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This study aims to analyze differences between gender attitudes of migrants and local population in 8 countries of Western and Northern Europe. It tests whether migrants from developing countries, especially from the Muslim world, tend to follow European trends in their attitude towards gender equality or they tend to treat gender equality issues in the same manner as in their countries of origin. This topic is of particular importance as attitudes towards women's rights are proven to be a strong predictor of supp...

In the wake evolving crisis in the Crimea, the other side of the Black Sea descended into political turmoil. Demonstrations calling for resignation of de facto President took the streets of de facto state of Abkhazia, a region of “frozen” conflict since 1992. The subject of analysis of this article is to uncover factors that formulated the attitudes of conflict parties toward each other, conceptualization of this armed conflict by Georgian administration and Abkhazian political elites, as well as changes in th...

The dynamical development of the Slovak economy called for the realisation of the variety of changes in the field of the Slovak enterprise management. The building of the economy based on the knowledge became the building of the organisation oriented in the active application of the knowledge, skills and informations. The above fact actually relates also to the control of the bodies of the public self-government and territorial self-government. The Government is fully aware of the fact that Slovakia needs a proper...

In the Czech Republic new non-profit nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) were established and replaced the previous centrally-controlled state organizations since 1989. Currently, over 100 thousand are registered there. Since this time NGOs are developing together with their mutual cooperation with profit organizations. It forms social pillar in corporate social responsibility concept. The cooperation is supported indirectly by state with tax base reduction in case of financial gifts provided to NGOs. The coopera...

While sovereignty remains a hallmark of the increasingly globalized international system, the major powers are in particularly interested in offering directions to global politics, by taking the lead in formulating goals and policies, and thus promoting their vision. The present paper considers that these plans can be regarded in the terms of “hegemonic” enterprises - projects directed by a great power/ group of great powers for influencing other states through the interaction rules and public goods provided. ...

The paper deals with the management of employeesВґ performance in the institutions of the state administration of the Slovak Republic and its comparison with selected OECD countries. The possibilities to enhance the performance of the state administration employees were depicted on the basis of the survey carried out on a sample of 192 respondents of the Financial administration of the Slovak Republic (FASR). In this context, the research question was formulated and its answer may identify current motivation of em...

Under the condition of forcing industrial and innovative processes and creation of UEA there is an objective need to develop scenarios for the competitiveness of uniting the key strategic provisions of programs of modernization of economy of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. Changing the structure of the economy becomes an obligatory condition to overcome the negative structural trends, especially in the fuel and energy and food complex, but as above-mentioned, in the absence of energy and food export-import policy ...

When Iranian nuclear programme as well as its involvement in Syria in combination with a strong antagonism against own Israeli existence create significant threat, which might not be omitted. Subsequently, it seems to be important to outline possible scenarios of war conflict outcomes, if reciprocal threat will crescent to inevitable power answer. Such conflict will have strong impact to adjacent Arabian countries, the European Union members and United States of America as well.

Study offers an attempt to a systematic approach to the problematic of current and potential impact of regionalization and regionalism on contemporary international relations. Estimation of the results of last European Parliament elections suggests that a large proportion of its new members would be selected from among the opponents of European integration. This is certainly unpleasant consideration since most of the critics of integration have been in the previous period from outside of the European Union institu...

This paper analyzes the relationship between political changes and the press in the years of 1989 and 1990, which will be illustrated with an analysis of local newspapers published in the town of Zadar, Croatia. The paper is based on the analysis of articles on political changes published in local Croatian newspapers Narodni list and Fokus. The period analyzed here covers the time when monthly publication of Fokus was published, i.e. from February 8, 1989 to September 22, 1990. The period, among other things, was ...

The article, written on the basis of the results of participant observation, analysis of documents of Muslim educational institutions, publications of the Muslim organizations of the post-Soviet Tatarstan, periodicals, secondary research, describes the development of the modern system of Muslim education in Tatarstan through the prism of use of its capacities in countering the spread of the ideas of radical movements. The author analyzes the structure of the religious (Islamic) education in the region. There is al...

Parliamentary life as a dominant pattern of expression of representative democracy,is often characterized by parliamentary political crisis. Democracy does not represent a perfect system of values and a system of desires and dealism of people. Democracy primarily represents a permanently developing process, which is characterized by constant conflict of interests in attempts to influence political policy and lining of the political and democratic life actors. This political conflict is best expressed in parliament...

The paper devotes to the problem of equal integration of the States of Sub-Saharan Africa into the global informational and communicational space. Author argues that during of the postcolonial history the governments of Africans countries tried to reduce the dependence from well-developed nations. But their desire to become a part of global informational and communicational space actually encourages the increase of the dependence but not the reduction of it.

The process of NATO enlargement received rather strong and exhausting criticism both in the academic and political sphere. However, only very few of the dire predictions about the negative impact of NATO enlargement have come true. No new dividing lines have been drawn in Europe. The new NATO members have always supported the NATO open door policy and have tried to help further NATO candidate states to get ready for the NATO enlargement. The deterioration of the NATO ability to provide collective defence has been ...

