On July 24, 2015, a panel of four IDI members – Vamik D. Volkan, M.D., M. Gerard Fromm, Ph.D., Ford Rowan, J.D., and Edward Shapiro, M.D. – presented at the 49th Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association in Boston Massachusetts. The theme of the conference was “A Changing World: The Shape and Use of Psychoanalytic … Read More
Writing in the May 2015 Turkish Review, IDI President Vamik Volkan offers a critique of Stefan Ihrig’s book “Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination.” Dr. Volkan’s critique can be read here. Interested readers are invited to contact Dr. Volkan via this website to learn more. Unless otherwise noted, IDI Blog Posts represent the opinions and/or work of individual IDI … Read More
IDI Vice President Lord John Alderdice, working with the Rt. Honourable Jeffrey Donaldson, Liam Maskey and Eva Grosman, has established a Centre for Democracy and Peacebuilding in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Centre aims “to support the Northern Ireland peace process and at the same time share [founders’] experience with the international community.” The CDP will shortly be … Read More
IDI Fellow B. Senem Cevik has co-edited, with Philip Seib, Vice Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC, the first-ever volume on Turkish Public Diplomacy, available from Palgrave MacMillan in September 2015. From the publisher: With its complex political history, its strategic location, and its determination to play a larger role … Read More
Vice-President of IDI, Lord Alderdice, has been presented with the 2015 Liberal International, Prize for Freedom, by LI President, Dr Juli Minoves, at a ceremony in Zurich in June in the presence of many liberal politicians from around the world. The annual Prize for Freedom is Liberal International’s highest recognition and has been awarded each … Read More