Misalokacja funkcjonalna nieruchomości – szansa dla inwestorów, wyzwanie dla gminy

Author(s): Katarzyna Kania,Małgorzata Uhruska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The paper discusses the economically inefficient usage of urban estates within city areas. This lack of efficiency is attributable to the misallocation of land resources as measured by their actual function, location and user needs. A good example of that effect is placement of extensive industrial areas within city boundaries that effectively block development of mixed-function residental, cultural, trade or service-related properties. On the other hand, real estate development processes taking place in cities lead to different estate usage, based on its value. Land is a restricted resource, so owners prefer investments that will maximise profit through the most effective investment paths. This article seeks to prove that the investment value of real estate will, over time, block its economically inefficient usage in cities. A clear relationship is shown between increasing real estate investment value and decreasing existing functional misallocation.

Misja, wizja i cele uniwersytetu ekonomicznego

Author(s): Wioletta Gaweł / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2018

Trudności w określeniu całościowej misji uniwersytetu, powodują konieczność systematyzacji trzeciej misji uniwersytetu.Analizie zostały poddane misje uniwersytetów ekonomicznych w Polsce: Szkoła Główna Handlowa, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach, Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie.Uczelnie w sposób klarowny określają misję związaną z badaniami i kształceniem oraz profilem swojej jednostki. Odpowiedzią na zmieniające się warunki zewnętrze i oczekiwania interesariuszy są zawarte w trzeciej misji, która nie została w pełni uchwycona.

OSOBY Z NIEPEŁNOSPRAWNOŚCIAMI W SZKOŁACH WYŻSZYCH: ANALIZA PORÓWNAWCZA POLSKA – UKRAINA

Author(s): Maria Agnieszka Paszkowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

W artykule zaprezentowano wyniki analizy polityki edukacyjnej Polski i Ukrainy w zakresie udostępniania osobom z niepełnosprawnościami możliwości zdobycia wyższego wykształcenia. Ze względu na posiadane dysfunkcje i ograniczone finanse gospodarstw domowych, wiele z tych osób nie mogłoby podjąć i ukończyć nauki bez wsparcia ze strony państwa. Przedstawiono zapisy międzynarodowych i krajowych aktów prawnych dotyczących kształcenia osób z niepełnosprawnościami oraz dokumentów wewnętrznych wybranych uczelni (studium przypadku: Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, Kijowski Narodowy Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny im. Vadyma Hetmana w Kijowie). Omówiono również instrumenty wsparcia w postaci kredytów studenckich, stypendiów i programów celowych.The article presents the results of the analysis of the education policy of Poland and Ukraine in the field of providing the possibility of obtaining higher education for people with disabilities with. Due to the dysfunctions and limited finances of households, many of these people could not take up and complete education without state support. Provisions of international and national legal acts concerning the education of people with disabilities and internal documents of selected universities are presented (case study: University of Zielona Góra, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman in Kiev). Support instruments in the form of student loans, scholarships and targeted programs were also discussed.

Unia Afrykańska a procesy demokratyzacji w Afryce

Author(s): Wiesław Lizak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2017

The crises in Africa in the 1980s and the threat of marginalisation in an increasingly global international system motivated the African elites to search for corrective strategies to speed up development and modernisation processes on the continent. Democratisation, conceived as a way of empowering societies and of creating effective government institutions, was considered an element of these strategies. The need to build democratic regimes based on the rule of law was included on the agenda of regional international institutions, including the Organisation of African Unity and its successor, the African Union. And yet promoting democratisation in Africa runs into a range of obstacles having to do with the socio-political conditions in different countries and subregions of the continent.

