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The immediate cause of the article was the discussion launched by the editors of “Refleksje”. Its theme was the subject of knowledge in political science. The main reason for taking this issue was a book by Ryszard Skarzyński – The Basic Dilemma of Political Science: The Discipline of Science and Conventional Knowledge about Society. The Tradition of the University and the Demarcation of Knowledge...
The conflict concerning historical events between Japan and China is now more visible than ever before – once again the disputes over Senkaku/ Diaoyu islands have awakened the ghosts of the past and undermined Japanese-Chinese bilateral relations. The major problems in the politics of memory between those two Asian countries are the rape of Nanking, the content of Japanese textbooks and officials’...
The article is about contemporary role of Azerbaijan on the European and Asian countries’ energetic market. The author describes projects and trends connected with economic expansion among Azerbaijani companies. One of them, project of the Southern Energetic Corridor, is the most important for the European Union, because of its energy priorities. The biggest opponent of Azerbaijan is Russian Federation,...
The article provides a short and synthetic analysis about condition of political science in Poland. It is a voice in the debate about the subject of cognition in the discipline. The article focuses on the problem of interdisciplinarity in political science. Author argues that the lack of reflection on the subject of discipline knowledge leads to the impoverishment of its achievements.
The social protest against energy investments often postpones or completely blocks developments of many power stations in Poland. The problem concerns wind, water and coal power stations, but the most controversial is a setup of nuclear plant. Based on research carried out by the authors and CBOS, we try to answer the question, whether it is possible to get social agreement for establishing nuclear...
The article is mainly concerned with the Public Organization “Service for Poland” (“SP”). Membership of the “SP” is presented as an example of the reason for demanding financial compensation. The first part of the paper contains information about forming “SP” and its organization structure. Then different aspects of the collective memory about “SP” are brought up. Finally, the article describes attempts...
The social protest against energy investments often postpones or completely blocks developments of many power stations in Poland. The problem concerns wind, water and coal power stations, but the most controversial is a setup of nuclear plant. Based on research carried out by the authors and CBOS, we try to answer the question, whether it is possible to get social agreement for establishing nuclear plant...
In the last decade there has been a sudden and rapid development of the Internet. Together with its improvement, the issue of network security has become an important topic of a discussion over the international security mechanisms. The Internet, nowadays considered as space unrestricted by time or distance, has become an ideal place for new, previously unknown offenses and misdemeanours. Ipso facto, network...
Ryszard Skarzynski thinks that the main subject of recognition in political science have to be “the political”, which is constructed by a specific kind of group. Contrary to this opinion R. E. Lane said that political science should be freed-up by political psychology. This kind of group (“political”) is endangered by the roles played by individuals. Sociometry is a solution which helped to measure...
In the last decade there has been a sudden and rapid development of the Internet. Together with its improvement, the issue of network security has become an important topic of a discussion over the international security mechanisms. The Internet, nowadays considered as space unrestricted by time or distance, has become an ideal place for new, previously unknown offenses and misdemeanours. Ipso facto,...
The article aims at presenting the differences in the reception of Polish- Ukrainian conflict of 1943–1947 by Polish historians and politicians, as well as diffusion of the knowledge about the past with contemporary political activity. Firstly, different ideas of the relation between history and politics are described. Secondly, a presentation of three groups of Polish researchers, who study Polish-Ukrainian...
The article is about historical policies and discourses produced by modern nationalist movements, as well as centrist and left-wing. The increase in attendance and frequency of demonstrations in recent times is not due to the economic crisis, but the skillful construction of rigid political identity and setting sharp lines of division by the radical right. Representing her environment, and especially...
The aim of this article is to examine reasons and circumstances of Turkish state’s increasing interference in freedom of mass media and to present tools that are being used in this process and its consequences. However, on the contrary to majority of this type of analysis – the subject of examination is not political censorship referring to Kurdish and Armenian cases but limitation of these contents...
In the paper author makes an attempt to characterise a definition of media democracy. Author argues that nowadays the most important factor that determine a political system are media. He also point out to negative and positive aspects of „media democracy”, simultaneously describing the phenomenon of media influence on political discourse. Author considers „media logic”, broadly and profoundly defined...
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