The paper reflects some of the recent researches and observations of the author about the new trends in the transformation of the political spectrum. The traditional political families underestimated the appearance of The Greens in the mid 70's and 80's. Now the green ideology is well known to the public and the green followers especially in Europe represent a formidable power. Till 2006 The Greens were a lonely riders on the political arena as a nontraditional actor, but with the existence of The Pirates that is ...

Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has been going through a permanent adaptation process that has changed NATO beyond recognition. Many scholars and politicians reached the conclusion that NATO had become an organization more similar to a collective security organization than a traditional military alliance. Although the changes in NATO were very fundamental, they do not justify such a radical conclusion. NATO is further focused on dealing with security threats coming from areas outside the territory of its membe...

The working is devoted to a critique of the liberal rethinking such nodal categories for the Russian science though (philological, linguistic, philosophical, ethnological and others) as the Russian nation, nationality and Russian idea. Rethinking is carried out by the liberal authors under influence of the American mythologism, pragmatism, the concept of conditional (conventional) linguistic sign. The methods of the application in the USA mentioned artificial concepts were introduced in social life and politics lo...

The phenomenon of process management has belonged for recent times to the most interesting topics for specially purposed discussions in Slovakia as well as abroad. It becomes the matter of interest and also of professional discussion among the managers in private and state sectors reflecting the period of life where there are specific expectations on one hand to place the demands on effective work of organizations but on the other hand on their living out procedure in the area of fast competitive growth of other i...

Contracting entities choose criteria to evaluate bids for public contracts. The Act on Public Contracts offers two basic ways to evaluate bids for public contracts: the lowest tender price and the economic advantageousness of the tender. The economic advantageousness of the tender consists of the price and other criteria chosen by contracting entities. The importance of the price in case of economic advantageousness is lower than in the case of the lowest tender price. The basic evaluation criteria affect number o...

The Act on Public Contracts defines two basic evaluation criteria: the lowest tender price and the economic advantageousness of the tender. The paper concentrates on the price, discusses its advantages and disadvantages, risks and consequences of the evaluation according to the price. The analysis of the usage of the price is based on the data from the Czech Republic from years 2011 - 2013. Contract notices were collected from the Information System on Public Contracts, large data file consisting of several thousa...

This paper is based on a research among elite leaders of right-wing extremist organizations operating in Central Europe. This research primarily dealt with a process the activistsВґ identity has been constructed, especially in relation to personal experience and reflection of social changes since the fall of the socialist totalitarian regimes to present day. One of the research questions explores how they perceive their own freedom, freedom of others and how they understand the concept of freedom in general. A met...

The given work is connected with the concept of extremism, which is one of the key problems of the modern world, and the football fans movement as a part of an extremist one. The urgency lays in the importance of studying football extremism discourse. The object of the work is the football extremism discourse. The data of the research are articles and books about football fans from the Internet sources. Methods of the research are analysis of dictionary definitions and component analysis. It has been established t...

Gender equality has not been an objective for the first policies of private sphere. Policies of gender equality have followed a slow and arduous path, entering the public sphere first and only much later the private sphere. In Romania, although the communist regime has implemented policies of equality in the public sphere, it was not interested in gender equality in the private sphere After 1990, policies of gender equality in the private sphere were implemented, unfortunately often without an authentic public deb...

Socially responsible corporations is considered from the standpoint of the search for a balance of interests among all stakeholders. The specificity of current Russian practice of corporate social responsibility is analyzed from the point of view of necessity of creation of specific mechanisms, combining a socially responsible corporate strategy with effective partnerships with public authorities. The author argues that the organizational expression of such interaction become economic institutions, able in practic...

Social aspects of interaction of authority and business discussed from the point of view of assessment of efficiency of application of tools of solving social and environmental problems of defining business activity in the territories of presence. In accordance with the Russian specificity of the interaction of state bodies and business structures in the territory of presence proposed to be implemented in the framework of the model of social partnership through the exchange of resources as the basis of relations o...

In Macedonia lacks scientific efforts to elucidate the right of Albanians for a constituent status in the constitutional level, supporting him in the historical background and taking into account the real demographic interethnic structure in this republic. Indeed, the Krusevo Republic (1903) presents the direct source for Albanians statebuilding since they were introduced in the state subject and constituent element. The effort made for the progress of the position of Albanians in the republic with the constitutio...

Background In the last decade, many national governments have promoted sustainability reporting by adopting laws and regulations that specifically mandate such forms of disclosure. This paper examines how Estonian legal acts support sustainability reporting within local governments, which have been the cornerstones of the existence of the modern Estonian state and nation – as our famous scientist and politician Juri Uluots maintained in 1933 [1]. Methods In this case study, content analysis was used as a qualita...

The aim of the following paper is to analyze how the local cultural government and his formal or nonofficial cultural policy in condition of the Czech Republic can help to the small and medium subjects from the culture sector, support them and the regional development also. Qualitative research as a part of two research projects was done through the semi-structured interviews. Partial results and findings are available at this moment, but seems to be able to help in practical life of municipalities already. We int...

