Форматът "16+1" и "новата скрита вълна на синофобия" в ЕС

Author(s): Nako R. Stefanov / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2019

Against the backdrop of the “One Belt, One Road” Initiative, the “16 + 1” format, fostering cooperation between China and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE countries), has become an important project. The striving and desire to interact on the base of the formula of equal co-operation (win-win development) promise favorable prospects. Unfortunately, however, in recent years there started a phenomenon within the EU, which we can definitely call a “New Wave of “Sinophobia”. Although so far it is hidden, this phenomenon is undoubtedly beginning to negatively affect the “16 + 1” format. In the report, we are trying to find out what the roots of this “New Wave of “Sinophobia” are? Another key objective is to think about what should be the response of this negative shadow on cooperation under the “16 + 1” format.

Форматът "16+1", "Един пояс, един път" и българското не/участие

Author(s): Iskra Mandova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2018

“One Belt, One Road” (OBOR), “Belt and Road” (B&R), “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI), The Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-century Maritime Silk Road are some of the names of the large-scale geopolitical project, which was launched by the Chinese government after the serious changes in the international situation. It aims to strengthen the cooperation between the countries involved, given the slow pace of recovery from the global economic crisis. President Xi Jinping managed to organize and coordinate the support of Russia and the entire Eurasian Economic Union (Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan), the members of ASEAN, of Turkey with its project “The Central Corridor”, of Mongolia with its road investment program and Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC), of Vietnam with “Two Corridors and One Economic Circle” plan, of Poland with “Amber Road” and even the UK with its strategy Northern Powerhouse. A broad diplomatic activity is going on to reconcile the principles and opportunities of the initiative with Laos, Cambodia, Hungary and also with over 40 other countries and international organizations. A lot of European countries also have already stated their willingness and intent to implement investment projects without EU involvement. What is Bulgaria doing in the modern geopolitical situation and did Bulgaria miss the Chinese train?

Форми и политически инструменти за стратегическо направляване на образователни институции и спортни организации

Author(s): Ivan Sandanski / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 6/2017

The article sets out to unpack the modes of governance and related policy instruments for steering educational establishments and sport organisations employed by the Sofia municipality Department of Prevention, Integration, Sport and Tourism (DPIST). These instigate a process of institutionalization the actions and behaviours of local schools, kindergartens, sport clubs, youth organisations, and various social groups participating in DPIST funded or supported projects and sport initiatives. Four primary modes of strategic steering are identified including coercion, voluntarism, targeting and framework regulation. The process of steering collective actions, policies and resources is premised on creating a system of institutionalized rules. In fact, such a process takes hybrid forms. The key mechanism for achieving both the strategic and sport policy intentions of Sofia municipality has been the machinery of project management. It is also demonstrated that the pursuit of the new promoted vision envisaging Sofia as a vibrant city of juvenile, active and innovative people where sport, in combination with education, volunteering and entrepreneurship, is seen as the key means and agent of social change, however, requires a proactive forward thinking and strategic approach. It is directed towards pursuing some future, but still unknown desired state in terms of necessary social time, space and projection. Due to this uncertainty Sofia municipality reasonably has relied on a set of already tested in the social practice sources of reasoning and mechanisms of cognitive knowledge and social interventions.

Форми на границата на държавността - конфедерации, "конфедерални конфедерации" и международни режими с конфедерален характер

Author(s): Martin Belov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2008

Confederations are a form of political organization located on the border of statehood. They are an intermediate phenomenon, located between states with a federal form of government and international organizations. The theory lacks overlapping consensus as to whether confederations are a variation of the state or international organizations. The main reason for this is the lack of established criteria. to qualify, respectively, to de-qualify political systems as confederations.

Форми на централизацията и децентрализацията

Author(s): Tsvetan Sivkov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

Centralization and decentralization are manifestations of the methods of structuring and functioning of state government and the society. The article represents to the professional community one of the possible views for theorizing significant issues of the system and philosophy of state government. It considers the criteria, prerequisites and procedural forms of centralization and decentralization.

ФОРМИРАНЕ НА ПОЛИТИКАТА ЗА СИГУРНОСТ И ОТБРАНА

Проблеми и възможни решения

Author(s): Iliya Nalbantov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

The article presents a possible model for the formation of state policy in the security and defense sector. This model is based on the achievement of public consensus in shaping state policy by improving organization and effectiveness in the activity of the Consultative National Security Council by the President.

Формування та реалізація бюджетної політики в умовах розвитку інноваційної економіки

Author(s): Halyna Palchevych,A. Mogiley / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 22/2012

The paper investigated the role of fiscal policy as an important component of the system of state regulation of innovative economic development. The analysis of the main aspects of development and implementation of fiscal policy in Ukraine. Identified priority areas for the construction of an effective fiscal policy.

