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The Ukrainian crisis provoked controversial behaviors in Eastern Europe. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its support for the rebel republics revealed specific interests, which focus on regaining control over the area rather than economic profits or political stability whereas Central European actors target at building a buffer zone including Ukraine. The situation is equally intelligible in terms...
Elections to the European Parliament (EP), because of its role in establishing the legal order in member states of the European Union (EU), should become increasingly crucial among all the direct elections in which Poles participate in our country’s political system. But the results of analyses carried out by various research institutions indicate that, in Polish public opinion, the elections to...
The article analyzes the attitude of the Bulgarian population against immigrants, which is expressed in its protest activities, in the media, scientific and other public appearances of celebrities. Furthermore, analyzes attitudes towards the problems with immigrants of the main Bulgarian political parties
There were a few thousand Polish communists in Soviet Russia in the first years after the October Revolution. The Polish Bureau of Agitation and Propaganda at the Russian Communist Party [Bolsheviks] – the so-called Polbiuro – was the most important agenda of Polish communists. This article concerns the position of Polish communists in the Soviet state, their role in the Polish-Bolshevik War, activity...
Drawing empirically on the examples of the Church of Latter-Day Saints’ (Mormon) participation in anti-ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) ratification campaign and its latest attempts to influence other political issues of moral consequences (such as same-sex marriage) in the United States, the paper attempts to analyse the dynamics of a contemporary religiously motivated political movement.Despite being,...
The paper examines in a three-folded way the media developments in Bulgaria during the last quarter of a century in several aspects: political, legal, technological, social and professional. It also discusses some major political and social implications of the new roles of the audiences viewed through the prism of pre-election campaigning and public activism. The text examines some main challenges...
The purpose of this paper is to report on how elected representatives perceive the current status and role of municipal council in governing process. The particular attention is paid to the impact of the introduced in 2002 leadership reform and influence of new participatory framework on council’s position and say. The paper draws on empirical data collected in municipalities of Lubelskie region under...
The present essay aims to contribute to the contemporary debate on what the most appropriate approach for political historiography is. In it, three approaches are outlined as the most influential and widespread today: philosophico-methodological historicism, contextualism, and the paradigmatic approach. The paradigmatic approach is investigated with respect to its nature, contents and heuristic parameters,...
The idea of the “One Belt, One Road” will promote the China as a soft power and attractive player in the global market. It is related to China’s perception of global changes brought about by financial crisis, and growing world-wide interdependence. Beijing’s initiative aims on the potential for increased economic exchanges between China and Europe. In fact, the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) can be called...
In this article, an author proves that devolution based on the national identity fosters political development in Wales. The main historical facts are briefly recalled, coming smoothly to Tony Blair’s reforms and their partly failure. Author considers them as irreversible process’ elements, later continued by David Cameron who saw them as vital to awake national identity of Wales. Such efforts finally...
This paper analyses the political career of a key executive body in the Slovenian local self-government system – the mayor. The paper first introduces incumbency advantage theories. These theories argue that the probability of electoral victory or defeat is not homogeneously distributed among the candidates, as several factors influence the possibilities of success of some candidates and the failure...
The objective of the present paper is an attempt at viewing the European Neighbourhood Policy, and especially the Eastern Partnership, from the EU’s standpoint and from the international perspective as well. The situation in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood (Russia-Ukraine war) drives EU decision-makers to focus merely on stabilisation and de facto stagnation. The decision-makers are not willing to...
Wielka Wojna to „konflikt zbrojny, który radykalnie zmienił oblicze dziewiętnastowiecznego świata”. Dawny porządek spokoju i nadziei rozpadł się. Nic, co wydawało się trwałe i niezmienne, po tym wielkim starciu nie wróciło już na swoje miejsce, nie było już bowiem żadnego „swojego miejsca”. Polska w chwili wybuchu Wielkiej Wojny pozostawała pod zaborami, podzielona pomiędzy Rosję, Niemcy i Austrię,...
Dyscypliny naukowe różnią się od siebie pod wieloma względami, przede wszystkim różnicują je zasadnicze problemy i odrębne metody badawcze. Nauka o polityce jako dyscyplina jest definiowana głównymi problemami badawczymi, przez utrwalanie „polityki” we wszystkich niezliczonych formach. Polityka przyjmuje wiele form i obejmuje wiele poziomów społecznych, począwszy od klanów i plemion tradycyjnych społeczeństw,...
European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) was introduced as one of the objectives of EU cohesion policy in the 2007-2013 financial perspective. Regulations adopted for the 2014-2020 period means both the continuation of certain previously proven solutions, and the introduction of – a more or less significant – changes resulting from the evaluation experience of previous years. The purpose of this article...
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