. (Berkeley program in Soviet and post-Soviet studies working paper series 2003 03-ishk). Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California at Berkeley.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2003). Promoting local approaches to global problems: a reply to my interlocutors. Armenian Forum: a Journal of Contemporary Affairs, 3(1), 69-75.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2003-01-01) Training of trainers: the impact of Western experts on local NGO activism in Armenia [Paper]. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, CAN.
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2003). Women in Armenia. In Walter, Lynn (Ed.), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide: Europe (pp. 33-44). Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc..
  • Ishkanian, Armine (2002). Mobile motherhood: Armenian women's labor migration in the post-Soviet period. Diaspora, 11(3), 383-415.