Issue 1

Table of Contents 47(1)

  • Author: The Editors
  • Institution: Polish Political Science Yearbook (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 1-4
  • DOI Address: -
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/toc.pdf

Polish Political Science Yearbook, 47(1). Published online: March 31, 2018. The Polish Political Science Yearbook is international peer-reviewed journal indexed in: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) Online, BazHum, Central and Eastern European Online Library, Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (cejsh.icm.edu.pl), Columbia International Affairs Online, Cosmos Impact Factor, Directory of Open Access Journals, Electronic Journals Library, ERIH Plus, Gale PowerSearch, Google Scholar, HeinOnline, IBR – International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences, IBZ – International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences, ICI Journals Master List, International Political Science Abstracts, Open Academic Journals Index, POL-Index (Polska Bibliografia Naukowa) and The Lancaster Index.

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Petrol and Natural Gas Market of the Visegrád Group Countries 1993–2016: Current State and Prospects

  • Author: Robert Kłaczyński
  • Institution: Pedagogical University of Kraków (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 7–19
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018101
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018101.pdf

The paper addresses problems related to energy policies pursued by Central European countries. It identifies the amounts of energy resources in individual countries in the Visegrád Group as well as the transmission infrastructures they use for natural gas and crude oil. The author discusses projects aimed at diversifying energy supplies which are of key importance to V4 countries. The article also presents relations between those countries in both within the group and bilaterally. When outlining prospects of a V4 energy strategy, the account is taken of such vital aspects as relations with the Russian Federation and the contribution made by Visegrád countries to EU actions designed to develop a single energy market.

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Polish FDI in Central Asian Countries

  • Author: Krystyna Gomółka
  • Institution: Gdańsk University of Technology (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 20–38
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018102
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018102.pdf

Since gaining independence, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan gradually opened their markets to foreign investors. Before Poland’s accession to the European Union, the activities of Polish investors in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were based on bilateral treaties concluded by Poland with those countries. Later, except Turkmenistan, they were governed by the partnership and cooperation agreements between the European Communities and their Member States. Despite the ample investment opportunities and favourable conditions for access to the market, the activity of Polish companies in these markets has not produced a significant effect. Poland invested with more considerable success on the markets in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It made investment attempts in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, leaving out Turkmenistan. The reason why Poland has a weak position in these markets is the distance between the partners and inability of Polish companies to effectively compete with large multinational companies which have been operating there for years. In the Kazakh market, good investment prospects are available for waste management, petrochemical, mining and road construction companies. In Kyrgyzstan, there are cooperation possibilities in the area of modern agricultural and processing technologies and establishment of fruit and vegetable processing enterprises. In Tajikistan, enterprises can invest in petroleum and natural gas extraction and exploitation, the fuel market, processing of precious metals and construction of conventional and hydroelectric power plants. In Turkmenistan, Polish companies can compete for road, railway and housing construction contracts, whereas in Uzbekistan they can invest in businesses covered by government tax reductions.

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Assessing State Support for the Development of International Economic Cooperation: a Case of Polish Trade Support Institutions’ Export Recommendations for Turkey

  • Author: Oskar J. Chmiel
  • Institution: University of Wrocław (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 39–53
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018103
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018103.pdf

In times of increasing significance for national policies which support international economic cooperation, a special role is played by state trade support institutions (TSIs). This paper investigates whether such TSIs can be said to operate effectively, through an analysis of one essential element of the support provided to domestic entrepreneurs, namely export recommendations. The recommendations provided by Polish TSIs in respect of Turkey is employed as a case study. The theory of comparative advantage along with a neo-institutional perspective provide the conceptual framing for this analysis, in conjunction with both desk research, document analysis, and selected economic indices. Factors such as trade potential, comparative advantages, and the competitiveness of selected product groups exported by Polish firms to Turkey were also taken into account. The findings largely indicate that TSI export recommendations are adequate, and the majority of the recommended industries demonstrated considerable sales opportunities. Nevertheless, some discrepancies were also noted, which should be an issue for further investigation by both researchers and TSI analysts. Furthermore, the case study in this paper demonstrates that the choices within economic promotion policy – despite its partition between variously-oriented TSIs - were made on the basis of economic rationality.

