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The political system of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Institutions – actors – processes

Author(s): / Language(s): English

As a result of the biggest war in Europe after World War II, the international community imposed a complicated federal structure on Bosnia and Herzegovina in order to create a balance in the inter-ethnic conflict in the country. It was possible to end the war, however the political system that had been established did not unify or solidify the country as a nation, nor did it lay the foundations for real peace and cooperation within the ethnic groups. On the contrary, the present political structure in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the most complicated systems in the world (and maybe also in history), presenting a multilayer political system that can be governed only if there is a clear will and a decision by the political elites to work together. This will is lacking on all sides, resulting in permanent political blockade even for relatively small matters. It is no secret that this situation and the ensuing lack of progress is obstructing the country’s goal of ultimately joining the European Union. Furthermore, the status quo also exacerbates the risk that Bosnia and Herzegovina will stay behind other countries in their quest to participate in the great peace project called European Union. Additionally, there is no doubt that this situation is hindering the improvement of the living standard for the population as a whole. The prevailing political and economic conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina prove that there is a need for political reforms.

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Parlamentarizam u Bosni i Hercegovini

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian

Parlament je jezgro reprezentativne demokratije. U optimalnom slučaju on zastupa volju naroda. Uloga stranaka je da povezuju individualne interese birača i zastupaju ih u interesu zajedničkog dobra. Međutim, ne samo u Bosni i Hercegovini, diljem svijeta gubi se povjerenje u demokratiju. Kod mnogih građana javlja se utisak da parlament donosi odluke, usvaja zakone i potiče trendove koji ne odgovaraju zajedničkom dobru. Kada zastupnici ne postupaju u skladu s voljom građana, kredibilitet politike pada, izlaznost birača se smanjuje, a legitimnost parlamenta postaje upitna. Uslijed krize reprezentativne demokratije, u brojnim zemljama – pa tako naprimjer i u Njemačkoj – sve su glasniji pozivi za neposrednim demokratskim procesima. Populistički zahtijevajući da se moć da u ruke građana, kroz plebiscite, odluke naroda i referendum, očekuje se da se odluke donose što je moguće dalje od parlamenta.

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UNDP - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 1996 - BULGARIA

Author(s): Nikolai Genov,Anna Ivanova Mantarova,Dimitrina Dimitrova,Gancho Ganchev,Georgi Bogdanov,Georgi Shopov,Iskra Beleva,Mariana Zaharieva,Minko Minkov,Yordan Hristoskov / Language(s): English

For almost fifty years, Bulgarian society has been guided by principles which hardly changed over time. Then, all of the sudden, the introduction of democratic institutions and market economy shattered the foundations of socio-economic life of the country. The radical changes caused disorientation among large segments of the population which was not prepared for them. // The magnitude of the changes was not anticipated in the international community as well. As a result, the objective of creating an environment which provides equal opportunities for all is far from being met. New disparities appeared, old ones increased. // Against this background the Human Development Report. Bulgaria 1996 is a genuine attempt to contribute to the development of a policy dialogue in the country. The report aims at identifying the most vulnerable groups in Bulgarian society as well as the areas which need most urgent attention. The views set forth in the report have emerged from the candid and professional analysis of an eminent team working under the guidance of Prof. Nikolai Genov. // The process of preparing the report is just as important as the report itself. The preliminary findings have been presented and discussed at several workshops open to the public. The team of authors greatly benefited from the open exchange of ideas there. // The findings of the report indicate that the main challenge to Bulgarian society is the development of the human capacity to cope with a rapidly evolving social transformation. The major task is to formulate and implement policies which will create an enabling environment of sustainable human development.

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UNDP - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2002 – BULGARIA. Municipalities in the Context of Districts

Author(s): Dotcho Mihailov,Diana Kopeva,Lyubomir Dimitrov / Language(s): English

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UNDP - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2006 – CROATIA. - Faces of social Exclcusion in Croatia

Author(s): Marinka Bakula Anđelić,Đordana Barbarić,Predrag Bejakovic,Davor Gjenero,Suzana Kunac,Teo Matković,Paul Stubbs,Aleksandar Štulhofer,Tomislav Tomašević,Siniša Zrinščak / Language(s): English

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UNDP - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2009 – MONTENEGRO. Society for All

Author(s): Arkadi Toritsyn,Dragana Radević,Ana Krsmanović,Milica Mirković,Velizar Golubović,Vojin Golubović,Ivan Jovetić,Lidija Jovetić,Slavica Nikolić,Aleksandra Višnjić / Language(s): English

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UNDP - HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2016 – SERBIA. The Strength of Diversity

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English

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Publicznoprawne aspekty udziału sektora MŚP w procesie realizacji strategicznych celów polityki rozwoju / Aspectos de derecho público de la participación del sector de las PYMES en el proceso de implementación de los objetivos estratégicos...

