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The article deals with the views of representatives of the American political science, such as S. Lipset, E. Raab, N. Smelser and others on the problem of extremism. The aim of the study is to determine the factors that contribute to the development of extremist movements and the factors that prevent extremism in a democracy. American scientists demonstrate that this phenomenon is pre-conditioned by both objective and subjective factors, a certain state of the political system, the citizensВ’ education level, the ...

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...

This paper has the purpose to highlight that organized crime, terrorism and fraud do not always operate distinctly from each other, and sometimes are in a strong relationship, rely on each other, and use the same methods and mechanisms to reach their goals and purposes. The methodology used for this paper is made of scholarly articles and articles relevant for the current topic, retrieved from the web as sources of information. Over time, terrorist organizations have been using fraud schemes to increase their inco...

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 В‘Europe Whole and Free and at PeaceВ’. 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 poss...

The article covers developments of interstate relations in Central Asia that were launched in 2013 when Chinese “One Belt, One Road” initiative was announced. The OBOR project factored into Central Asian countries economic development strategies rethinking. Positive attitude towards Chinese initiative became general tendency. Central Asian states saw the OBOR project as an opportunity to provide economic growth by allowing them to generate revenue from China-Europe Central Asiango turnover as well as by provid...

The article discusses some problems of federalism in Russia, which have recently become particularly acute. These problems are related to the specific functioning of the mechanisms of mandatory rotation at the level of heads of subjects of the Russian Federation. The aim of the study is to show that they are rooted in the peculiarities of the system of federative relations that has been formed over the past 20 years of modern Russian history. Using historical method and also methods of structural-functional analys...

The text deals with the current phenomenon, ie the process of increasing representation of the number of women in the armed forces, both in combat and non-combat units. The process of engaging women in military operations is not a very modern phenomenon; the feminisation of the armed forces has been manifested in modern armies during the WWII. At that time, however, it was primarily conditioned by the need to supplement the insufficient standard male element in the mass army based on the conspiracy model, especial...

The article considers an actual issue of how important is the language aspect in state-building. In history, there are many examples where the language of one of the cities or region became the language of the emerging state and, at the same time, the basis for the formation of its national unity, common culture and identity. The article analyzes the role of language as one of the main connecting elements of the country. History shows that polylinguism always hinders the formation of a single state, and the presen...

Civic education is characterized by the fact that it is a continuous component of education, both formal and non-formal learning, including education of adults. This area of education is an important part of education, which is characterized, in particular, by dynamism. Significance and positive impact of citizenship education on the formation of active citizens is widely declared through a wide range of international documents (European Union, UNESCO, UN etc.). The influence of the state in this type of education...

In recent volatile geostrategic environment have been multiplicated number of actors and threats. Due to faster operational tempo, it is a crucial to keep interactions between politicians fulfilling their political tasks to improve society and generals responsible for forces development, equipment, training and proper usage. Smoother dialogue might save lives and resources, whereas any misunderstanding costs the same and has a negative impact to their society. Behavior patterns are showed in Hitler-Guderian and Ch...

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...

The school system in Slovakia is going through various changes since 2008, which also affected the field of teachers' development. The main change in the field of teachers' development was the adoption of Act 317/2009 - the Teacher Act. The Act defined the credit system and career development. The problem, as demonstrated by the practice during nine years, was the automatic linking of teachers' education to their wages. In the presented contribution, we map the views of the main actors of the school system on the ...

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...

The paper deals with the application of the methods of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in the area of the eGovernment development evaluation. eGovernment is one of the current priority trends of public administration modernization in the European Union both at the level of the governing bodies of the EU and the individual member states.It is a way to government transformation in sense of increasing of the availability, effectiveness, transparency and accountability and one of the possible options how to prov...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of transaction costs in investment in renewables in Poland. The subject of the study involves investment in wind farms. The research concerns the years 2005 – 2017. The European Union has formulated specific goals for the development of renewable energy. Directive 2009/28 / EC of the European Parliament and the Council has set a target for the EU countries to achieve by 2020 a 20% share of energy from renewable energy sources (RES) in final gross energy consump...

