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Agricultural and Rural Capital Markets in the EU Candidate Countries: Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey

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

This paper analyses agricultural and rural capital factor markets in the three European Union candidate countries: Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia and Turkey. Aggregate capital market indicators and their dynamics, and factors driving agricultural and rural capital markets are analysed and compared in these countries. In general, agricultural and rural capital markets show similarities with general capital market developments, but agricultural and rural capital markets are facing specific credit constraints related to agricultural assets and rural fixed asset specificities, which constrain their mortgages and collateral use. Credit market imperfections have limited access to the investment credits necessary for there structuring of small-scale individual farms. Government transfers are used to differing extents in the candidate countries, but generally tend to increase over time. Remittances and donor funds have also played an important role in agricultural and rural economy investments.

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Ahmet Bülbül: Şansölye Angela Merkel Dönemi Almanya’nın Orta Doğu Politikası

Author(s): Mustafa Yildiz / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 25/2022

Review of: Ahmet BÜLBÜL, Şansölye Angela Merkel Dönemi Almanya’nın Orta Doğu Politikası, Nobel, Ankara, 2021, ISBN:978-625-7589-52-9

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Aksjologiczne i ideowe fundamenty doktryn liberalnych wobec kwestii ekonomicznych

Author(s): Łukasz Rozen / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

Classical political liberalism was not related with some economic concepts, although John Locke accept right to property as the fundamental law of nature. Later liberalism began involve to economic and social issues. Utilitarian liberalism of J. Bentham and John Stuart Mill created the foundations to social justice. Evolutionary liberalism of H. Spencer affirm human egoism and rivalry as the fundamental social principles, also he was proponent minimum and limited state in political economic. And social liberalism, introducing new concept of positive freedom, was for interventionism and social policy. In XX a. J. Rawls and egalitarian liberalism also was for such economical and social concepts. For this liberalism the primate values are justice as fairness and equality. Liberal doctrines was differently to economical concepts, because they have specific and various ideas and values.

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ALBANIA-GREECE SEA ISSUE THROUGH THE HISTORY FACTS AND THE FUTURE OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Author(s): Senada Reci,Luljeta Zefi / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

The issue of the sea between Albania and Greece has been and continues to be an object of study for various authors. Research shows so far that many studies have tried to go slightly from the descriptive to the explanatory and analytical framework and have generally fallen into the ‘trap’ of subjective approaches creating the phenomenon of nationalism. That appears in different forms, damaging the spirit of friendship and cooperation between both countries. This paper analyzes relations between Albania and Greece and their evolution based on international acts until the decision of the Albanian Constitutional Court annulling the agreement between them on the issue of the sea as incompatible with the constitution in terms of absolute objectivity. The demands of the Greek state for extension with 12 miles under the magnifying glass of the interpretation of the norms of the international law of the sea, the principle of equality and equity are part of the insistence on gaining superiority in the sea area vis-à-vis Albania. All this leading to the dialogue for another treaty cooperation and friendship occupy a vital part of the facts, which constitute an ongoing open discussion about the future of the sea issue on the Hague International Court.

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Aleksander Bocheński a realizm polityczny – zarys problemu

Author(s): Ariel Orzełek / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Political realism is not easy to define. The analysis of specific cases may help. In this text, I wonder whether Aleksander Bocheński was a political realist. His journalism has undergone a significant evolution. He was a supporter of the Polish „power state” before 1939, he wanted to collaborate with the nazi Germans during the war years, and after the war he was an apologist for People's Poland and a critic of the Third Polish Republic. My considerations prove, that Bocheński was looking for political realism in his life and oeuvre, not always, however, entering this trend of reflection on politics.

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Alexander Dugin, The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset

Author(s): Hrvoje Cvijanović / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2022

Review of: Alexander Dugin, The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset Arktos, London, 2021, 86 pp.