 

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Transitional Justice in Relationship to Public Sphere and Civil Society: Theoretical Approaches

  • Author: Edyta Pietrzak
  • Institution: Łódź University of Technology (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 54–66
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018104
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018104.pdf

The article presents the entitled fields in the framework of their mutual influence. The notion of the public sphere is valuable for understanding the role that civil society plays in transitional justice processes. However transitional justice often reduces the idea of civil society to NGOs and ignores the social movements and civic engagement in the public realm that can be perceived as integral to the creation of new cases for understanding justice in transition. This fact results in the lack of perception of the civil society place in transitional justice processes. Thus the presented paper is based on hermeneutics, critical discourse analysis and dialogue between various theoretical approaches.

 

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The Role of Trauma in Romania’s Ontological Security

  • Author: Loretta C. Salajan
  • Institution: Vasile Goldis Western University in Arad (Romania)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 67–76
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018105
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018105.pdf

This paper analyses Romania’s foreign policy during the first post-communist years, by employing a theoretical viewpoint based on ontological security and trauma. It uncovers the elite efforts to secure the post-totalitarian state’s identity and international course. Romania’s search for ontological security featured the articulation of narratives of victimhood, which were linked with its proclaimed western European identity. The Romanian identity narrative has long struggled between “the West” and “the East”, trying to cope with traumatic historical events. These discursive themes and ontological insecurities were crystallized in the controversy surrounding the Romanian-Soviet “Friendship Treaty” (1991). Key Romanian officials displayed different typical responses to cultural trauma and debated the state’s path to ontological security, which was reflected in the foreign policy positions. 

 

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Set the Torturers Free: Transitional Justice and Peace vs Justice Dilemma in Burma/Myanmar

  • Author: Michał Lubina
  • Institution: Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 77–96
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018106
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018106.pdf

Burma/Myanmar seems to be a perfect ground for transitional justice with both long-failed transitions to democracy that seemed to succeed in 2015 finally and smouldering civil war taking place there since 1948 (since the 1990s limited to Borderlands). Unfortunately, the political realities in Burma/Myanmar make it unlikely, if not impossible, for transitional justice to be applicable in Burma/Myanmar. The victorious in 2015 elections democratic opposition party, National League for Democracy (NLD) came to power thanks to the political deal with the former military government and is consequently being forced to cohabitate politically with the army that still holds critical political checks over the government. It made NLD’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to conduct moderate domestic policy without trying to charge the generals for their former crimes. In this circumstances, transitional justice is unwanted by mainstream political actors (NLD, the army) and seen as threatening to peace by many in the Myanmar society. This approach firmly places Burma/Myanmar on one side of the ‘peace vs justice’ dilemma. It answers the “torturer problem”, one of the central problems of transitional justice – how to deal with members of the previous regime which violated human rights – in ‘old fashion’ way, by granting them full amnesty. As such Burma/Myanmar case also falsifies an optimistic claim that transitional justice is necessary for political reforms.

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“Right to Truth” and Memory Laws: General Rules and Practical Implications

  • Author: Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias
  • Institution: Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
  • Author: Grażyna Baranowska
  • Institution: Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 97–109
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018107
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018107.pdf

The “right to truth” relates to the obligation of the state to provide information about the circumstances surrounding serious violations of human rights. Despite its increasing recognition, the concept raises questions as to its scope and implementation as well as its existence as a free-standing right. Similarly, “memory laws” relate to the way states deal with their past. However, there are certain „memory laws” that, while officially serving as a guarantee for accessing historical truth, lead to its deformation. As a result, an “alternative” truth, based on the will of the legislators, is being imposed. In this article, the authors elaborate on the general nature of the new legal phenomenon of the „right to truth”, as a tool of transitional justice, in particular in the context of both providing and abusing historical truth by the legislators, through the instrument of “memory laws”.

 

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Co-Production of Public Services in Terms of the Polish Experience

  • Author: Robert Gawłowski
  • Institution: WSB University in Toruń (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 110–120
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018108
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018108.pdf

Co-production of public services is an increasingly popular tool in public management, although it is still a new phenomenon in Poland. Despite the attention researchers give to co-production, some significant gaps remain. In this article, the author attempts to examine the legal possibility of implementing co-production by the Polish local government by local initiative and Solecki Fund. The article aims to examine how major Polish cities gathered in Union in Polish Metropolises used local initiatives. The next step in research is to find out how Solecki Fund is spread among rural areas according to statistical data. It is proved that only a handful of local governments in Poland are truly engaged in co-production. However, Solecki Fund can be shown as an excellent example of citizens’ engagement. It is presented a possible agenda on what can be done to make co-production more popular and used on a regular basis not only in metropolitan but also rural areas.