The study aims to explain motivational and behavioural patterns of political participation of Russian university youth in the context of contemporary trends in youth political participation in Europe and beyond. It is based on a sociological survey conducted among a sample of 976 students aged 18-21 in 12 higher education institutions of Sverdlovsk Oblast, a region found to be representative of RussiaВ’s youth at large. The findings show that, in line with a global trend, beside alienation from conventional politi...

Tunisian Jasmine revolution in January 2011 was closely monitored by media and experts from all over the world. It supposed to be the first and great step towards democracy. It took only 29 days and president Zine El Abdine Ben Ali left the country. A wave of enthusiasm followed, and Tunisians expected huge improvement of their lives. However, democracy does not mean automatically prosperity. Herein are discussed main reason, that helped revolution to run successfully and peacefully, what was the expectations of p...

The study and research of extremism is extremely topical. Extremism touches every country. Increasingly, it also appears between intelligent populations or directly at universities. This theme deserves its space because it is Europe's modern geopolitical problem. The article consists of two parts. One part is theoretical and the other part is practical. The theoretical part was devoted to classical definitions such as: extremism, radicalism, but also political extremism and the resulting right-wing extremism and l...

Voter apathy or the lack of interest to participate in the electoral process by ordinary citizens in the Republic of Macedonia, has been and remains one of the main issues that the electoral system of the country is being faced with. In fact, during the last couple of elections voter apathy has shown growing trends, while no real mechanisms to limit it have been set in motion. In fact, voter apathy in certain electoral cycles has even threatened the legality of the entire electoral process and the legislator of th...

After the end of the military operations and the German occupation of Poland, the border areas around ?adca in Kysuce Region and SpiВљ 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 ...

In its analysis of various legal regulations and data from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic concerning harassment, and namely sexual harassment, the article highlights how sociological discourses and legal decisions have reflected upon this specific form of discrimination, which is regulated by international, European as well as national means. The article first considers two major principles of sexual harassment ? 'quid pro quo' and a 'hostile working environment'; later, international, European as well ...

Studying of socio-pedagogical and psychological issues of foreign students adaptation in Russian higher education institutions allows to determine the contradictions between: the demand of organization of educational support in first year of training that effectively promotes social adaptation and immaturity of these issues in higher school pedagogics; the demand of Russian higher education system in theoretical developments on issues of social adaptation of foreign students and the lack of educational background;...

The proposed text focuses on the conflict analysis and application of current typologies and methods within its framework. It sums up the overview of the most relevant methodological approaches and tries to highlight their limits in the analysis of the current conflicts, which have by far more different characteristic features than in the past. At present time the characteristic features of military conflicts have appreciably changed in comparison with military conflicts which have been happening in the past. Expe...

Diplomacy has been an extremely important in the development of civilization from its beginnings to the present days. More broadly, diplomacy presents the design and implementation of the foreign policy, models of the foreign policy, international negotiations and professional activity performed by diplomats. The paper presents the development of the diplomacy from its origins in the era of nation Maya, throughout the Middle Ages, specific forms of creating and building relationships that have developed within the...

Nowadays the world is changing in many ways. There is a significant influence of the climate change, which can make natural disasters even stronger than before. Moreover, the disaster consequences are more serious due to rising living standards in developed society, the rising level of urbanization, technological development, migration and density of population, and other changes in environment. The organizations of crisis management in public administration have to implement a number of measures to react to these...

Border delimitation processes in the past decade have been characterized by involvement of interdisciplinary professionals such as: Legal experts, land surveyors, geographers, political scientists, historians, security experts, along with border practitioners engaged in the real aspects of border demarcation, delimitation and management. Frontier disputes caused various challenges to new countries of former SFR Yugoslavia. This article provides an overview of the dispute and debates on border demarcation process b...

The very nature of the elite phenomenon urgently requires researchers to use an integrated approach, especially in analyzing the system of their core values laid down in each professional community. Since the elite always points to the best that exists in every professional community, the study of the axiological and acmeological data of the elites is the most important condition for any elitological analysis. Empirical measurements can reveal the quality of a particular elite in the current time (“here-and-nowв...

