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The main thesis of the article is as follows: war shares a lasting and unbreakable bond with human life and state politics and, despite the Utopian dreams of never-ending peace, conflicts are the sine qua non building blocks of a country’s policy and the development of the human race. Why? Because a state is an imperfect, yet the most perfect among the civilisationally achievable means of organising...
The article presents the history of the apostolic nunciature in Poland throughout history and Polish-Vatican relations. The operation of Vatican diplomacy is also explained, on the basis of diplomatic law and principles, such as the principle of precedence. A list of all apostolic nuncios in Poland from the beginning of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Vatican was also presented. Among...
The intense period of Craxi’s government (1983-1987) was characterised by a new, even unique activity of Italy on the international scene. In that very period, the country tried to assume a role guaranteeing the “international concert”, significantly weakened earlier by the mechanisms of the Cold War. The goal of this new policy of détente was – both for Bettino Craxi and the Minister of Foreign Affairs,...
The LGBT rights are lately one of the aspects of a social and political discourse both in the Russian Federation and in Ukraine. In these countries of a common historical heritage there are some analogies in the perspective on human rights and their realization. It may be also noted that the LGBT rights have become an instrument of politics. In the following article the authors present a comparative...
The article presents the basic assumptions of qualitative research and the possibilities of their application in social (political) sciences. To achieve this goal, is the interview method was chosen. In the first part, basic information about the interview method will be recalled. The idea of research practice based on the story of Halcolm’s ‘master’. In the second part selected individual interview...
The subject of the article concerns the determinations of choices made by a person and their sources. Upon analysing the concepts that have appeared in social sciences to date, three model approaches were distinguished: (1) voluntarism, which assumed a lack of determination and pure volition of the source of the decision; (2) internal determinism, which searches for the source of the decision in factors...
In this article, the author discusses the expansion of the principle of disclosure in parts of the state’s security policy which regard screening procedures that make it possible to access classified information by those interested in the work or service in particular public spheres. To reduce the risk of the state organs making decisions based on extra-substantive factors, the author postulates to...
The author of the article tries to indicate the relationship between the perceived presence of the Catholic Church in public life and the election preferences of Poles. The subject of the research here is the parliamentary elections in Poland in 2011 in the context of the perception by the electorate of the individual parties of the public presence of the Catholic Church in the selected aspects. Among...
The article shows discourse about poverty in Gazeta Wyborcza in 2018. The author stresss out two ways of presenting that issue by the symbolic elites in that famous Polish newspaper. First of them involves structural reasons contected with poverty and emphasies solidarity with poor people. Second approach is dominated by argumentation with individual causes of being poor, contains neoliberal ideology...
Professor Jerzy Regulski played a key role in the process of building the self-government of the Third Polish Republic. He initiated his work on the self-government system as a part of the “Experience and Future” seminar on the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. During the period of the Polish Peoples Republic, the implementation of the developed opinions and assumptions was not possible. However, they...
The article begins with a succinct characteristic of the political position of the Council of Ministers as determined by the Constitution of the Republic of Poland dated 2 April 1997. The next portion of the text discusses the constitutional program of the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość [PiS, Eng. Law and Justice] party in 2003. It is an introduction to presenting the suggested political position of the government...
The article presents the main ideological and theoretic assumptions of non-representative democracy, having historically strongly left-wing character, not an easy practice of applying this form of democracy in Polish and European conditions. The author tries to indicate a certain dialectic dualism of direct democracy, which more and more often constitutes contemporary crisis of liberal democracy in...
For many decades after II World War the differentiation of political standpoints and attitudes in modern societies could be described according to a normal curve (bell curve). But for several years this interpretation has become inadequate because of the increasing polarization of political preferences in contemporary societies, leading to bipolar opposition inside them. The explanation of this change...
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