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Als „Latwija“ zu einem politischen Begriff wurde. Die Revision von 1882/83 durch Senator Nikolaj Manassein und das politische Denken der lettischen Nationalbewegung

Author(s): Ivars Ījabs / Language(s): German Issue: 3/2016

This article deals with the development of territorial conceptions in early Latvian nationalist thought. ‘Latwija’ (Latvia) initially appeared in the Latvian press in the early 1860s as an ethnographic term designating the territory inhabited by ethnic Latvians. However, it acquired a connotation of political and administrative autonomy around 20 years later, when, after a prolonged debate on reforms in the Baltic provinces, the Tsarist Government organized a revision of social, economic and political conditions in Livonia and Courland. The revision, conducted in 1882-1883 by senator N. A. Manassein, served as an incentive for the Riga Latvian Association (RLA), the organizational centre of the Latvian national movement, to formulate its territorial and political program. It also had to define its stance towards the already existing self-government rights of the Baltic provinces in the Tsarist Empire, until now exercised only by the Baltic German nobilities. In order to explore the crystallization of the politico-territorial views, special attention is paid to the memorandum written by prominent RLA members and submitted to Manassein in 1882. Starting from late 1850s, the ‘Great reforms’ of Alexander II galvanized lively debates on future developments in the Empire’s non-Russian Western regions. In the Baltic provinces these debates took place in a very specific multicultural and multiethnic setting. This can also be seen from the crystallization of the concept of a territorially autonomous ‘Latwija’. Initially, the proposal to divide the three Baltic provinces (Livonia, Estonia, and Courland) along ethnic lines and to create two (an Estonian and a Latvian) governorates came from the Estonian neighbours. A group of Estonian activists, led by Carl Robert Jakobson, suggested a similar idea in its address to tsar Alexander III immediately after his ascension to the throne in 1881. The RLA greeted this idea as a wise plan and included it in its memorandum to Manassein, inviting to name the new Latvian government ‘Latwija’. The idea that the future government ‘Latwija’ should inherit the political privileges of Baltic German nobilities has deeper roots. It was already extensively discussed in the so-called ‘reform debate’ of 1877-1880, when a group of liberal Baltic German nobles proposed to extend the Livonian Landtag, the aristocratic quasi-parliament, to include the representatives of Latvian and Estonian peasantry. The Latvian nationalist press joined the Baltic German discussion, whereby the enlargement of the Landtag was discussed along with the introduction of Russian zemstvos. Although these reforms were never put into practice, the autonomy and special status of the Baltic provinces vis-à-vis the rest of the empire became a significant part of the Latvian political debate. The first program of autonomy of ‘Latwija’, formulated in the RLA memorandum to Manassein, helped to set the stage for further development of territorial-political concepts in the Latvian public sphere. E.g., the later fights about the territorial autonomy among the Latvian Social Democrats around the turn of the 20th century have their roots in the same distinction: the confidence in the modernizing potential of the Russian state versus the awareness of the cultural and economic superiority of the Baltic provinces.

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Alternativni izvještaj o primjeni Okvirne konvencije za zaštitu nacionalnih manjina

Author(s): Ljubomir Mikić / Language(s): English,Croatian

The Serb National Council (SNC), a national coordination of councils of Serb national minority representatives, is an elected political, advisory and coordination entity that operates as a self-government of Serbs in the Republic of Croatia. The SNC is engaged with the protection and promotion of Serbs’ human, civil and ethnic rights, and issues of their identity, participation and integration into Croatian society.The SNC was founded per the Erdut Agreement and the Letter of the Croatian Government about the completion of peaceful reintegration, which guarantees the Serb minority self-government as well as the right to organise as based upon the centuries old tradition of Serb self-government: from church/popular parliaments, to legislative and political acts which regulated the position of Serbs in the 13th and 14th century, to the documents of the National Antifascist Council. It was established in 1997, in Zagreb, at the initiative of the Alliance of Serb Organisations (SKD Prosvjeta, Serb Democratic Forum, Community of Rijeka and Istria Serbs and Joint Council of Municipalities) and among the founders were also the Idependent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) , Baranja Democratic Forum, Association of refugee and displaced Serbs, representatives of parts of the Serb Orthodox Church (SPC) church municipalities, members of parliament and prominent individuals.