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish,Spanish

The monograph entitled Public-law aspects of the participation of the SME sector in the process of achieving strategic goals of development policy is the result of the research by an international team of scientists from Poland, Spain and Chile. The issues covered by the analysis relate to activities with the highest priority from the point of view of socio-economic development, namely combating climate change and facing the challenges of digitization. Barriers to the use of the Digital Single Market mainly concern small and medium-sized enterprises, which are the dominant group of entities actively operating in the economy, and their activities and expenditures on innovation have a direct impact on the implementation of strategic development goals. The authors of the study, analyzing the provisions of EU law and national law systems, attempted to identify legal and administrative barriers to SME, to assess the effectiveness of existing support tools, to identify areas requiring intervention by the EU or national legislator, and to formulate de lege ferenda proposals for more effective support for SME. The monograph includes texts prepared in Polish and Spanish with extensive translations of their summaries.

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Reassessing Activism and Engagement Among Arab Youth

Author(s): / Language(s): English

This collective volume contributes to the conceptual understanding of Arab youth and their relationship to politics by making explicit how civic engagement in seemingly ‘apolitical’ fields can be conceived as a form of political activism. In speaking with Algerian, Tunisian, Lebanese, and Syrian youth civic activists who also participated in their country’s uprisings in 2011 or 2019, what is striking is their own insistence on the continuity between direct political protest and their civic engagement. Yet at the same time, these activists almost universally qualify their civic engagement as expressly ‘apolitical’. Such reflections beg two questions: how do youth understand the notion of ‘apolitical’ engagement, and on what premise do they see continuity between political protest and so-called ‘apolitical’ civic engagement? To answer these questions, the studies draw on the analytical tools of practice theory, reconceptualizing ‘youth’ as a generational practice of politics, meaning a ‘competent performance’ of shared knowledge and understandings of what constitutes politics and the political. In conceiving of youth in these terms, this unorthodox collection – representing multidisciplinary and multilinguistic research and blending theoretical and practitioner perspectives – is able to bring to the fore how youth comprehend and indeed dichotomize their collective action with ‘politics’.

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Між історією і політикою

Author(s): Marija Stepanivna Karmazina / Language(s): Ukrainian

The collection includes the research studies, op-ed articles on the past and present of Ukraine, at different time published in the various scientific editions and newspapers. A series of essays are published for the first time. The focus of authors is the history of Ukraine late XIX – early XX centuries through the ideas prism of the Ukrainian intellectual environment representatives, the process of the Ukrainian ethno genesis as well as the peculiarities of the political process and the formation of political science in Ukraine at the turn of XX – XXI centuries.

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Виборчий процес 2019 року в Україні у світлі суспільних очікувань

Author(s): R. V. Balaban,N.V. Kononenko,S. Ju. Rymarenko,Halyna I. Zelenko,L. O. Kochubey,Tetjana Anatolijivna Bevz,T. M. Ljashenko,V. V. Bushans'kij,S. G. Breharya,Yuriy Shaigorodsky / Language(s): Ukrainian

The book analyses the course and results of the presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2019. The pre-election status of Ukrainian society, its interests, requests for new politicians, and social needs are characterized. A comparative analysis of the candidates’ programs for the post of President of Ukraine and the status of people’s deputy is carried out. Innovative trends in the use of election technologies are evaluated. The probable prospects of Ukraine for the election results are outlined.

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Демократизація політичних інститутів і суспільний розвиток в Україні

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Ukrainian

The collection contains an analysis of the course of democratic reforms in Ukraine under the influence of external and internal factors. The consequences of the most urgent social reforms are assessed, the problems connected with the manipulative practices of the authorities, using the peculiarities of mass psychology are considered, the evolutionary changes in the values of the population of Ukraine are characterized as a factor promoting democratic transformations. The collection is based on the results of the scientific project "Democratization of political institutions and social development in Ukraine", performed at I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine due to the budget program "Support of priority areas of research for 2019".

