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The present case study deals with the trilateral relationship of the student, the university, and the employer. The article describes the current state of the cooperation of organizations with other partners in their contact sphere. The article also includes a basic classification of organizations, their goals, and their ideas concerning the cooperation of organizations in this trilateral relationship. Organizations can be broken down by jurisdiction into the public and the private sector, but also by industry, by...

Measures against the Roma affected also the army. The first persecution measures began after the first conscriptions that took place in August and September 1939. According to Section 38 of the Defense Act, the Roma, together with the Jews, could not be members of the armed forces or military personnel and they had to work in special working groups. The Arians were conscripts of work service, and the Gypsies, along with the Jews, were members of working obligation. A certain change occurred after 29 May 1940, when...

This study has assessed students’ perception in what concern the Erasmus + Placement Program for Recent Graduates, a mobility that allows graduates to do a traineeship placement in an enterprise or organization in the European Community. The participants in this study are graduates of the Politehnica University of Timisoara (N=130) who have benefited from an Erasmus Placement. The research involved a survey based on a questionnaire centered on the sources of information, motivational factors, the relationship betw...

Energy is a key factor that affects all sectors of the economy and is one of the cornerstones of the economy. Energy security is part of national security and is one of the tools to ensure the country's sovereignty, political independence and economic security. The current EU security environment is influenced from a global perspective by globalization and the uneven development of states and regions in the world. There is also a noticeable trend that non-military threats come to the fore and become more burning t...

Starting from underlining the actual existence of a human society in full globalization process and from analyzing a phenomenon as old as time, i.e. human migration, we are trying to highlight in this study the relations that exist without any doubt between globalization and migration. At the same time, a review of the relations and effects between migration and the international community, between the religion and the culture of different societies that come into contact with the migratory phenomena, is performed...

The article examines modern interpretations of the term “behavioral wars” as a variety of information and psychological wars. As a methodical basis the authors applied analysis of modern publications on this theme by both Russian and foreign authors. In modern politics, information wars or information operations are the drivers of interstate relations. Behavioral wars are aimed at changing the behavior of population in the direction favorable for the enemy. Behavioral weapon is a tool of behavioral war. One of the...

The term globalization has defined the reflection on the contemporaneity of the last thirty years, according with two directives: in an interdisciplinary sense, starting from the economic sciences up to the social and political sciences; in a broader sense, in the public opinion, for the affinity between the meaning of expression and the concrete experience of individuals. The globalization represented one of those rare cases of correspondence between science and doxa, so much to seems extremely effective in defin...

The work examines the story of the Lanerossi spinning plant in Foggia, a case of a company that experienced the negative effects of the extraordinary intervention policies for the South of Italy and which, together with other industrial companies, arose in the same years and under the same auspices. a few years after its establishment, all the criteria on the basis of which the firm operated their strategic choices and the ways in which it implemented them had been questioned. The changes in public opinion and in ...

In Romania, at this moment, the framework for the analysis on water protection is specifically debated, under the effervescent pressure of pollution caused by some natural phenomena, from the sources in industry, transport, agriculture, as well as the existence of certain forms of cross-border pollution that significantly disturbs the quality of the waters by forming and depositing new sediments harmful to the environment. In order to prevent and combat water pollution, Romania, as a member of the European Union, ...

The right to mobility is one of the most important rights that form the core of the European union's passenger rights policy. However, the exercise of this right is unfortunately not equally and available to all persons. The right to transportation is not always easy to exercise for people with disabilities and people with reduced mobility. Enabling free movement and accessibility of public transport is necessary for inclusion of persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility in everyday life. Availab...

The article is dedicated to a theoretical study of a person legal status, which is one of the most important entities and, at the same time, an object of environmental legal relations, which occupies a central place in the system of fundamental environmental values. The author considers the features of the of a person status in the theory of environmental law, the problems of legislative consolidation and implementation of its basic environmental rights and obligations. In particular, the scientific discussions on...

Most specialists agree with the fact that while the number of employees belonging to the Millennial generation (Gen Me) increases, problems related to their motivation and performance become more complicated because this young generation has different preferences, expectations and attitudes towards work when compared to previous generations. At the same time, as a leader of the organization, the mission to motivate and inspire a Millennial is significantly different from the same mission as a leader of a Baby- Boo...