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AM Časopis za studije umetnosti i medija

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Serbia

AM Journal of Art and Media Studies (ISSN 2217-9666 - printed, ISSN 2406-1654 - online) is a scholarly journal for art theory, media studies, cultural studies, general art sciences, philosophy of art and contemporary aesthetics with interdisciplinary approach and international scope. The journal is open to various theoretical approaches, platforms and schools of thought: avant-garde theory, semiology, poststructuralism, deconstruction, performance studies, theoretical psychoanalysis, neo- and post-marxism, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, queer theory, biopolitics, new phenomenology, etc. Through artist portfolio section AM Journal is also relevant for young emerging artists from Serbia and abroad. Since 2017, the Journal is issued in English three times per year (in April 15, September 15, and October 15), both in print and in digital, open access version. The Journal was started in 2011. It is indexed in ERIH PLUS, EBSCO, DOAJ, and in the List of Scientific Journals Categorization of Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia (M52). Beginning with No. 12 2017, AM is indexed, abstracted and covered in Clarivate Analytics service ESCI.

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Ambivalentni emocionalni registri subverzivne afirmacije kao političko-umjetničkog postupka: projekt Janez Janša

Author(s): Una Bauer / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2019

Although emotional registers are often disregarded when it comes to the evaluation of conceptual projects, this article claims that, in the case of the Janez Janša project, which engages procedures of subversive affirmation, it is precisely its affective ambivalence which makes it relevant both artistically and politically. The name change of three artists to the name identical with the name borne by one of Slovenian political dinosaurs, Janez Janša, brought about complex reactions of their families, friends and the artistic context in which they operate. Those affective reactions are deeply relevant for the understanding of this project, which simultaneously attempts and refuses to present itself as artistic; in other words, it articulates itself through its own ambivalence.

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Analiza regresji z programem R – przykład użycia w badaniach politologicznych

Author(s): Mateusz Wajzer,Monika Cukier-Syguła / Language(s): Polish Issue: 55/2020

Celem artykułu jest prezentacja podstawowych możliwości programu R użytego do budowy regresyjnych modeli opisujących zjawiska polityczne. W analizach wykorzystano zbiór danych ukazujących proces kształtowania się poziomu frekwencji wyborczej w wyborach do Kongresu Stanów Zjednoczonych w 2014 roku w zależności od wieku wyborców. Zastosowane procedury statystyczne (zbudowano dwa modele: liniowy oraz wielomianowy stopnia drugiego) szczegółowo omówiono, podając ścieżki odpowiadających im poleceń. Adresatami artykułu są głównie studenci i doktoranci politologii oraz dyscyplin pokrewnych, a także badacze, którzy nie pracowali wcześniej z programem R.

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Analysis of Legislative Coalitions in the City Assemblies of Regional Capitals after the Municipal Elections of 2018 in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Jan Hájek / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The main purpose of this work was to analyse coalition practices in the city assemblies of regional capitals in the Czech Republic following the last municipal elections in 2018. The presented research aimed to analyse and described in detail the inner dynamics of the formation of party alliances at the local level, in this case represented by thirteen regional capitals and their city assemblies. General research found that there is a discrepancy between the theoretical assumptions of the theory of political coalitions and the coalition practice applied in the environment of the city assemblies of regional. The introduction of this article is followed by a part describing the methods of research, continues with theoretical part which focuses on the genesis of the theory of coalition and its outputs in the form of coalition typologies. Then we get to the analytical part that dealing with the application the theory of political coalitions to second order elections (local elections in the Czech Republic). The final part of the article contains a summary of coalition practice in the regional capitals in the Czech Republic and conclusion of this survey. The research proved that “deviant” coalitions must be regarded as a relevant alternative of minimal winning coalitions (primarily surplus majority coalitions are a frequent coalition type in city assemblies of regional capitals after the municipal elections 2018). It seems the political coalitions and alliances of local dimension are formed by specific factors, which distinguish coalitions practice in city assemblies of regional capitals from coalitions in the Chamber of Deputies.