 

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Provoking Debate on Central European Security

  • Author: Wojciech Michnik
  • Institution: American University in the Emirates (UAE)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 123–125
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018109
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018109.pdf

The seminar focused on the Security Challenges in Central Europe organised by PPSY was held in Toruń on February 21, 2017. The leading topic of this event could not have been apter as the last years in the region brought back serious questions about stability and security of the region. From the domestic challenges – like the rise of populist movements; to more resurgent foreign policy of Russian Federation; instability of so-called Eastern flank; through the questions about coherence of both NATO and the European Union – Central European states found themselves in a situation unprecedented since the end of the Cold War. It can be even argued that Central Europe come to strategic crossroads that would determine future of the regions and its countries in particular.

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Discussing Changes in Contemporary International Relations

  • Author: Michał Dahl
  • Institution: Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 126–129
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018110
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018110.pdf

The paper reports the 9th Polish Conference on International Relations: 2017 – a Year of a Change organized by the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń on June 2, 2017. It presents not only the scope and process of this years’ conference but also briefly describes the idea of annual meetings of young Polish scholars interested in widely understood international relations. The conference report presents accompanying events of the conference, which gave its ninth edition unique atmosphere. It also points out the way this years’ conference contributed to the unification of the community of students and PhD students in Poland who are researching a variety of subjects related to international relations.

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Ukraine after the Revolution of Dignity and Imperial Aggression

  • Author: Tomasz Lachowski
  • Institution: University of Łódź (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 130–133
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018111
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018111.pdf

The paper reports The 3R (Three Ukrainian Revolutions) Symposium: Revolution, War and Their Consequences, which took place in Warsaw (Poland) on March 16-17, 2018. This multilayer event was organised as a part of the project named The 3R (Three Ukrainian Revolutions), initiated in the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw) in 2015, to provide the comparative studies over three revolutions witnessed in Ukraine in the last three decades. The 2018 conference gathered current and former politicians, diplomats, practitioners, scientists, journalists and social activists coming from mostly Ukraine and Poland, as well as the other states around the globe.

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The New Vision of Public Education in China

  • Author: Moon Yonglin
  • Institution: Seoul National University (South Korea)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 137–138
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018112
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018112.pdf

Book Review: Zhu Yongxin, New Education Experiment in China. New York: McGraw-Hill Education 2014 (pp. 324). ISBN 978-0-07-183817-7. Price: 106.00 USD.

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Diplomacy in the ‘Age of Trauma’

  • Author: Patryk Wawrzyński
  • Institution: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 139–144
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018113
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018113.pdf

Book Review: Erica Resende & Dovile Budryte (Eds.), Memory and Trauma in International Relations. Theories, cases and debates. Abingdon-New York: Routledge 2016 (pp. 280). ISBN 978-1-138-28949-9. Price: £28.99.

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Social Media: the New Forms of Political Expression

  • Author: Beata Zielonka
  • Institution: University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 145–146
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018114
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018114.pdf

Book Review: Wojciech Opioła & Malwina Popiołek, Media społecznościowe. Nowe formy ekspresji politycznej. Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek 2014, (pp. 196). ISBN 978-83-8019-097-9.

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The Remembrance Policy and Political Identities during Post-Authoritarian Transformations

  • Author: Anna Wójcik
  • Institution: Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 147–150
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018115
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018115.pdf

Book Review: Joanna Marszałek-Kawa, Anna Ratke-Majewska & Patryk Wawrzyński, Polityka pamięci i kształtowanie tożsamości politycznej w czasie tranzycji postautorytarnej. Analiza porównawcza (Tom 2). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Difin 2016 (pp. 167). ISBN 978-83-8085-209-9. Price: 50.00 PLN.

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Ukraine and the End of Post-Cold War Europe

  • Author: Alicja Stańco-Wawrzyńska
  • Institution: War Studies University in Warsaw & Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)
  • Year of publication: 2018
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  • Pages: 151–155
  • DOI Address: http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2018116
  • PDF: ppsy/47-1/ppsy2018116.pdf

Book Review: Derek Averre & Kataryna Wolczuk (Eds.), The Ukraine Conflict. Security, Identity and Politics in the Wider Europe. Abingdon-New York: Routledge 2018 (pp. 251). ISBN 978-1-138-04743-3. Price: £115.00.

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