ФРАГМЕНТИ СЛИКЕ ЕВРОПСКЕ МИГРАНТСКЕ КРИЗЕ У ДНЕВНОЈ ШТАМПИ СРБИЈЕ

Author(s): Zoran B. Jevtović,Predrag Bajić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 4/2019

Although the European migrant crisis has not finished, it is rarely on the front pages, with only occasional reminders that it is still present. In this way, the stories of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers remained out of public focus, although they were numerous in time when the crisis was at its peak. By using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the authors researched the ways in which migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are highlighted as individuals on the front pages of Serbian daily newspapers (Politika, Danas, Večernje novosti, Blic, Kurir, Alo and Informer) between the beginning of 2015 and the end of the first half of 2018, as well as how the image about them in this context was upgraded, confirmed or changed. During the research, two directions were clearly noticed - indicating a humanitarian character on the one hand and a security aspect on the other. The results also point to the difference between the dominant narratives in the tabloids and in the quality press. Unlike the sensationalist discourse in tabloids, mixed with fear and panic, or a quick excitement of the readers, quality press is developing the human aspect of the migrant crisis, with elements of critical research.

Французская дискуссия на тему границ Европы

Author(s): Agata Kołakowska / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1 (18)/2006

ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ХРИСТИАНСКАЯ ДЕМОКРАТИЯ В 60-Е ГОДЫ XX ВЕКА: ПРОБЛЕМЫ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ

Author(s): Dmitry Viktorovich Shmelev / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2015

The paper deals with the transformation of the French Christian democracy in the 1960s: the emergence of new structures, ideological evolution, and political strategy. The relationship between Christian democracy and the main political currents (Gaullism and Socialism), reaction of the Christian Democrats to the major political crises in France, role played by the center in political life, and inner problems in the functioning of Christian democracy are observed.

Фуко за властта и управляването

Author(s): Paul Patton / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2016

This paper examines the transformation in Foucault’s conception of power that began in 1976 and concluded with his definition of power as action on the action of others in 1982. His 1976 lectures raise series of questions about the nature of power: what is power? How is it exercised? Is it ultimately a relation of force? Only some of these questions are answered in the course of these lectures. Foucault’s answer to the question about the nature of power and the appropriate means to analyze it is not forthcoming until “The Subject and Power” in 1982. I argue that the new definition of power offered reflects the discovery of governmentality in 1978 and the lectures on liberal and neoliberal governmentality that followed. I conclude with some remarks about the consequences of this new conception of power for Foucault’s approach and for his analysis of neoliberal governmental power.

Фуко за употребите на лъжата

Author(s): Stiliyan Yotov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2016

The interest in the genealogy and in the history of power shared by Foucault and Nietzsche raises the question about the status and the meaning of lying in Foucault’s work. This article is an effort to reconstruct his attitude to this topic, which appears in many places of the discussion but everywhere overshadowed by other problems, especially by those of the truth. It’s the turn in Foucault’s understanding of the truth what motivates me to split the text in two parts. In the first I trace out the stage of his studies devoted to the transgression by which the Self could achieve certainty in itself. But the main accent stresses the discovering of Nietzsche, made by Foucault, against the background of his own conception of knowledge management. No doubt that the following syntheses between power and knowledge leads to temptations to recognize the uses of lying as a justified tool, what Foucault finds out by himself in some praxis of psychotherapy, but also denounces as delusive and counterproductive. The second part deals with the changes in Foucault’s genealogy, occurring with the reevaluation of the governmentality as a different kind of power exercises and uses of truth. Here I reconstruct the appearance of a series of new concepts, constructed and experimentally implemented by Foucault, which helps to discover the main moments of the so called “subjectification” as a peculiar reshaping of the borders between true and untrue. The culmination of this part is devoted to the practices, in which the authenticity presupposes (increasingly) personal disclosure and fearlessness and, on this ground, the use of half-lies and half-truths seems permissible because in the end it doesn’t mix truth with lie.

Фуко и интелектуалната история: Интервю на Антоанета Колева със Стюарт Елдън по повод на книгата му "Последното десетилетие на Фуко" (2016)

Author(s): Stuart Elden,Antoaneta Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2016

Фуко, историята на истината и геналогията на модерния субект

Author(s): Daniele Lorenzini / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3-4/2016

This article explores the articulation between two of the main projects that characterise Michel Foucault’s work in the 1970s and the 1980s: the project of a history of truth and the project of a genealogy of the modern subject. After addressing the meaning and ethico-political value of Foucault’s history of truth, focusing above all on the shape it takes in 1980 (namely, a genealogy of a series of “regimes of truth” in Western societies), it offers an analysis of the related project of a genealogy of the modern (Western) subject, and more precisely of Foucault’s account of the processes of subjection (assujettissement) and subjectivation (subjectivation) within the Christian and the modern Western regimes of truth. It eventually argues that the essential political and moral issue that Foucault raises is not whether the subject is autonomous or not, but rather whether he or she is willing to become a subject of critique by opposing the governmental mechanisms of power which try to govern him or her within our contemporary regime of truth and striving to invent new ways of living and being.