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ANALYSIS OF THE INTEGRITY INDEX FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN THE ALBANIAN DEVELOPING REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

Author(s): Andon Kume / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This research aimed to analyze the Albanian parliamentary elections held in 2013, 2017, and 2021 in order to evaluate the process of development of representative democracy in Albania, one of the post-communist countries of the Western Balkans. The analysis was based on assessing the dynamics of the Electoral Integrity Index (PEI) as a quantitative indicator that reflects the level of fulfillment of international standards for democratic elections. The PEI was evaluated using the average perception values for 11 indicators reflecting the election process. Based on the value of the PEI2013 (54.1 scores), PEI2017 (53.3 scores), and PEI2021 (57.7 scores), the parliamentary elections in Albania were considered as processes that do not exceed the ‘moderate’ level. The non-significant difference between 2013, 2017, and 2021 PEI (p>0.05) demonstrated low progress in developing democratic performances in Albanian society.

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Analýza systému stát-diaspora v procesu budování nezávislé Arménie

Author(s): Levon Ter-Ghazaryan / Language(s): Czech Issue: 3/2021

The phenomenon of diasporas is becoming an increasingly resonant topic in political sciences. With states becomig more porous transnationalism is said to influence domestic and foreign policy development of their respective “motherlands“, also known as “mother countries“ or “homelands“. The objective of this study is to characterize the role of the Armenian diaspora in the process of building Armenia as an independent state. The paper seeks to answer the question concerning the nature and the role of the Armenian diaspora in the formation of independent Armenia. The key argument this article wishes to make is that understanding of state building process of modern Armenia after gaining the indepedence needs to feature insights into both the armenian state and its sizeable and powerful diaspora. As such, the study sheds light on the relationship between the diaspora and the motherland within political, social and economic fields. The result is an innovated view of the issue of diasporas based on the prism of instrumentalization of the host countries. An alternative approach to examining the relationship between the diaspora and its motherlands is ethnographic research, based on primary data and the use of socio-psychological and constructivist literature, concerned with maintaining collective identity under the pressure of transnationalism. The potential application of the analysis of the relationship between the diaspora and the state as a composite system can be applied to the Jewish and Greek diasporas.

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Analýza záväzkov Slovenskej republiky v oblasti obrany v kontexte rodovej rovnosti a dodržiavania ľudských práv žien

Author(s): Mária Martinská / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 3/2021

The issue of gender equality and respect for women's human rights is becoming highly topical in the context of growing security challenges. International cooperation in the field of conflict prevention and peace-keeping requires the Slovak Republic to support the increased political participation of women and strengthen their position in decision-making processes in local, national and international institutions and organizations, including the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic. The article therefore deals with the systematization and analysis of basic documents and guidelines concerning domestic and international crisis management in the field of gender equality, specifically provides information on the state of gender equality in the conditions of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic. Taking into account the gender needs of members of the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic requires the introduction of a gender perspective and the use of gender equality indicators in the evaluation of all new projects and programs, which we currently consider to be a major challenge for modern organizations.

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Ancient, Modern and Contemporary Individualism

Author(s): Tibor R. Machan / Language(s): English

An individualist usually believes that human beings, contrary to what socialists like Karl Marx or Auguste Comte thought, are first and foremost unique, irreplaceable members of the human species, capable of independent thought and action once they reach maturity, and free to choose their conduct based on their conscious thinking. As such, they require the kind of community that makes room for their independence, a community that protects individual rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of one’s chosen goals in life. Although members of the human species and thus possessing a few common attributes, human individuals are a varied lot and flourish best in communities that makes varied pursuits possible, such as the free market political economic order. From time immemorial the individuality of human beings has been evident (mostly so in creative realms such as art, religion and technology) although often suppressed by rulers who wanted a one size fits all type of society to serve their own objectives. So in various historical times it has been a struggle to forge political-legal systems that do full justice to our human individuality.