The pursuit of security is one of the basic human needs, which at the level of a state-organized society is transformed into the category of national security in the conditions of various social and natural man-made threats. Understanding of national security and the implementation of individual measures to maintain it are based in national interests, which are the national striving for sustainable development, improvement of welfare, improvement of technology, science and culture, strengthening the role in the in...

In the context of the processes of professionalization and modernization of political communication and mediatization of politics, the aim of the article is to show how to use social media in strategies for communicating of party leaders on the Polish political scene. The research questions concerned attempts of the politicians to use social media to implement communication marketing strategies, in particular in the aspect of engaging and mobilizing Internet users not only in the periods of electoral campaigns, bu...

Gert Biesta makes a distinction on three dimensions when he discussed the purposes of lifelong learning, the economical dimension, the democratic dimension, and the personal dimension. In this paper I would like to emphasize on the importance of democratic dimension. But it is necessary to explore some important questions. What kind of content about democracy that we would like to implement through adult education? What is the educational approach to implementing democracy? Generally speaking, democracy is related...

which provides a link between the sphere of social relations, cultural norms and political processes. It is a set of principles that influence political behavior and help systemically structure common values, attitudes, beliefs, and orientations that form the basis of the relationship between an individual, society, and the state. The stability of a political culture is based on such factors as the legitimacy of the existing system and political regime. This article discusses the features of the political culture ...

The region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which unites nineteen Arab countries, is one of the most important areas of foreign economic and foreign policy activities of the Russian leadership. It has an advantageous geographical position and rich natural resources, especially oil and gas reserves. Here are the interests of the leading world powers and the main contradictions of modern international relations of economic, political and military character intersect. The Arab countries have been part of t...

This study investigates the relationship between art engagement and the well-being of high school students from the Czech Republic, Italy and Slovenia. The research is based on data from a questionnaire survey conducted in high schools in those three countries. Five pieces of information were gathered from the students which included: life satisfaction (happiness), self-reported physical health, weekly time spent doing artistic activities, weekly time spent reading and information concerning student’s ability to p...

The capital companies in order to carry out the activity for which they have been authorized to function have 3 categories of organs: management, administration and control. The management of the companies is carried out by the general meeting, which can be ordinary or extraordinary. The control of the companies is carried out by censors or auditors, as the case may be. The joint stock companies can be managed in a unitary system (of France origin) or in a dualistic system (of German origin). The unitary system as...

The present paper outlines regional and local self-government bodies represent special management system of public administration, which consists of many interconnected elements, among which one of the most important elements is public-political communication. In this management system such subsystems are functional that are responsible for adaptation of elements of the management system at the time of changes of conditions. These subsystems which get information from outside initiate communication management meth...

The subjects of public international law are the states, as primordial subjects of international law and international intergovernmental organizations. The legal status of the individual - the natural person - within the international public law represents an important topic of discussion, both in the specialized doctrine and within the specific institutions that apply the international law. Two points of view have emerged in time: in the first opinion, legal entities are real subjects of public international law,...

The article examines the current status and prospects of development of the Russian tax system, analyzes it, considers problems and ways of its improvement. The article includes the following sections: introduction, general characteristic of tax system of Russia; elements of the tax system of Russia; prospects of development of Russian tax system. In each paragraph the essential elements of the current tax system of the state are revealed. The trends developing in the modern tax system of the Russian Federation ar...

In contemporary societies employed parents are often faced with difficulties while trying to balance their work and family obligations. Previous research showed that this negatively influences the quality of family life and results in family stress. Additionally, it causes lower level of job satisfaction and work effectiveness. Recognizing these issues, some work organizations implemented family-friendly policies in order to support employees and to help enhance their family-work balance. For the same reason they ...

Since the birth of CIS countries in the early 1990s, Turkey has prioritizes a cordial relationship with these states to date. Questions on this type of foreign policy however are on the factors that influence these decisions. Apart from the fact that, Turkey shares some common values with these countries, the region is a home to colossal amount of energy concessions. This paper seeks to analyze Turkey`s foreign policy objectives on energy within the Eurasian region, using Turkmenistan as point of reference. Author...

The article presents the analysis of the topical problems in the practice of Moscow state administrative bodies providing public services to citizens. The analysis of regulatory documents, statistical data and sociological analysis revealed legal, organizational, technological and social problems in the provision of public services. The author argues, that the core of standard and legal problems is in the lack of unified legislative base, inadequately developed order of services provision and quality requirements....