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Na ulicy i przy urnie

Author(s): Krzysztof Jasiewicz / Language(s): Polish

Od wielu lat, z bliska i z daleka, z perspektywy Washington and Lee University, Krzysztof Jasiewicz obserwuje, bada i analizuje polską rzeczywistość społeczną i polityczną. W książce Na ulicy i przy urnie sięga do Marca ’68, opisuje stan świadomości społecznej w mrocznych latach osiemdziesiątych i w trudnym okresie transformacji, wykazuje, że od wyborów 1995 roku kształt polskiego życia politycznego decyduje się „przy urnach”. Przygląda się głębokie­mu podziałowi kulturowo-społeczno-politycznemu po 2010 roku, ale kieruje też uwagę na możliwość nowych podziałów: pokoleniowych – raczej nie, płciowych – być może. Zebranie w jednym tomie tekstów z różnych lat, pisanych po polsku i po angielsku, stwa­rza wartość dodaną, zapewnia zróżnicowane podejście do badanej rzeczywistości. Książka obejmuje historię, teraźniejszość, a nawet wychyla się ku przyszłości, uwzględnia literaturę polską i polski punkt widzenia, ale także szerszą, porównawczą perspektywę – wszystko to daje opowieść, którą czyta się z wielkim zainteresowaniem. I z pożytkiem dla zrozumienia niełatwej przeszłości, trudnego dnia dzisiejszego i niepewnego jutra. prof. Mirosława Grabowska, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej Znałem większość tych prac. Każdy, kto studiuje polską politykę, musi je znać. Teraz studia jednego z najwybitniejszych polskich socjologów polityki mamy w jednym przejrzyście zreda­gowanym tomie. W realizowanym z żelazną konsekwencją programie badawczym Jasiewicza zniuansowanie teoretyczne i nienaganny warsztat metodologiczny łączą się z bogactwem danych empirycznych. A to daje wynik o wadze aksjomatu: zachowania polityczne Polaków są motywowane bardziej czynnikami kulturowymi, głównie religijnymi, niż ekonomicznymi. Ani badacze, ani praktycy nie mogą sobie pozwolić, by ten wynik ignorować. prof. Jan Kubik, Rutgers University, University College London

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Bezrobotni z pokolenia Baby Boomers i pokolenia Z. Różnice generacyjne a gotowość do funkcjonowania w realiach zmieniającego się rynku pracy – na przykładzie Rudy Śląskiej

Author(s): Rafał Muster / Language(s): Polish

The monograph attempts to show – on the basis of research carried out in Ruda Śląska – the differences between the expectations towards employers and the issues of professional activation of the unemployed from the Baby Boomers generation (born before 1965) and the unemployed from the Z generation (born after 1989). Empirical research was carried out on representative samples of the unemployed and allowed for the formulation of a number of recommendations relating to undertaking activities in the field of professional activation. The differences between younger and older unemployed have been shown in terms of expectations towards employers and the labor market, and in terms of potential participation in activities related to professional activation.

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Decentralizacja fiskalna jako ograniczenie zjawiska Lewiatana

Author(s): Beata Guziejewska / Language(s): Polish

This monograph examines fiscal decentralisation and its constraining influence on the expansion of the public sector known as Leviathan with respect to J.M Buchanan’s Leviathan hypothesis of decentralised public finance structures. Fiscal decentralisation processes are discussed in the wide context of economic, political, administrative, sociological, and spatial factors. The analysis heavily draws on the achievements of the fiscal federalism theory.The purpose of the monograph is to expand the theoretical knowledge of fiscal decentralisation as a mechanism constraining and inhibiting the threats of Leviathan. It contains a review of previous empirical studies and presents evidence in support of the following research hypotheses:1. Fiscal decentralisation founded on the qualitative premises of the doctrine improves the efficiency of the public sector while constraining Leviathan.2. Decentralisation and fiscal decentralisation can be instrumental in constraining Leviathan in the face of tendencies to centralise the State released by post-crisis responses to the impacts of the pandemic.3. The multifaceted character of fiscal decentralisation causes that its constraining effect on Leviathan is not empirically confirmed for all areas and periods of time.4. Fiscal decentralisation is a significant element in defining a new paradigm of sustainable finance for post-pandemic years. The monograph addresses modern challenges faced by fiscal decentralisation, including the ESG concept (Environmental-Social-Governance) and the impacts of the pandemic. Its interdisciplinary deliberations conclude with a proposal for fiscal decentralisation processes to be incorporated into a new paradigm of sustainable finance.

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Asia in World Politics: Past, Present, and Future

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Quick growth of Chinese economy heralded a shift in the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific. In recent years China’s growing assertiveness, manifested by growing military presence in South China Sea, has been perceived as a major security challenge by most of the countries in the region. This situation is not simply a result of the recent changes in economic and political situation in the country, but rather a manifestation of a long history of building economic and political ties in the region and materialization of Chinese ambitions. It seems that China is finally able to materialize its long-time political ambitions in the region.Other security challenges like the nuclear program of North Korea and changing political situation in Myanmar attested to the increasing uncertainty of security situation in Asia which affects the global geopolitical landscape. Change of power in the United States, and Election of Donald Trump as American president in November 2016 was a signal of another shift in the regional security situation. New president following the slogan “America First” launched a process of renegotiating existing security treaties with Asian allies and presented a mare aggressive stance on China which very soon turned into a serious trade conflict. This monograph illustrates different aspects of these complex power shifts and their influence on the current geopolitical situation in the region.