ФУКУЈАМИН КОНЦЕПТ ДРЖАВЕ, ДРУШТВА И МЕЂУНАРОДНИХ ОДНОСА

Author(s): Srđan Slović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 4/2014

Фукујамина теза о „крају историје“ није чисто његов изум, већ позајмљен од Хегела и интерпретатора његових мисли Александра Кожева. На његово теоретско стваралаштво су утицали и Арон, Вебер, Маркс и Токвил. Базирајући се на Хегелу, Фукујама је закључио да је историјски развој водио ослобођењу човечанства, а економски и политички развој су омогућили стварање универзалног друштва заснованог на принципима либералне демократије, што је омогућило човечанству да досегне „крај историје“. Тај крај се инкарнира у универзалној и хомогеној држави, која је добила своје признање јер је однос господара и слуге подигла на универзални ниво. Ова оптимистичка визија је ублажена Ничеовим појмом „последњег човека“, јер и сам појам „крај историје“ не значи крај у дословном смислу, већ се узима као камен-међаш између хладноратовског и послехладноратовског периода људске историје. Фукујама је свестан чињенице да демократија може имати и теже последице по човека, јер је савремени човек спутан да покаже своју вредност у политичко-правном систему који је створио. Марксови ставови су му помогли да схвати значај економског развитка и његов утицај на друштвене односе, а Вебер и Арон су му помогли да схвати значај рационалних поступака и идеологије у међународним односима. Однос између господара и слуге заједно са економском рационализацијом света утиче и на преображај односа између држава. Најзад, Фукујамина теорија је подложна критици због своје контроверзности, али и површног тумачења од стране самих критичара. У критици се посебно истакао Хантингтон својом теоријом о сукобу цивилизација.

Фундаментализми, криза сигурности и толеранција у глобалном контексту: Нигеријско искуство

Author(s): Igboin Benson Ohihon / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2012

In recent times, the resurgence of critical security questions has gained prominence in global tabloid, consciousness and discourse. From Tunisia, Alge-ria, Egypt, Libya, Yemen to Syria; the Nigerian experiences of the Golden Jubilee Independence bombing, for which MEND claimed responsibility, the Boko Haram incendiary that has gravitated into suicide bombing, among others are extant. The causes of these ‘security crises’ can be traced squarely to fundamentalisms: religious fundamentalism or religious nationalism; hegemonic fundamentalism, capitalist fundamentalism, ethnic fundamentalism, existential fundamentalism, ethical fundamentalism, etc. These explain the deepening and proliferation of conflicts in countries around the globe. The response to this state of affairs has been ‘sermon’ on tolerance in the face of aggressive terror. Tolerance may not have been properly conceptualized. The thrust of this paper, therefore, is to stimulate interest in the conceptualization of these terms so that their understanding would pave the way for long lasting solutions. In so doing, the paper will employ historical and philosophical approaches to situate the arguments.

ФУНКЦИИ ПРАВА И ПРАВОВОЙ СИСТЕМЫ ОБЩЕСТВА

Author(s): Aydar Rushanovich Gubaidullin / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2013

We consider the concept and attributes of the functions of a legal system and analyze their peculiarities. Great attention is paid to the integrative function of a legal system, regarded as the most important one since it ensures integrity of both legal system and society in general. We study regulatory and protective functions peculiar to both law and a legal system, as well as the function of legal socialization, the function of value orientation, and the information function of a legal system. We believe that an individual function of law may be included in the content of various functions of a legal system. The functions of a legal system and the functions of law depend on the peculiarities of legal family.

Функција Председника И Религија У Политичком Систему Сад

Author(s): Miroljub Jevtić / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2007

There were 43 presidents in the history of USA and the analysis of their religious affiliation suggests that a membership in a particular religious denomination has tremendous influence on the American political life. Roman Catholics, for example, comprise a relatively largest denominational community in the US yet despite their 28% share of the religious affiliation only one president ever emerged from that community - John F. Kennedy (1961-1963). By contrast, the three Protestant denominations - Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Unitarians – have 22 of the American presidents yet they comprise 4% of American religious affiliation. This discrepancy itself is sufficient to suggest that a powerful connection exists between religion and politics in the United States.

Функционални особености на бюджета на Европейския съюз

Author(s): Hristo Draganov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Publication Year: 0

The presence of significant revenue and expenditures under the European Union's general budget (although they are relatively small compared to the share of the Member States' public funds) which is a major financial instrument for achieving the Union's aims, is a prerequisite for considering its functional features.

ФУНКЦИОНИРАЊЕ НА ЕВРОПСКИОТ ОМБУДСМАН

Author(s): Iskra Akimovska-Maletić / Language(s): Macedonian / Issue: 7/2005

Ombudsman is a very renowned democratic institution in the world, and it’s characteristic for most countries that have or tend to have developed democracy. In this article, the author considers some of the basic characteristics of the European Ombudsman in order to profile this institution. The European Ombudsman is one of the legal instruments eminent to the European standards - an institution for protection of the human rights and freedoms. With the accession of the Republic of Macedonia into the EU, Macedonian citizens will have full access to another mechanism and instrument for protection of human rights and freedoms, based on European standards.