In 1990, Romania opted for an electoral system of proportional representation (PR) which remained in place until the 2004 elections. During this time, every electoral cycle had been marked by different reforms and/or amendments to the electoral law. The electoral reform from 2008 and the subsequent transition to an alleged single-member majority electoral system (SMP) – which still retained a major component of proportionality – occurred in an environment characterized by a sense of profound disappointment wit...

The article focuses on the integration implementation in Central Asian region. The integration process is perceived through the concept of positive and negative integration based on works of Jan Tinbergen. The goal is to show the role of interregional organizations such as the European Union (the EU), the Eurasian Economic Union (the EEU), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (the SCO) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (the CSTO) in promoting Central Asia as the whole region. Such cooperation falls ...

The concern for the subject treated in this paper came from the perceptions generated by the impressive sequence of events on the international scene in which the speed, the diversity, the agglomeration and seriousness of events make not only the specialists in foreign policy and international relations analysis wonder which are the answers, how are the macro and micro decisions in international politics made, who are the actors and how do they react to such situations that affect our daily lives. We are witnessin...

The article is devoted to the pressing issue of the transformation of Russia’s and China’s foreign policy strategies in Central Asia in recent years. The prevailing aspect of economic approaches as the basis of practical implementation of the “strategic partnership” concept is the main feature of these two states’ policies in Central Asia. However, the two countries maintain military and political cooperation, each of them upholding its own political interests. China’s tactics is in its active support of t...

This article is devoted to the actual problem of transformation of foreign policy strategy of China in Eastern Asia during the last years. The main aspect of Chinese policy in the region are domination of economic approaches and practical embodiment of “soft power” concept. China seeks to transfer reviews about problematic points in economical interaction with the region`s countries and decisions about territorial disputes from the multilateral level to bilateral level, furthermore actively counteract to the p...

Background: The main goal of this article is the study of the citizenВ’s attitudes to corruption in Russian megalopolises as a problem of the human resources quality development. On the one hand we have got an information about level of negative citizenВ’s attitudes to corruption, but on the other hand there is opportunity to give them some rules to prevent from to be corruptors. Therefore, there is one of the channels for quality development of socially responsible members of society. Methods: The author have des...

The article deals with the structure of the civil society forming in Russia. A lot of attention has been given to this phenomenon recently both in theory and in practical terms. Over the last years, major changes have taken place in the social and political life of Russia. New institutions have appeared. According to their formal features they can be assigned to the elements of civil society. However, there are some opinions that civil society in Russia is still in its infancy. The article analyses the reasons why...

This paper analyzes a political phenomenon as a process of sequential information exchange which connects all groups of individuals in a dynamic system in space and time. The symbolic essence of information exchange assumes paramount importance in relation to political communications because symbols, representing imperiously significant meanings in texts, constitute grounds for identifying political objects in human perception. It is approved that in political context information is modified, constructing social m...

The article is devoted to a very urgent problem of political and economic settlement of the situation in Afghanistan in the context of multilateral cooperation with the SCO countries. Since the 2014 NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan the situation in the country has become aggravated, the Taliban are trying to challenge the Central government in Kabul through both repeated terrorist attacks and seizure of some mountainous regions of the country. Taking into account the current strataВ’s support of terrorists in Afgh...

While distancing themselves from Eurosceptic views, major findings have been critical in their assessment of certain theoretical approaches that have focused on various scenarios of the reconstruction of the European institutional framework through modification of the economic, political and social subsystems. To put it more specifically, individual perspectives proposed by European intellectual opinion leaders, such as Ulrich Beck and JГјrgen Habermas, have offered different solutions for their improvement. When ...

This article raises issues related to development of a modern stateВ’s foreign policy in the context of intensifying the processes of economization of foreign policy and politicization of economy against the background of globalization transformations. In this regard, economic type of diplomacy as smart power allows medium and smaller nations to participate in international processes with maximum efficiency. Special part of the article is dedicated to reviewing the influence of globalization on strengthening the r...

Economic and social issues were together with migration crisis in Europe top issues of parliamentary election campaign in the Slovak Republic in 2015/2016. Relevant political parties performed their proposals for future social and economic orientation of the country. Ruling social democrats (DIRECTION-SD) called for fixing their social program and present new initiative in that area (in sense of deepening of current social program). On the other hand, small right (opposition) political parties emphasized the neces...

