A ’Rump’ Statehood and the Polish Liberalism

Author(s): Tomasz Zyro / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

This article is revised version of speech that was given at Oxford University. It deals with the origins of polish liberalism. Author states that there are two sources of liberalism that look like globular clusters. The first one sprung from a tradition of ancient feudal liberties. And the second source: liberalism stemmed from an opposition both to a practice of absolutist state and to the political ideology of absolutism. Finally, article tracks down the intellectual history of Polish liberalism

A tőke és a gondoskodás ellentmondásai

Author(s): Nancy Fraser / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 24/2018

Nancy Fraser tracks the reconfiguration of the relations of social reproduction under successive regimes of accumulation – “separate spheres”, male breadwinner, dual-income household. Are the exactions of financialized capitalism now serving to undermine its lifeworld?

A tranzitológiának vége, felejtsük el? Az átmenet tervezett intézményeitől a tervezetlen hibridizációig

Author(s): Ervin Csizmadia / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2016

The essay focuses on answering the question of what happened to transitology, the main narrative of the 1989–90 process of democratization, after it prevailed. The theory lasted for just one decade and already at the beginning of the millennium Thomas Carothers declared the end of transitology. However, many things happened between its birth and demise. This essay aims to map this intermediate phase, as well as to present two experiments for the theoretical adaptation of transitology: the theories concerning the foundation and consolidation of institutions, and those concerning the creation of hybrid and illiberal regimes. The analysis would like to call attention to the fact that the theories of the period of transition were far from identical, they went through serious changes during the 90s. These changes however came about not outside of the trend, but within, therefore the approach of the founding theory pervades these pieces of writing. In some places the essay refers to criticisms incurred by transition theories, nevertheless, these are external critiques of transitology, therefore the essay only speaks of these tangentially. The author comes to the conclusion that though transitology has run out of wind, the theoretical and attitudinal lessons of it remain largely unprocessed to this day.

Abordări germane contemporane în domeniul istoriei și teoriei relațiilor internaționale: lupta între realism și idealism continuă de zor

Author(s): Elena-Daniela Vasilescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: II/2006

Discussion on the books of Ulrich MENZEL, Zwischen Idealismus und Realismus. Die Lehre von den Internationalen Beziehungen, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2001, 286 pages and Siegfried SCHIEDER, Manuela SPINDLER (Hrsg.), Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen, Leske+Budrich, Opladen, 2003, 544 pages

Adam Leszczyński, „Eksperymenty na biednych. Polityczny, moralny i ekonomiczny spór o to, jak pomagać skutecznie”, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN, Warszawa 2016, ss. 281

Author(s): Katarzyna Zalas-Kaminska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2017

Adam Smith, Commercial Society and the Challenges of Republicanism

Author(s): Rafal Lis / Language(s): English / Issue: 25/2017

The aim of this article is to examine the challenges Adam Smith’s account of commercial society pose to republicanism. The research problem and methods: Although I do not dispense with the conventional depiction of Smith as a critic of republics, it is shown that from a republican point of view there are certain aspects in his narrative that can be more interesting. Conceptualized in this way, my argumentation is both interpretative and theoretical, describing what Smith had to say on republican issues as well as finding some elements in his considerations that could considerably enrich republican theory. To make these prospects clearer I briefly refer to some parallels to Smith’s suggestions in the republican thought of the late 18th Century. The process of argumentation: The article deals in the beginning with Smith’s criticism of republicanism, identifying its core in his general distance towards the ideals of a more ardent citizenry. In the main section it proceeds to the discussion of several elements in Smith’s considerations which could be of some value to republican theorists. Research results: According to Smith, due to their obsoleteness in the times of commercial society, which were characterized especially by the growing importance of private pursuits, republics become difficult to administer. However, one could still use some of his arguments (especially those that can be easily filtered from their doctrinal connotations) to the task of modernizing the republican tradition. Conclusions, innovations and recommendations: Smith’s considerations could be valuable to all those republican theorists who continued in their efforts to modernize their conception of a republic. Seen in this way, they can be perceived as an interesting reference point in the area of republican theorizing.

Adam Smith’in Devlet Anlayışı Üzerine Kuramsal Bir İnceleme

Author(s): Kürsad Zorlu,Hale Kirmizioglu / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 22/2018

The purpose of this study is to throw light on the state, one of the most important structures in social sciences and its functions. This great structure on which the discussions have not been ended and which has been defined in terms of every social science. For this purpose, the ideas of Adam Smith who handled and examined the state in terms of its functions especially in economic realm were prioritised general overview of the state. Since, Adam Smith’s conception of the state presents a different content than the other prominent mainstream economic thinkers of his time. In order to understand Smith’s thought system and his views of state from a managerial perspective, his views in his two primary works – The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations and other discussions concerned with these views in literature were included in this study.

