Some Lessons of Collective Protests in Central European Post-Communist Countries: Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and East Germany between 1989-1993

Author(s): Máté Szabó / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

When thinking about the traditions and the cultural heritage of contemporary protest movements, it is worth noting that East Central European history in the twentieth century has not been very rich in manifestations of political protest (Rotschild, 1989: 147-191; Schöpflin, 1993: 127-224). Despite recurrent political upheavals, revolutions, wars, and so on, protest as understood in the present paper – that is, public mobilization of support for specific demands - is not very widespread in the countries of the region.

Europeanists, Eurogovernmentalists, and Eurosceptics: A Constructive Criticism of Previous Research

Author(s): Petr Kaniok / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The task of this paper, which is limited both in length and scope, cannot be a presentation of every existing typology of party Euroscepticism. Nor can it attempt to describe in detail the concept of Euroscepticism, its development and current usages. The paper will mainly attempt to briefly summarize the previous research on the topic, point out possible weak points, and attempt to present a new typology that the author developed while researching his doctoral thesis.

Pojam evropskog građanina i pitanje solidarnosti

Author(s): Milorad Stupar / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Evropsko građansko društvo: realna perspektiva ili nemoguća misija!?

Author(s): Jasmina Trajkoska / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Stvaranje bipolarnosti i/ili multipolarnosti na evropskim periferijama

Author(s): Dejan Jović / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Evropska Unija u sijenci krize i zenit međuvladine saradnje

Author(s): Mirko Đuković,Petar Marković / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Evropeizacija nacionalnog identiteta u procesu evropskih integracija Srbije

Author(s): Zoran Lutovac / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

Globalna demokratska recesija i stanje političkih režima na prostoru bivšeg SSSR-a

Author(s): Boris Varga / Language(s): Serbian Publication Year: 0

In this article the author analyses types of political regimes in states of former Soviet Union. The analysis is twofold: firstly – on discourse of global “democratic recession”; and “raise of authoritarianism”, and secondly – on political regimes in 12 post-soviet states. The author concludes that global democracy is going through a specific type of crisis. That crisis is also reflected in the zone of transition states. Strong authoritarian countries, such as Russia and China, increase their political and economic influence in the transitional post-Soviet states, which also influences their political regimes. The state of regimes in ex-soviet states is followed by their geopolitical tendencies to merge in political and economic alliances which cut-across Eurasia. States that are in a process of democratic consolidation and whose regimes are hybrid are inclined to EU, while the (semi)consolidated authoritarian states are more inclined to Russia or integration to Eurasian economic block.

CSD-Report 32 - Radicalisation in Bulgaria: Threats and Trends

Author(s): Rositsa Dzhekova,Mila Mancheva,Maria Doichinova,Lyubomira Derelieva,Tihomir Bezlov,Maria Karayotova,Yavor Tomov,Dimitar Markov,Miryana Ilcheva / Language(s): English

The phenomena of radicalisation today develop and change at high speed, with their extreme forms manifested globally. The destructive dimensions of (violent) Islamist or right-wing radicalisation have become dramatically visible in Europe posing serious challenges to European societies at large. This report aims to address a knowledge gap with regard to how and to what extent internationally observed radicalisation processes are manifested in Bulgaria. Four different forms of radicalisation are investigated, including Islamist radicalisation, right-wing and left-wing radicalisation, as well as football hooliganism. The report provides policy makers and the expert community with a systematic overview of the main risks to which the Bulgarian society is exposed, as well as of the main actors and ideas, the repertoire of actions and the groups at risk associated with radicalisation. The report outlines recommendations for improvement of the policy and institutional response with regard to radicalisation by way of monitoring and prevention measures as well as multi agency collaboration and community engagement.

The Dynamics and Sustainability of the Rose Revolution

Author(s): Ghia Nodia / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

This essay seeks to identify what the case of Georgia – more specifically, the Rose Revolution and its aftermath teaches us about the nature of revolutions and the prospects for democracy in countries that are, well, like Georgia. The phrase ‘countries like Georgia’ refers to countries and political regimes that are not democratic, but which cannot be considered classical dictatorships either. Such countries have both authoritarian and democratic elements in their political systems (and the democratic elements are not just a façade), so there are some internal political dynamics that make the prospects for the implementation of the democratic project not completely hopeless. This description relates to a very large part of the world that is often called the ‘grey zone’ – a reflection of mainstream political science’s inability to find some kind of acceptable term for it. Therefore, this essay is structured according to the conceptual problems that exist around the democratisation project in our world – and about which the experience of the Rose Revolution in Georgia has something to say.