I have conducted a study which is an analysis of the most important laws created during the different ages of the Ancient Roman era, from 212 BC until 391 AD, relating to luxury, fashion and lifestyle matters. My work is, therefore, a survey through which I explored the Ancient Roman world of luxury by underlining the different laws created by emperors to limit luxury and opulence in Roman society which was a serious issue at the time. The methodology used for this paper is based on the reading and the investigati...

The EU's collective identity was built on the memory of the Holocaust and, to a lesser extent, colonialism. In the 1990s, this memory began to be replaced by the idea of Captive nations more suitable for new members from CEE and their liberation within the framework of the concept of a ‘Europe Whole and Free and at Peace’. There was a substitution of concepts and the result was a crisis of solidarity. Those integration blocks, where the convergence of the values of migrants and host societies is potentially possib...

In contemporary society, issues of social justice are considered more broadly, in an existential sense, at both the level of local communities and at a global level of world politics and have become a subject of intense debate and controversy. The leaders of radical social and religious movements are calling upon their supporters to employ terrorist tactics in the name of achieving “justice.” Reform and revolution are the main instruments used to pursuit social justice. However, is reform or revolution really the ...

Rail transport and its reforms are matters of current discussions. Member States of European Union have started to consider importance of rail transport and the necessity to emphasize it, as this matter has been underestimated in the past. As consequence, rail transport has lost its competitiveness to road transport. Due to this fact, there have been several reforms of rail transport on level of the European Union, in order to increase performance and to strengthen position of rail transport to other types of tran...

When analyzing three theoretical frameworks of public spaces, the contributions have highlighted relevant aspects of the course of the Velvet Revolution in the former Czechoslovakia in 1989. The collection of empirical information from interviews with former striking students focused on the activities of students and teachers at the Faculty of Arts at Charles university, as well as the sudden renewal of various parallel public spaces, characteristic to liberal societies. These unique forms of public action, and th...

This article is intended to discuss the prospects and the ways of constructing a new model of global development in a situation of factual and theoretical uncertainty indicated in social and political science by the concept of post-globalization. It aims at analyzing the critical and theoretical potential of the concept of post-globalization for understanding the direction of shifting the paradigms of conceptualization of the future. This research is based on contextualization, theoretical analysis, and conceptual...

Topicality. Russia was always one of the main subjects of political thought as one of influential factor in world policy. The report is focused on the history of American political thought that remains still unknown in this aspect. And attempts to better understanding of the roots of actual negative connotation of Russia and Russians in USA. Aim: to reconstruct the logic of one of political argument of the negative image of Russia in America. Hypothesis: The USA authorities did not want to put up with the fact tha...

The article is devoted to the issue of the change of China's foreign trade policy and its position in the world economy. The global economic crisis highlighted the new trends in the global economic development, bringing the economies of the newly industrialized countries to the leading positions and thus heralding changes in the international political arena. The United States, Western European countries and Japan, which after the end of the Cold War were the most economically advanced countries in the world, face...

The research study offers an analysis of the public opinion of citizens of the Slovak Republic focused on the results of the referendum vote in the United Kingdom in 2016, in which the British voters decided to leave their country of the European Union. The study also presents prevailing opinions, attitudes, preferences and values of the Slovak people on the possible impacts of Brexitis in Great Britain on Slovaks or on the future of the European Union. We used the questionnaire method in the research. The survey ...

In politics if we consider complex social systems and processes manifests itself the dichotomy between “stability and manageability” of a political system and “socio-political diversity” which brings modernization impulses that are making political systems more diverse. This is especially noticeable for the states in transition with anocratic political regimes and supranational entities. This kind of social dichotomy, however, should not be confused with the pure dichotomy between democratic and authoritarian tend...

After the end of the military operations and the German occupation of Poland, the border areas around ?adca in Kysuce Region and Spiš region were joined to Slovakia. The population enthusiastically received reconnection of the territories to Slovakia. After the calming of the situation on the border, the formation of new public administration structures began. The situation at the borders was finally stabilized after the signing of the Slovak-German Border Treaty, on 21 November 1939 in Berlin, which temporarily d...

This paper focuses its attention on how, in a Southern Italian region like Puglia, the environment has been affected by infrastructural policies about the use of the water resource. The management and administration of the water resource and the rules about the use of public water and the pattern of socio-economic development were linked to the limited availability of this essential natural resource. The paper seeks to suggest that the use of water is dependent on peculiarities of social and cultural developme nt ...