Adam Smith’s natural liberty system

Author(s): Janina Godlów-Legiedz / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

The aim of the article is to show the falsity of the dominant perception of Adam Smith’s doctrine. In the context of different interpretations, the paper draws attention to four issues. Firstly, the formalistic revolution in economics contributed to ignoring the institutional dimension of the market mechanism. Secondly, the idea of natural liberty emerged as a reaction to the mercantilist policy and was directed not against the sovereign as such but against policies advancing particular interests. Thirdly, the liberty was to serve not only the capital and the employer but, above all, the labor and the employee. Fourthly, the Smithian market order is a form of metacoordination, hence John Nash's game theory cannot prove Smith's ideas wrong.

Adaptacja polityczna Singapuru w Stowarzyszeniu Narodów Azji Południowo-Wschodniej

Author(s): ANNA GRZYWACZ / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2015

The article focuses on the analysis of Singapore’s political adaptation. The author attempts to answer the following question: What kind of strategy of political adaptation has been adopted by Singapore as regards its activity in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)? The paper verifies the hypothesis that Singapore’s political adaptation is characterised by creativity, which means that Singapore strives to adjust to the changes taking place in the regional environment and tries to influence its shape. The article is divided into several parts. In the first one, the author discusses the concept of political adaptation, the second one focuses on the vision and principles of Singapore’s foreign policy, and the subsequent ones describe the country’s activity in ASEAN.

Addressing the Threat of Fraud and Corruption in Public Procurement: Review of State of the Art Approaches

Compendium

Author(s): Center for the Study of Democracy CSD / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 2013

The present compendium of selected best practices addresses the threat of fraud and corruption from multiple perspectives, with the underlying purpose of providing practitioners from Romania and Greece with a set of state of the art approaches for addressing the threat of fraud and corruption in the complex multi-layered national public procurement systems. This publication is based on ideas presented at the international seminar EU's Financial Interests under Threat: New Approaches in Assessing the Risks from Public Procurement and EU Funds Fraud, organised on 31 October – 1 November 2013 in Sofia, with the support of the European AntiFraud Office (OLAF).

Affective and Aspirational Dimension of Political Reality. Is Knowledge of Politics Still the Domain of Political Scientists?

Author(s): Lukasz Mlynczyk / Language(s): English / Issue: 22/2017

Modern knowledge about politics draws from a variety of resources for which the academic environment of political scientists is not at all a nonalternative issuer of information. Not only cognitive egalitarianism is postulated, but also more adequate knowledge is chosen, because the criterion of evaluation is its suitability for practical use. In this way, we stop to recognize that knowledge, par excellence scientific, first permeates with the colloquial understanding and explaining of the politics, and in the next step loses its unique character, rooted in metapolitical scientific research. Empirical effects, so in the case of political analysis, are brought to influence the recipient. Because of this science of politics is gaining a profile of gainful employment, whose achievements little fit into the postulated political reality.

African Studies in the Other Europe: A Legitimate Perspective on Africa

Author(s): Peter Skalník / Language(s): English / Issue: 42/2016

African Studies in the countries that were under communist rule and that today are known as post‑ communist, have originally developed an interest in Africa based on ideological, political and economic interests of the state. There has been a gradual shift from ideology to economy while the study of African politics seems to follow the vagaries of the influence that Africa exerts on the world scene. Characteristically, until recently AEGIS did not include a single centre or association based in post‑ communist Europe even though in countries such as Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary African studies currently experience considerable growth. This reflects both the hegemony of Western Europe with its strong colonial and neo‑ colonial emphases and weak official interest that post‑ communist Europe shows for Africa. The article describes changing emphases of eastern European Africanist scholarship and discusses the question of legitimacy of the marginal but non‑ colonial approach to African studies. In contradistinction to the Western European African studies and with Eastern European approaches it shows that the latter perspective is useful for a critical look at the hitherto dominant paternalistic style of African studies in Europe.

Afrički jug - anketa

Author(s): Specified No Author / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 03/1978

Da li je konflikt na jugu »crnog« kontinenta posljedica rasnih suprotnosti, inozemne dominacije ili klasnih antagonizama? Koji su ciljevi borbe narodnooslobodilačkih pokreta Zimbabvea, Namibije i Južne Afrike? Kakav je smisao »internih rješenja« koja se danas predlažu za budućnost tih teritorija?

Afterword

Author(s): Zsolt Czigányik / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The present volume offers interdisciplinary analyses of utopian phenomena.The interdisciplinary nature of studies in utopianism (and also in other fields) is becoming more and more accepted, yet the cooperation of the various disciplines in interpretation is not automatic, and their emphases and approaches may differ substantially.