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Answers from a Real Radical - Interviews with Tibor Machan

Author(s): Tibor R. Machan / Language(s): English

Machan, a radical libertarian, addresses a wide array of political economic issues, in a variety of interviews he has given over five decades. This book is rich with insights from the classical liberal, laissez faire tradition, the only one that consistently supports the idea of a bona fide free society. Machan discusses innumerable topics with a relentless concern for securing individual human liberty in all of its dimensions.

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Anti-Colonial Neo-Traditionalism in Central-Eastern Europe: A Theoretical Examination

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Anti-Colonial Neo-Traditionalism in Central-Eastern Europe: A Theoretical Examination

Author(s): Francesco Melito / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

The enormous attention devoted to populism has simplified the framework for analysis of the “illiberal turn” in Central-Eastern Europe. Although a populist aspect is certainly present, reductio ad populismum neglects other interpretations of the current political polarization. The article contributes to the literature on the cultural aspects of illiberalism as it offers an innovative theoretical examination of illiberalism(s) in the region. It proposes the concept of neo-traditionalism as a more comprehensive lens of analysis of the anti-colonial narrative against the “foreign liberal West” to defend the “genuine traditional Europe.” Neo-traditionalism in Central-Eastern Europe captures two criticisms of progressive liberalism. First, it contrasts progressive modernizing values. Emancipation and fluid identities are counterbalanced by a discourse where traditions provide ontological security and culturally defined identities. Second, it denounces the foreign origin of progressivism. The liberal West is described as a colonial power aiming to destroy “our authentic way of life.” Thus, the populist dimension of illiberalism in Central-Eastern Europe could be better grasped if we applied the concept of neo-traditionalism. Not only are the elites isolated from the people. They are also deemed to impose a colonial project to replace and modernize true European values.

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Anti-Soros Conspiracy Rhetoric in Slovak Parliamentary Discourse: Actors, Narratives, and mplications

Author(s): Ľubomír Zvada / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

This paper contributes to the very up-to-date topic of conspiracy theory. The main goal of this study is to analyse the main 'anti-Soros' narratives within Slovak parliamentary discourse. Due to qualitative content analysis, based on N=84 parliamentary speeches and comments, the author detected four main narratives that included several conspiracies. Four concrete narratives: (1) influence on Slovak politics; (2) delegitimisation of political opponents; (3) the anti-Semitic conspiracy ground; (4) the supporter and organiser have instrumentalised George Soros to their rhetoric while combining classical conspiracies narratives. The final narrative (5) condemnation of anti-Soros rhetoric, which represents de facto only founded counter-narrative and was significantly minor. In this context, and keeping in mind that anti-Soros discourse was four times bigger than the discourse condemning the use of this rhetoric, the author argues that the continuance of this dividing verbiage based on legitimising conspiracies could contribute to further polarising Slovak politics and society. On the other hand, the popularity of conspiracy theories must lead social scientists to (re)think even more about the mainstream discourses created over the last thirty years, which conspiracy narratives naturally oppose. It should also lead to examining the actors who set the principles and boundaries of mainstream discourses.

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Antonio Gramsci: the roots of Italian communism

Author(s): Mihaela Ciobanu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2022

Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, based on the importance of consensus, is the antecedent of the recognition of the democracy by the Italian Communist Party (terrain that would be fully acquired by its successors, Togliatti and Berlinguer). Gramsci takes the word and the concept from the debates at the top of international communism and –adapting it to his theory of the “revolution in the West” – changes and innovates it profoundly in the Prison Notebooks, making it an idea that is today widespread and used throughout the world. Palmiro Togliatti, who returned to Italy in 1944, became a protagonist in the writing of the post-war democratic Constitution and theorized on the “national ways” to socialism and polycentrism; Enrico Berlinguer theorized on the universal value of democracy and the acceptance of many liberal principles for the construction of an idea of “communism in freedom”.

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