Russia is a country with a high level of international migration. Due to the geographic location of the Far East, China and North Korea used to be the main donor countries for international migration, but in recent years, the international migration from CIS countries is developing. The present situation poses special challenges for the migration policy, including: the development of the labor market taking into account international migration, the reduction of social tension between the local population and inter...

Introduction. Legitimacy is a political and legal concept that means a positive attitude of the population to the existing institutions of state power. Society in the 21st century has become very multicultural, and in the context of the strongest economic globalization there is a clear division of people on racial, ethnic and gender grounds. It becomes more difficult to find a compromise among such a diversified society. In addition, globalization has led to closer international cooperation as the governments of s...

Image making of politicians is nowadays a pre-set, specially managed and construed process aimed at the key objective of drawing attention to specific individual, party or political process. Quite often such images do not match the real personalities and their features, they only exist on the cognition of political supporters as reflection of the developed image. The images, however, serve as the key tools that provide support, attract attention and votes by electorates, raise to trust, expectations, etc. The aim ...

The main purpose of this article is to actualize study of the features of regional political leadership positioning from the point of view of the possibilities of its transformation in the modern information society of Russia. It is suggested that the role of public expertise is growing in modern Russia, and, moreover, becomes an operative institution for the co-governance of social and political processes in the regions of the Russian Federation. The authors of the article consider aspects of regional political l...

The article highlights the issues of international student mobility and the process of choosing the country to go to study abroad. South Korea is on the third place in the list of top East Asian countries hosting international students from all over the world. The article presents the results of the research on Russian students graduated from the universities in South Korea and its motivation to study abroad. Data collection from the semi-structured interviews revised the perception of educational system of Korean...

Small towns have a crucial role in the formation of the communal political process in the Czech Republic. Small towns are a place where the sphere of independent politics, associations of independent political associations and mixed with high politics and parties represented at the national level. The aim of the article is to answer the question of the role of the inhabitants of small towns in relation to the political representation of the municipality. The authors aim to point out the specifics of the municipal ...

The problem of ensuring effective state management in the context of an exceptionally complex and unstable socio-economic environment, formed by the network society and economic realities, remains invariably relevant in today's globalizing world. As a result, the concept of the Open Government was formed and the basic principles of the work of this system were worked out. Its main task is to transform the internal and external relationships of the traditional government through the use of communication networks to...

The article is devoted to the actual problem of transformation of the PRC government's foreign trade policy strategy after the beginning of the world financial crisis in 2008. Unlike the major industrialized powers of the West, China, whose economy has been in a state of continuous economic growth for the past 40 years, has not suffered much from the crisis and has significantly strengthened its political position as the main force of economic stability and growth in a new era. The authors note that for modern Chi...

This paper aims to rebuild with an historical approach Italian management of migration flows during last Government Berlusconi (2008-2011). The research focuses specifically on political strategies carried out by Italian right-wing Government of that time, to highlight reasons and effects of their evolution in national and international framework. The starting hypothesis is that migration issue became the main resource to gain electoral consensus in political competition and, in the meantime, an instrument to unba...

The research suggests an approach to improvement of the mechanism of strategic planning and monitoring of the sustainable development of territories. The need in strategic planning of sustainable development and monitoring exists both in Russia and abroad. There is also practical experience, which allows speaking about problems in this area. We believe that one of the most important problems in the current practice of strategic planning of the sustainable development is in the interconnection of two constraints. O...

The new information technologies used in the contemporary conflicts and the overall availability of social nets generates number of usable information for their actors. This new information environment breeds the chance of conducting the sophisticated and targeted operation of disinformation and effective impact on the actors involved as well as regional or global ones. While the information and propaganda dimension is not a completely new phenomenon, technological development has greatly strengthened its importan...

Prospects for the development of social education in Russia are considered. Factors are formed under the influence of the development of Western experience and trends; specificity of domestic practice of social institutions. Education as a social institution has a social leading character. We need to use new approaches, innovations in social problems solving. The aim of the study is to determine the prospects for the development of education in the sphere of social work. In the research, based on questionnaires an...

The status of the Roma population in Slovakia remained very difficult in the 2nd half of the 20th century. They lacked job opportunities and high proportion of the Roma was still living in very poor conditions in shacks in the Roma settlements. They lived without basic hygienic conditions and without access to education, often illiterate. For this reason, in the 1950s, the social integration of the Roma population and raising their cultural level became the most important tasks. It had to be decided whether the Ro...