The Orange Revolution: Explaining the Unexpected

Author(s): Hryhoriy Nemyria / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Very few experts predicted Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. Nonetheless the unexpected happened. Therefore the first question to ask is: What are the underlying sources and causes of Ukraine's breakthrough to democracy? The answer would bring us to a more vital question of how does one sustain healthy domestic political change. We then try to assess the potential of a wider impact of the Orange Revolution which has to do not just with Ukraine's immediate neighbours but also relates to the phenomena of overlapping integration spaces,1 including partnership and cooperation with the European Union, the Euro-Atlantic agenda and developments within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). It is clear that there was no single cause that triggered the Orange Revolution. It came as a result of interaction between various factors, the most important being the role of civil society, national identity, the nature of political institutions and modes of external pressures. Needless to say, it would be misleading to concentrate only on the political process before and during the presidential elections in 2004. There are different ways to explain the revolution depending on how deep one wants to dig. I would suggest that there were three distinctive periods in the genesis of the Orange Revolution: i) 1991-2001: maturation, ii) 2002-03: incubation, and iii) 2004: breakthrough. Basically these 14 years since the break-up of the Soviet Union and Ukraine's newly obtained independence [from above] witnessed a very gradual and uneven process of growing differentiation in the initially rather homogeneous post-Soviet space which was best [described at the beginning as a ‘legacy paradigm’.]

Zašto se zemlje raspadaju - slučaj Jugoslavija

Author(s): Vladimir Gligorov / Language(s): Serbian

Vladimir Gligorov je ovu knjigu napisao na engleskom, pre 20 godina, na severu Evrope, pretpostavljamo dosta usamljen u starom univerzitetskom gradu Upsala, u Švedskoj. Te davne 1994. knjige su se još uvek slovoslagale, a ratovi devedesetih su bili u punom jeku: ratu u Bosni se nije video kraj, a rat na Kosovu je još uvek pripadao dalekoj budućnosti. Kao jedna od prvih studija o raspadu Jugoslavije, knjiga Zašto se zemlje raspadaju – Slučaj Jugoslavija je imala ogroman uticaj na zapadne autore koji su se bavili ovom temom. Pred vama je prvo elektronsko izdanje ove knjige na engleskom i njen prvi prevod na naš jezik.

Why Do Countries Break Up? - The Case of Yugoslavia

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

The book deals with the violent and inconclusive break up of Yugoslavia. The author relies on the rational political choice approach to construct an explanation that (i) given the preference of the exYugoslav nations for ethnic justice over individual liberties and rights, and (ii) given the influences of the long terra ethnic strategies and rivalries, the legacy of the four decades of communist rule, and the complexities of the post-socialist transformation process, the break up of their common country was what it took the Yugoslav nations to try to realize their political preferences. In Chapter 1 the process of “Balkanization” is discussed. First, the theory of constitutional choice is criticized. It is shown that the assumptions (stated and unstated) on which the theory is founded are not mutually consistent. Second, it is argued that that makes the idea of self-determination inoperable and self-destructive. Yugoslavia was founded on the principle of self-determination; it has been dissolving in accordance with the same principle. Third, the illusive idea of individual and ethnic identity, of the “self”, in the Balkans is described and analyzed. Fourth, the implications for the failure of any constitutional idea to be accepted as legitimate in Yugoslavia are drawn. In Chapter 2 the process of the discovery of liberalism during the communist rule is discussed and the reasons for its failure given. All the classical liberal ideas were discovered in Yugoslavia in conflict with the socialist principles; they failed to play a key role in the transformation of the country because they did not arise from an idea of a Yugoslav state. In Chapter 3 a “straightforward explanation” of the break up of Yugoslavia is given. It is argued that the state did not break up for economic reasons (as a way to get out of socialism), but for the following two reasons: (i) independent ethnic state is the long term strategy of Serbs and Croats (the two dominant Yugoslav nations); (ii) political preferences came to dominate the economic ones in the process of transformation. Given the goals and the preferences and given the facts of the ethnic configuration, the break up of Yugoslavia was inevitable and it inevitably had to be inconclusive. In Chapter 4 the contribution of the communist legacy is discussed and the record of individual and collective rights left in the ex-Yugoslav states is reviewed. It is shown that none of the newly established states has achieved a significant increase in those rights and is far from any ideal of a liberal state. In the conclusion, the idea that “Balkans are different” is rejected and it is argued that the failure of the principles of civic rights and international order to be respected and implemented will invariably lead to the same set of outcome. In that the importance of the case of Yugoslavia lies.

ПРИНОСИ КЪМ ТЕОРИЯТА И ПРАКТИКАТА НА ПУБЛИЧНАТА АДМИНИСТРАЦИЯ. Двадесет години специалност „Публична администрация“ в Софийския университет „Св. Климент Охридски

Author(s): Tatiana Tomova,Todor Tanev,Aleksandar Marinov,Albena Taneva,Atanas Slavov,Milena Stefanova,Elena Kalfova,Yordan Botev,Simeon Petrov,Maria Kotseva-Tikova,Denitsa Hinkova,Lyubimka Andreeva,Aleko Djildjov / Language(s): Bulgarian

All the studies presented in the annual collection have a common basis. These are the values of modern good governance. It seems as if individual authors have stated that good public administration is primarily subordinated to public values and not just to regulations. Therefore, it sees the administration as a civil service in the spirit of responsible bureaucracy and as a co-author in the formation of public policies. Leading economic, sociological, socio-psychological, political and philosophical concepts find co-existence in published research.