Sprawozdanie z XVII Konferencji Instytutu Stosunków Międzynarodowych WNPiSM Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Księży Werbistów „Sacrum i profanum we współczesnym świecie”, pt. Religia – naród – tożsamość w rzeczywistości międzynarodowej, Pieniężno

Author(s): Anna M. Solarz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2017

Dmitri Trenin, "What is Russia up to in the Middle East", Polity Press, Cambridge 2018, ss. 144

Author(s): Katarzyna Zielińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2017

Maéva Clément, Eric Sangar (red.), Researching Emotions in International Relations. Methodological Perspectives on the Emotional Turn, s. 248–253

Author(s): Maria Piekarska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2017

Nowoczesne zarządzanie w administracji publicznej

Author(s): Malwina Kostrzewska-Obertaniec / Language(s): Polish Issue: 8/2018

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest próba zbadania i znalezienia najlepszego modelu zarządzania w polskiej administracji publicznej.Badania były poświęcone satysfakcji klientów i pracowników Urzędu Miasta Krakowa. Zostały przeprowadzone w dziewiętnastu punktach obsługi jedenastu wydziałów Urzędu Miasta Krakowa. Ilość wypełnionych ankiet wynosi osiemset trzydzieści, składała się z dziesięciu pytań zamkniętych, czterech otwartych i sześciu pytań znajdujących się w metryczce. Średni czas trwania jednego badania to sześć minut. Ogółem badania trwały dwa tygodnie.Wyniki wskazały na nieznaczne różnice w ocenie u badanych pracowników i klientów. Urząd postrzegany jest dobrze przez dwie grupy uczestniczące w ankiecie, lecz klienci oceniają badane aspekty wyżej niż pracownicy.Badanie ukazuje, że środowisko wewnętrzne danej organizacji potrzebuje sprawnego zarządzania i ciągłego motywowania do tego, aby wysoko oceniać organizację w której pracują urzędnicy. Klienci usatysfakcjonowani są zachodzącymi zmianami w administracji państwowej.

Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej stosunek do prawa międzynarodowego

Author(s): Patrycja Grzebyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The paper addresses the approach of the Polish government to international law since 1918, when the country regained its independence, although focusing primarily on the period after 1989. In its first part, the paper looks back at the statements actually made by Poland’s highest authorities, particularly at the United Nations forum, comprising direct references to international law. The Authors argue that even though Polish government did recognise the role of international law, it was rather inconsistent in having it invoked throughout. In the second part, the paper assesses Poland’s overall credibility in terms of public appeals for compliance with international law, as expressed by its representatives, in the light of the country’s own practice, which the Authors deem inconsistent. Those domains of international law, to which Poland had actually made its appreciable contribution, are well pointed out, though. The third part verifies overall efficacy of the efforts undertaken by the Polish government in promoting its representatives to various international bodies (e.g. International Law Commission, International Court of Justice) entrusted with the task of e.g. identifying and interpreting the norms of international law.

Kwestie suwerenności Polski w organizacjach międzynarodowych. Zarys historyczny

Author(s): Irena Popiuk-Rysińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The article outlines the history of Poland’s participation in international organisations spanning almost 100 years. It primarily sets out to identify and assess the specific issues regarding national sovereignty that boasted key pertinence throughout that time. It focuses on the three periods, i.e. the interwar period, marked by Poland’s membership in the League of Nations, as well as by coercion to undertake a certain scope of international obligations, Cold War period – the time of “limited sovereignty” and subordination to the Soviet Union, and the last one, i.e. following the end of Cold War, and the change of a political system in the country. It was in that time, in the environment of growing interdependence and deepening international integration, accompanied by major changes within the scope of membership in international organizations, that optimum political positions and relations within the fold of those organizations had to be worked out in terms of the country’s vital interests, which would not have been possible without maintaining its sovereignty in the first place, while also having it subjected to a major rethink, with a view to its ultimate redefinition.

