- Author:
Agnieszka Szpak
- Institution:
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
- Year of publication:
2016
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
54–77
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2016.52.03
- PDF:
apsp/52/apsp5203.pdf
The author analyses the manifestations of cities’ growing role for ensuring the national/international as well as environmental and human security. Cities of today increasingly participate in international relations – they internalize, implement and enforce international law, sometimes independently of their States’ international legal obligations, for example when they pledge to implement human rights conventions or environmental law obligations that their own States did not pledge to fulfill. In this way they contribute to international peace and security. On the basis of those manifestations, the author attempts to explain the possible position of cities on the international plane and according to international law – whether they should be accorded greater autonomy or international legal personality. The author also indicates that the role of cities in the area of different aspects of security is growing.
- Author:
Petr Vorel
- E-mail:
Petr.Vorel@upce.cz
- Institution:
Ústav historických věd Fakulty filozofické Univerzity Pardubice
- Year of publication:
2018
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
46-63
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/hso180303
- PDF:
hso/18/hso1803.pdf
- License:
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative
Commons Attribution license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
The article deals with the consequences of a political agreement between King Ferdinand I and a part of the Bohemian opposition nobility, concluded in 1547 in order to restore stability following the Schmalkaldic War (1546–1547). The change in the tax system put Bohemian royal cities and owners of large estates at a considerable disadvantage while profits from manor farming and financial services remained virtually untaxed. This tax structure, applied for several decades, resulted in a rapid increase of debts and the ultimate collapse of the entire tax system in 1615. The resulting financial crisis was resolved by the Bohemian Landtag in 1615 by declaring bankruptcy of the treasury and taking over tax collection.
- Author:
Liliia Hrytsai
- Institution:
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
- Year of publication:
2020
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
21-35
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2020.67.02
- PDF:
apsp/67/apsp6702.pdf
During the last decades, alongside the growing role of cities, the process of urbanization has been receiving more and more attention from the European policy-makers. This study analyzes the evolution of the EU urban agenda establishment since 1970s till the present times. In the first part, the paper presents five stages, most important milestones and core programs regarding the urbanization process in Europe. In the second section, the author pays a special attention to the Urban Agenda for the EU (the Pact of Amsterdam) as one of the key documents promoting the sound cooperation among the European urban policy stakeholders. In the final part, the paper provides the evaluation of the EU urban agenda’s genesis by indicating the main features of this process.
- Author:
Zbyszko Górczak
- E-mail:
zbyszkog@amu.edu.pl
- Institution:
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9258-145X
- Year of publication:
2021
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
116-130
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/hso210305
- PDF:
hso/30/hso3005.pdf
- License:
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative
Commons Attribution license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Organisation of the Polish State and Society in the Piast Era in the Academic Work of Aleksander Gieysztor and Gerard Labuda
The main theses of the authors concerned the mutual relation between social changes and the formation of state organisation, the militarisation of the Early Piast State (G. Labuda) and the question of the native, pre-foundation beginnings of urban life in Poland. In their research, A. Gieysztor and G. Labuda often used the methods of retrogression and comparison; in addition, G. Labuda appreciated the importance of archaeological findings.
- Author:
Adam J. Jarosz
- Institution:
SGH Warsaw School of Economics
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0972-5588
- Year of publication:
2023
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
152-171
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2023.80.09
- PDF:
apsp/80/apsp8009.pdf
The paper proposes new models of neighbourhood governance and their typology, which enable to understand, categorise and compare the neighbourhood governance structures in the urban areas. The models were based on the institutional and functional setting, in which the bodies created, their competences and instruments for their implementation, along with the amount of financial means at their disposal define the character of the model. As a result, three alternative models were created (administrative, intermediate, and participative). The second part contains the results of research conducted in 66 Polish county cities. Their neighbourhood governance systems were categorized and put into the frames of the proposed models. It was proved that only Warsaw implemented the administrative model, and most of the cities practice the intermediate and participative models.
- Author:
Agnieszka Szpak
- Institution:
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
- ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7601-1230
- Year of publication:
2024
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
131-150
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2024.84.08
- PDF:
apsp/84/apsp8408.pdf
This article has been inspired by the vision set out in the UN Secretary’s report General Our Common Agenda (2021) and the report of High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism entitled A Breakthrough for People and Planet. Effective and Inclusive Global Governance for Today and the Future (2023). Given the growing role of cities in international relations, the research aim of this article is to answer the question: how to make multi-level governance more effective? The author argues that more effective multi-level governance has to be more inclusive and that cities should be formally included in international decision-making processes. The author also makes the case for the growing role of cities in international relations, cooperation and addressing global problems, including migration, climate change and pandemics such as the recent Covid-19.