In the European vector, the Kingdom of the Netherlands certainly plays a key role and is one of the main political and trade and economic priorities in the foreign policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in September 1992, Kazakhstan-Netherlands cooperation has been developing dynamically and fruitfully. Political relations between the two countries are actively developing. The relationship is characterized by its intensity and constructive dialogue; trade and economic...

Modern society is characterized by a common desire to pursue higher education after school. This is defined as a measure of democracy. Is it truly so? Do all school graduates must pursue higher education? Perhaps this universal movement determines the life plans of a school graduate and pushes him\her to choose what is approved and give up on what is interesting and where he or she could achieve certain success. In this article, we would like to focus on the overall concept, which was adopted by society and has ch...

At European Union level is the regular adaptation of the principles laying down the basic standards dealing with the area of migration and asylum policy. European Union external migration and asylum cooperation has increased as the result of the integration and the current refugee crisis resulting in a new instruments of cooperation with the third partner countries. This article reflects on an overview of forms of European Union external actions with a pointing out the current situation in Slovak republic. The stu...

The concept of Europeanization can be perceived as a phenomenon affecting all components of sub-national, national and multinational society, however, in the last period, most academics consider it more from the perspective of so called “bottom-down” approach, whose ambition is to explore the peace, form and dynamics of the impact of European integration on society as such. This means that European policies, European legislation, culture, values, and the very existence of the EU have a comprehensive influence ...

The main objective of economically well-performing enterprises nowadays is to be competitive. Providing services through outsourcing is a strategic move not only in private sector but also in the public sector. Strategic outsourcing is the process of engaging the services of a provider to manage essential tasks that would otherwise be managed by in-house personnel. Outsourcing of business activities and services is one of many new trends in business development, reducing costs and increasing quality belong to most...

Lobbying is a common phenomenon in absolutely any legal and political system. The Soviet system was not an exception. Lobbying in the Soviet Union had its own specific traits associated with the peculiarities of the political system and, consequently, with the special aspects of the political decision-making process. Besides, lobbying was not legally established in the Soviet Union. The article is focused on lobbying role in the business/government interaction. The author analyzes the history of lobbying developme...

The paper considers the first stage of Finland's Russification. The period from 1899 to 1917 is often characterized in the national historiography as a long period of forced russification and oppression. The main methods of research were: review, classification of historical documents and scientific articles on this subject, statistical data analysis, generalization methods. The policy of the Russian Empire towards the Grand Duchy of Finland in late XIX – early XX centuries was named Russification of Finland. It...

Contemporary forms of work with children and youth with behavioural problems are based on the holistic approach (the experience of successful methods and application according to the assessment of the professionals). Different authors underscore the importance of combining different approaches, methods and techniques of direct work with users with behavioural problem in educational institutions (individual, group, workshops and small rehabilitative programs). The goal of this research was to explore the experience...

Primarily factor determining potential of power and impact of policy elite (force of elite) is recruitment of elite, i.e. selection of candidates.[11] Research of recruitment process of policy elite shows that there is a wide variety of criteria and ways how candidates for policy elite are selected and chosen. Moreover, importance and mutual hierarchy of these criteria have changed over time and there is no single theoretical standard for recruitment process. As the title of the article indicates, the focal point ...

The paper is devoted to a geopolitical and geo-economic interest of China in the Arctic Region, as one of the main trends in the modern Chinese foreign policy is transformation of political and economic grounds of todayВ’s world order. The presented research is targeted at finding and revealing causes of the given trend. The main methods of research for this trend are observation, review and classification of articles on this problem, statistical data analysis, methods of generalization and forecasting. The paper ...

The concept of “hybrid” (from lat. «hibrida» - admixture), which is very common in botany and zoology, is difficult to refer to the international law. In the conventional sense it means an organism or an organule that originates as a result of breeding of genetically different forms. But nevertheless this definition stably settled in political sciences to determine one of the society conditions – a warfare that may have a hybrid character which means using military and non-military tools in an integrated c...