Book Review: Wojciech Marcin Stankiewicz, Wektory rozwoju współczesnej rzeczywistości międzynarodowej a siła niektórych zagrożeń patologicznych, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2012, pp. 224

Pathologies are considered to be one of the cell elements of culture-civilization life. This phenomenon has been known since the beginning of the formation of organizational structures of humans, including social and political ones. High esteem should be taken to refer to the essence of revealing the scale of pathological phenomena in contemporary international realities. It is noted that the various entities that generate international order undertake actions to reduce and eliminate them. This is an extremely difficult cognitive challenge, due to the fact that violence is often regarded as the way of achieving objectives, as well as that it is very strongly associated with legitimate state structures.