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Kobieta – przestrzeń konfliktu, pole walk. Szkice z antropologii politycznej

Author(s): Inga B. Kuźma,Edyta B. Pietrzak / Language(s): Polish

The book is a result of work in projects in the fields of civic education, herstory and politics of remembrance, dedicated to the participation of women in armed conflicts and the issue of commemoration and the political use of their symbolic potential. Herstory is about working with minority memory, with stories that are 'not told', it is about working with the multiplicity of narratives that review themselves. That is why herstorical thinking is flexible and allows for the use of art or animation activities that help to bring out what is silenced. The authors try to fit into the methodological framework of hermeneutic reflection, where it is only in dialogue that silence and the inability to give form to what has hitherto been silenced is revealed. They refer to memoirs, autobiographical and biographical statements, testimonies, political texts, legal texts or "secular hagiographies" created from the bottom up. Their field of interest also includes social processes and collective memory and forms of social mentality. They draw on the resources of a political anthropology interested in collective identities, cultural narratives, the meaning and interpretation of symbols, constructing metaphors, images and topos. They are guided by the idea that memory is political, and that how we think about it, speak about it and create it, is a political issue, manifested in the cultural texts and practices of which herstory is an example, and which constitute the mobilizing legitimation of collective visions of community.

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Partytura na wietrze. Koncepcje paryskiej Kultury a polska polityka wschodnia w latach 1989-2014

Author(s): Marcin Frenkel / Language(s): Polish

The book attempts to analyze the influence of the Parisian "Culture" magazine's (in Polish: Kultura) concepts on the Polish eastern policy from 1989 to 2014. "Kultura" was established in 1946 in Rome and soon after moved to Maisons-Laffitte, a small town in the suburbs of Paris. This magazine became the most influential Polish independent "think-tank" during the cold war era. This small group of intellectuals in exile, led by Jerzy Giedroyc, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, created a strategy - so-called "The Giedroyc Doctrine" - that later became a road map for all the successive Polish governments after the fall of communism in 1989. The "Giedroyc Doctrine" can be summarized in four crucial points: I ) supporting the independence and democratization of Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus (ULB) and preserving post-war border lines in Europe; 2) counteracting soviet/Russian imperialism, ceasing Polish-Russian rivalry for ULB territories and creating good relations with Russian liberal/democratic parties and civic movements; 3) consolidating and rebuilding of good relations with Germany; 4) integrating Poland with political, economic and military organizations of the Euro-Atlantic world. It should be underlined that Russia has been the central point of reference for the whole idea. Recognition of the above points should neutralize the threat from Russian imperialism and build a solid foundation for Poland's future security. Analyzing the eastern policy of successive Polish governments in terms of continuing or departing from the concept of "Kultura", the author refers to the above-mentioned key postulates. The research results presented in the book prove that at the given time, all subsequent Polish governments took into account and accepted the "Giedroyc doctrine". Moreover, it should be stated that throughout the first twenty-five years of the Third Republic of Poland, its foreign policy was characterized by a high degree of continuity and attachment to the idea of the Parisian "Kultura". And this policy was the subject of cross-partisan consensus. On the other hand, at the detailed (tactical) level - going beyond the general concept of foreign policy - there were certain misunderstandings of Giedroyc's doctrine

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Międzynarodowe przepływy inwestycji. Zarys teorii i praktyki na tle ewolucji międzynarodowego systemu walutowego

Author(s): Małgorzata Janicka / Language(s): Polish

The monograph is the first comprehensive study on the Polish market combining the analysis of theoretical and practical aspects of international investment flows against the background of the development of the international currency system. The period in which it was completed probably marks the beginning of the emergence of a new global financial architecture. Particular attention was devoted to the discussion on the directions of capital flows in the world economy in relation to the so-called Lucas paradox, most often defined in the context of the inadequacy of the neoclassical model to explain the direction of investment capital flow on a global scale. The aim of the monograph is to introduce the reader to the various theories, views, facts and data on international investment flows over the past two centuries. In a globalized economy, cross-border flows of financial resources constitute a significant part of the ongoing economic processes and are an important determinant of the volatility of macroeconomic parameters. This monograph, which is intended to provide knowledge and competences for the analysis and interpretation of international financial flows, is addressed to a wide audience: students, scientists, business representatives and all those interested in the subject.

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The Communist Party of China Congress: Day by Day. Not on the front page

Author(s): Dominik Mierzejewski / Language(s): English

This volume is a collection of short day-by-day commentaries on the 20th Party Congress. As we know, Xi Jinping has cemented power and established his now unique place in the history of the Communist Party of China. However, the commentaries are not taken from the front pages of Chinese media outlets that were dominated by images and words of senior leaders and mainly Xi Jinping. The commentaries look at “People’s Daily” articles that discussed the Party Congress but not exclusively from the perspective of party members from the higher echelon.

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