Against the Current. A Remarkable Literary Discourse on Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe in Terms of Self and Other

Author(s): Emma Klever / Language(s): English / Issue: 2 (05)/2015

The political reality of the European Union is not reflected in the general discourse on the relationship between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe, which is characterized by an adverse attitude towards the latter. This impacts identity construction on the European level, where Central and Eastern Europe has long been regarded as the “Other” against which the European “self ” was defined. However, a new discourse on this relationship has emerged in literary works written by scholars and journalists that are able to take an overarching perspective. The present study analyses four publications to see how the relationship between Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe is portrayed in terms of the self and the Other, employing the Discourse Historical Approach and a spectrum of the self and the Other perspectives. It emerges that the discussed authors share a discourse which respects differences, focuses on similarities as well as differences and shows an awareness of the interwovenness of the narratives of the self and the Other. This new, shared discourse holds directions for the further development of a European-wide discourse that includes the same notions of respect and the interwovenness of narratives, and which could in turn influence European identity construction.

Ako komunikuje pravica: komunikačné aktivity vybraných (krajne) pravicových politických strán v Českej republike a na Slovensku pred parlamentnými voľbami v rokoch 2016 a 2017

Author(s): Ondrej Filipec,Michal Garaj,Jaroslav Mihálik / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 3/2018

Modern political parties more often use online communication and web-based tools of political marketing. Such activities are most visible in case of target marketing campaigns on web sites and social networks.This paper explored the communication tools and activities of selected right-wing political parties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the digital space. The aim was to compare two Czech (Labor Party of Social Justice - DSSS and Direct Democracy Party - SPD) and two Slovak parties (People´s Party - Our Slovakia - LSNS and Slovak National Party - SNS). The choice of right-wing subjects has been put in place to guarantee the political diversity and variability within the right-wing parties, especially with regard to their democratic or antisystem orientation. The authors focused on the content analysis of program documents, web sites and communication through the Facebook social network, with data collection tracking two months before the parliamentary elections in 2016 in Slovakia and in 2017 in the Czech Republic. The results show that radical right wing political parties dominate the online communication compared to the traditional political campaigning.

Aktywność międzynarodowa regionów (paradyplomacja) w ujęciu teoretycznym

Author(s): Maciej Ras / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016

The article presents proposed systematisation of international activity of regions (constituent parts of states) – regional paradiplomacy – within the framework of international relations studies. The author outlines the problems with defining the concept in question, the determinants of increasing activity of regions in international relations as well as the development of paradiplomacy studies. Furthermore, the author points out the dynamism and complexity of the analysed phenomenon aswell as the vagueness of the concept of regional paradiplomacy and the need to conduct further studies on the issue.

Akumulacija kapitala - Kritika teorija o koncentraciji proizvodnje

Author(s): Ivo Brkljacic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 04/1979

Akumulacija kapitala je osnovica proširene reprodukcije kapitalističkog društva. Istovremeno, porast organskog sastava kapitala uzrokuje smanjenje profitne stope i nedovoljnu zainteresiranost privatnog kapitala za nove investicije. Iako akumulacija kapitala postavlja granice daljem razvitku proizvodnje na kapitalističkoj osnovi; isti zakoni razvitka kapitalizma ujedno su zakoni njegova vlastitog negiranja i zamjene novim, socijalističkim društveno-ekonomskim poretkom.

Akumulacja pierwotna i czasowości kapitalizmu

Author(s): Joanna Bednarek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 16/2015

The main thesis of the article is the statement that capitalism is composed of many different, incoherent temporalities, as well as that apprehension of capitalism from the angle of primitive accumulation enables the more accurate grasp of the modes of its functioning, including the complexity created by the interactions of the temporalities mentionned. The problem of primitive accumulation is, as Sandro Mezzadra proves, a good starting point for analysing this issue. It allows us to pose two questions: first, the question of the relation between the historical dimension and the structural logic of capitalism; second, the question of hierarchical relation between the center and the periphery of the capitalist system. Dipesh Chakrabarty’s project of ‘provincializing Europe’ proves helpful here, as it’s goal is deconstruction of the categories of progress, modernization and the capital with its abstract structure. The aim is not to negate the fact that capitalist abstraction is a real force, but to show that this force develops by means of constant assimiliation of the other – redefined as ‘backward’ or archaic. The linear scheme is in force, because it is the main mechanism of imposing the power of capital; as such, it is not politically neutral.

Alexander Cooley, Jack Snyder (ed.) "Ranking the World: Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance"

Author(s): Alicja Curanovic / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2016