A significant cultural shift in the global community is reflected in a dramatic form in the cultural processes for over the last 30 years. This paper will analyze the focus of modern fascism (neo-fascism) on the atomization of national cultures, disintegration of international community, legitimacy of racial nationalism and other aspects which significantly actualize further studies of the given phenomena. We consider the problem through the prism of “cultural images” of fascism and the principles of its forma...

In the presented report are exploited the results of research at the Center for Creative Leadership (USA) as well as some observations of the author, which confirm the changing nature of leadership. The older models give way to a new concepts and theories, such as super-leadership, spiritual visionary, connected leadership, etc. Along with that we are witnessing a new phenomenon – mass movements without personalized leadership, such as “The Indignant”, “Occupy”, “Anonymous”. An attempt to „measureв...

The paper tells about distinctive features, problems and prospects in the field of corporate social business responsibility in modern Russia. The structure of the system of measures of control actions of big business for sustainable socio - economic development of the regions cannot be the same as for the country as a whole and for each individual region. The participation of companies in the development of the regions should be strictly voluntary. Strategically minded management of large corporations builds its p...

This research paper is devoted to the issue - the development of a regional cluster-oriented policy of Russia and other developed foreign countries. The purpose of this paper is to research aspects of the integration of structural elements of the cluster as well identify opportunities and challenges during the formation of food industry clusters. In this research paper theoretical and empirical research methods are used, e.g. literature review and the survey of industrial clusters representatives, building a cogni...

Republic of Macedonia in the early nineties became independent from other former states of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as a result of overall(vast) political, social and economic changes that took over (fell upon) Eastern European countries in the late eighties. After the dissolution of former Yugoslavia and the changes in the economic and political system in Republic of Macedonia, a new democratic system should be established based on equal ethnic and cultural rights, where the human rights and their freedom,...

Study offers an attempt to a systematic and historical approach to the problematic of political culture on the case of Czech Republic. Czech Republic, as well as most of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, we can still rank among countries in transition. Czech Republic belongs to this category not for incomplete economic transformation, but rather the still unfinished process of transition from non-democratic to democratic state, although certainly belongs to those, that are closest to democracy. The leve...

The contribution is focused to prove necessary of establishing the qualification requirements for the performance of the mayor to legislation of Slovak republic by the introduction of continuing problems in the practice of self – government. The dynamic development of society requires a flexible response to emerging issues. Educated employees in the public administration constitute a guarantee for effective use of resources. Increasing the qualification in state government is one of the modernization changes, bu...

Fitting in with the current research paradigm, studies in the image of the world, as a system of principles that are used to organize a person`s worldview, indicate that politicians` hidden intentions could be revealed by the semantic analysis of their verbal output. To this aim, we reconstructed the general tenets of the image of the world of the most prominent Russian politician – Vladimir Putin, analyzing his 2854 responses to questions in his live public interviews in 2010-2012 by means of the Information Sy...

In the past few years, scientists from different countries examines the factors affecting the competitiveness of high-tech industries. Much attention is paid in the literature to scientific and technical progress and the effects that it receive from developed countries. In developing countries, the effects of new technologies arise very late. This is because developing countries do not have sufficient technological capabilities and dynamic capabilities. The development of these countries is due to borrowing of new...

The career of a public worker represents a reality of contemporaneity, being a truly complex career, very important and well designed in any modern, democratic state. A public worker's career represents the fundament of any educated, regulated and modern society, and it's characterized by professionalism, community spirit and continuous development. The public worker in Romania, occupies an important place inside the state mechanism, being a real liaison between the power and the people. A public worker must fulfi...

This study presents an analytical framework for understanding the conflict in one of the most dangerous regions of the world – the South Caucasus. This article follows the logic of qualitative research to “scale down” and trace the bellicose aspects of armed conflict. The overall objective of this research is to identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for the transformation of conflicts into armed conflicts in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. I argue that armed conflict in the South Cau...

In the article the results of research of efficiency of interaction of state bodies and business structures in the territories of presence. Defined indicators of sustainable development of the regions, which considerably influence the activities of large corporate structures. The results of the analysis can be used in the process of formation of mechanisms of interaction of state bodies and large corporate structures, and in conducting a comprehensive assessment of the efficiency of this interaction.

Position of the Roma ethnicity in Slovakia is unsolved problem. Even the communist regime was forced to admit that the Roma problem really existed. It admitted that solving the Roma issue was inadequate. And more Roma population themselves were not interested in solving their specific problems. The existence of specific Roma organization seemed to be beneficial. Such organization would have knowledge of their environment, language, traditions and mental characteristics. Its aim was to engage Roma population in sol...

The evolution of political party systems in the Slovak and Czech Republic is very specific during last 25 years. It is really questionable if it is stabilized right now or if some other changes can be expected as still new parties emerge. The article deals with current position, influence and strength of relevant political parties in the Slovak and Czech republic within the context of the election to the European parliament in May in 2014 and compares the results with the last parliamentary election in both countr...