Cesarstwo Niemieckie a odbudowa państwa polskiego

Author(s): Jacek Kosiarski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Following the outbreak of World War I, a reconstruction of Poland’s statehood emerged as a legitimate issue on the German Empire’s political agenda. German decision-makers deemed the Polish cause an important instrument of the anti- Russian diversion, thus falling back onto the original strategic plans contemplated by the German Army’s General Staff as early as 1880s. The rebuilt Polish statehood was also deemed a component of the so-called Mitteleuropa concept, i.e. a union of European states, officially invested with equal rights, but actually subject to German domination. In Berlin, it was believed that by controlling Mitteleuropa Germany would gain a dominant position on a global scale, and would consequently join the elite club of autarkic world powers, as its bona fide fourth member, alongside the United States, British Empire, and Russia. Postulated establishment of a Central European Economic Union (Mitteleuropa concept), one of whose components was to be a rebuilt Polish statehood, was incorporated into the key agenda of German war aims, the so-called Septemberprogramm of 1914, endorsed by the Chancellor of the German Reich, and Prime Minister of Prussia, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. Germany briefly implemented the Mitteleuropa concept between March (Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty with Bolshevik Russia) and November of 1918 (ultimate war defeat of the German Reich).

Nauka o stosunkach międzynarodowych w koncepcji Ludwika Ehrlicha

Author(s): Tomasz Pugacewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The article aims to address the following questions: how did L. Ehrlich perceive the study of international relations, and, if he embraced a specific theory of international relations in his investigative approach, which theory actually was it? In line with the so-called contextual approach, developed within the framework of the studies on the history of ideas, assuming that respective academic investigators should effectively reflect in their research the times in which they actually live, the two hypotheses were put forward, i.e. (1) Ehrlich construed the International Relations as an interdisciplinary area of knowledge, and (2) followed the theories being developed in his own time, i.e. liberal internationalism and classical realism. The first part of the text focuses on Ehrlich’s biography in terms of how he actually related himself to the above-referenced area of knowledge. Then his concept of the International Relations is discussed. The Author adopted a case study research strategy, as well as applied the qualitative analysis method in approaching all textual material. The first part of the paper made use of available scientific studies, while the Ehrlich’s monograph entitled Introduction to the International Relations (1947) was mined for the second part. In the conclusions section the first hypothesis was upheld, as Prof. Ehrlich’s reflections on the interdisciplinary character of the International Relations are actually a part of the dominant perspective embraced in the interwar period. At the same time, the second hypothesis failed to be confirmed, as Ehrlich never in fact put forward a clear and coherent theory of international relations. Instead of following the dominant theoretical positions of his own time, his thought is found to incorporate the components of a diversity of concepts, including not only the two theories typical of that time but also the theory of international society. In view of the fact that some of those ideas appear to be a decade and more ahead of the times when Ehrlich drafted his own works, his entire research must be assessed in terms of the extent to which such innovative thinking was actually espoused by him at the time.

Sprawozdanie z II Spotkania Konsorcjum akademickich zakładów studiów strategicznych (i bezpieczeństwa) – 23 kwietnia 2018 r.

Author(s): Piotr Śledź / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Philippe Sands, Powrót do Lwowa. O genezie „ludobójstwa” i „zbrodni przeciwko ludzkości”

Author(s): Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

Securitizing “The Other”: A case study on Israeli and Palestinian institutional discourses

Author(s): Călin Ştefan Georgia / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The present study is focused on the image of “the other” in the institutional discourse of Israeli and Palestinian actors, employing Discourse analysis and Functional Grammar in order to segment the discourses and analyze them from the perspective of ingroup and outgroup construals. In doing so, the study explores the dynamics between two securitization processes, taking in account the theoretical shortcomings of the Securitization Theory regarding the nature of the act of security, as well as the relation between the securitizing actor and the target audience.

EXPLORING PARTY SWITCHING IN THE POST-1989 ROMANIAN POLITICIANS NETWORK FROM A COMPLEX NETWORK PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Silvia I. Fierăscu,Mihai Pârvu,Alexandru Topîrceanu,Mihai Udrescu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The new science of complex networks provides computational tools that are effective at analyzing big data sets from a wide array of scientific fields, ranging from medicine to engineering, technology, and social networks. Here, we explore the party co-affiliation networks of Romanian politicians who were in Parliament after the regime change in 1989, while focusing on individual party switchers. As such, we propose a set of three novel measures to understand the context of party switching, at both micro level (individual MPs’ career choices), as well as macro level (the party performance of the receiving political organizations). We thus build a network in which nodes represent individual politicians, while links represent shared membership within the same political party over the same electoral cycle. We combine these insights with a centrality analysis of influential switchers during the period of 1990 to 2018. By applying the PageRank centrality in our network of Romanian politicians, we make explicit the link between heterogeneity of strategic party switching choices at the individual MP level and homogeneity and political fragmentation at the party level, as party switchers fill in structural holes in a multi-party system. Although the act of party switching is controversial at individual MP (micro) level, the dynamic movement of individual MPs across the political spectrum of parties appears to have unexpected consequences at the party system (macro) level. Our analysis has implications for party politics and the study of party systems, as well as for MPs’ career development opportunities.