Gender a demokracie: 1989 – 2009

Author(s): Michaela Appeltová,Nina Bosničová,Kristýna Ciprová,Jitka Gelnarová,Eva M. Hejzlarová,Alexandra Jachanová Doleželová,Kateřina Machovcová,Jana Smiggels Kavková,Linda Sokačová,Alena Wagnerová / Language(s): Czech

Příspěvky ve sborníku, který právě otevíráte, jsou diferencovány nejen generačně, - mezi nejstarší a nejmladší autorkou je rozdíl skoro padesát let -, ale i stylem psaní, používáním zcela jiných obratů i zdůrazňováním jiných detailů. Je dokladem toho, že v této republice se již etablovala tematika gender i feminismu, že veřejnost i média se o problematiku žen zajímají, ženy se samy organizují a učí se, či se již naučily zakládat občanská sdružení a organizace, jimiž se prosazují. Dostaly se z letargie, či naučené pasivity, která se objevovala v předchozích desetiletích, kdy iniciativu za všechno přejímal stát. Svým způsobem je tento sborník imponujícím přehledem toho, co se již podařilo a současně i základem historie, která se teprve tvoří a píše. [...]

Polityka – edukacja – płeć kulturowa. Z perspektywy antropogiki społecznej

Author(s): Elżbieta Górnikowska-Zwolak / Language(s): Polish

Politics is a ubiquitous term today. The author, a representative of social pedagogy (anthropogics), analyzes various approaches to politics, focuses on social and educational policy, looking for a place for gender politics. In her dissertation, she provides a critical insight into the educational policy in Poland after the 1989 political transformation. On the one hand, education is here understood broadly, also outside school, in the public space, from where messages about the educational dimension flow. On the other hand, the focus is directed to selected aspects of gender politics and education, which are critical to the development of girls and women, especially sexual education and reproductive rights. The end of writing the thesis coincided with the outbreak of the Revolution of Women (Autumn 2020), who called for democracy and their civil rights. The publication can help readers understand why this happened.

DAYTONSKI MIROVNI SPORAZUM I BUDUĆNOST BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian

Dvadeset prvog novembra 2015. godini navršilo se 20 godina od potpisivanja Daytonskog mirovnog sporazuma. U želji da ispune svoju društvenu i naučnu misiju dva odjeljenja Akademije nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine, Odjeljenje društvenih i Odjeljenje humanističkih nauka, inicirala su održavanje naučnog simpozija na temu Daytonski mirovni sporazum i budućnost Bosne i Hercegovine. Naučni simpozij je održan 19. novembra/studenoga 2015. godine u Akademiji nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. Njegov koncept ustanovljen je u okviru Odjeljenja društvenih nauka i Odjeljenja humanističkih nauka. Prema njemu oblikovane su četiri tematske cjeline za koje su pozvani autori pripremili ukupno 19 referata. Dva referata su pripremljena iz oblasti istorijskih, četiri iz pravnih, pet iz ekonomskih te osam iz oblasti politološko-socioloških nauka i međunarodnih odnosa. Svi pripremljeni i izloženi referati predstavljaju rezultate pojedinačnog naučnog istraživanja složenog kompleksa pitanja koja se odnose na istorijski kontekst u kome je potpisan Daytonski mirovni sporazum i na njegovu primjenu u socijalnoj i političkoj zbilji tokom proteklih 20 godina.

Lucrările conferinţei de cercetare în construcţii, economia construcţiilor, urbanism şi amenajarea teritoriului

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian,French

Includes full papers presented in the research conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development

Current Trends in Public Sector Research: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference

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

It was a real pleasure to serve as the Head of the Programme Committee of the Current trends in Public Sector Research conference, which was held in Brno in January 2019. During last years the conference became one of the main floors for the debate of experts in public economics, the non-profit sector, and public administration. The conference regularly hosts researchers involved in modeling public sector policies, evaluating their impact on public finance and social policy. The second group of researchers is usually devoted to public administration topics, such as responses to organizational changes, public sector leadership, or effectiveness of administrative services. This year edition of the conference aimed to bridge the gap between these two main tracks of the conference. The main conference topic – the experimental and behavioral research in public administration – uniquely links theoretical research with public administration applications.

Disidentstvo u suvremenoj povijesti

Author(s): / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian

The international scientific conference "Dissidence in Contemporary History" was held on November 19, 2009, at the Croatian Institute of History in Zagreb. The conference was organized by the institute's project "Power and Society: The Communist System of Governance in Croatia 1945-1990", and the immediate impetus for its organization was given by Mr. Daniel Ivin. The organizing committee conceived of the topic of dissidence to be approached exclusively analytically, with an emphasis on the following questions: methodological problems, historical-political framework, the system in Croatia and Yugoslavia, the attitude of foreign countries towards dissidents, individuals, social groups and movements in Croatia, the relationship between politics and culture and "case studies".