Growth Orientation of Women and Men Owners of Micro Firms in the Pomeranian Region

Author(s): Julita E. Wasilczuk / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

Despite the fact that research on women’s entrepreneurship has been conducted for many years, still many clear answers to questions about the differences between entrepreneurs of both genders are missing. One of the unresolved issues is the performance of women in entrepreneurship. Research aims. The aim of the study is to investigate the growth orientation of microenterprises operating in the Pomeranian region in Poland and to compare its level according to the gender of the owner. Methodology. An index of entrepreneurs’ growth orientation was developed. This index, being a determinant of the company’s growth potential, was based on five indicators: goals and plans of the entrepreneur, innovative activities, investment, and activity in finding sources of funding. The data was gathered by a face to face survey, based on a questionnaire, among microfirm owners from the Pomeranian region – Poland, in 2009 and 2012. Key findings. The analysis of growth orientation of women and men, pointed out that the first showed a lower indicator of it, however again the general conclusions are not so clear.

Zmiany technologiczne vs. tradycyjna geopolityka na globalnym i europejskim rynku energetycznym

Author(s): Kamila Pronińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2017

The aim of the article is to identify major demand-supply, technological as well as geopolitical trends in the oil and gas market. It is argued that the current relatively low oil prices, together with demand trends and the policy of energy transformation, will have long-term geostrategic implications for both exporters and importers of hydrocarbons. To verify this hypothesis, the author focuses first on an analysis of the petro-states’ export policies as a response to current supply-demand and technological trends. In this respect, the OPEC’s approach is discussed as well as Russia’s perspective and its current energy geopolitics. Secondly, the article describes energy transformation policies of importers such as China and the EU. It provides an analysis of the co-relations between these two areas of importers’ and exporters’ energy policies and their consequences for global and regional energy markets.

Unia Europejska: cisza przed burzą

Author(s): Paweł J. Borkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2017

In 2017, the European Union was gathering momentum; it was in better shape than in previous years, but still rather looking for and choosing direction then taking actual action. The latter was supposed to begin after clearing the issue of Brexit, the presidential election in France in the spring and the parliamentary elections in Germany in the autumn. The victory of the pro-European E. Macron was important because it was interpreted as a change of tides after a period of rampant euroscepticism. Brexit took much longer than expected, but finally in December 2017 the air was cleared. Unfortunately, problems with forming the new German government caused plans for EU reform, which everybody had hoped for in September, to be put on hold. Meanwhile, problems with countries rebelling against EU rules and values (namely Poland and Hungary) deepened, and defining anew the geographical scope of integration became a more crucial issue than many European politicians wanted it to be.

Behind Hummus Wars: The Role of the Food in National Identity in the Middle East

Author(s): Özge Çopuroğlu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Food is an essential part of our everyday lives and it is significantly important for international politics as for national identities. The future of food is widely discussed in political and social sciences in the contexts of food security, health, international marketing cultural identities, and migratory issues. Despite the growing importance of food studies, the enduring power of nationalism and the apparent relationship between food culture and national identity, writers on nationalism have made little reference to food in their research. This article aims to explore the connection between food and nationalism and I argue that food plays a central role in performing the nation's culture and expresses the idea of the nation through portraying spiritual, material and commercial aspects of the national identity. Here, the discussion will proceed through a well – known Middle Eastern food, Hummus.