Assumptions of the theory of regional disintegration: suggestions for further research

2017 ◽  
pp. 10-22
Author(s):  
Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
The World ◽  
The Eu

The crises that hit the EU after 2008 brought about disintegration tendencies. That requires not only further in-depth research on the state of the Union, but also theoretical conceptualisation facilitating an explanation of the processes of disintegration. In this article four theoretical approaches to carry out this type of analysis are proposed, which in a multilateral way may help to explain the problems of the regional disintegration in Europe, but also in other regions of the world. Author’s approach is based on existing theoretical concepts: neofunctionalism, constructivism, institutionalism and realism. Author seeks the complementarity between the theoretical approaches in order to explain the phenomenon of disintegration.

scholarly journals Existing state and future opportunities to use selected fuels and alternative propulsion systems in Poland

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Gis
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Cells ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
The State ◽  
Propulsion Systems ◽  
Motor Transport ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Situation ◽  
Alternative Propulsion Systems ◽  
The Eu

The article presents the state of existing and future forecasts for a vehicle park equipped with fuel cells in the world. Reference has also been made to the current and future situation in the area of hydrogen refueling infrastructure in the world. The situation in the above-mentioned area in Germany is discussed, which is one of the leading countries in the hydrogenization of motor transport. A proposal for the development of hydrogen propulsion technology in Poland has been presented. In a similar scope, reference is made to the issue of electromobility in road transport, both in the world, in the EU, and in Poland.

scholarly journals Religious Diversity and The Challenge of Multiculturalism: Contrasting Indonesia and The European Union

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Muhammad Wildan
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Tensions ◽  
The Eu

As the profile of religions in the world is changing rapidly, religious diversity is becoming a more common phenomenon nowadays in almost every society. Indonesia and European Union (EU) are not an exception to be more diverse and plural societies. Although religious diversity gives such richness of culture in society, religions are known as vulnerable entities. Many social problems caused by religions brought about various conflicts and violent actions on a big scale and also numerous hostilities, discriminations, and hatred on a small scale. Many regulations have been issued to address such social tensions both in Indonesia and the EU. However, many conflicts, hostilities or discriminations are recurring in both Indonesia and EU states. Interestingly, in many cases, hostilities and discrimination even done by the apparatus of the state. The current paper is dedicated to explore how these countries deal with religious diversity and whether there are social tensions and discriminations occurred. Religion as a common phenomenon in the world should be seen more as a challenge for every country rather than a contentious threat.

20. Acting for Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hill ◽  
Michael Smith ◽  
Sophie Vanhoonacker
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
International Role ◽  
The Eu

This chapter summarizes the volume's major findings and revisits the three perspectives on the European Union: as a system of international relations, as a participant in wider international processes, and as a power in the world. It also considers the usefulness of the three main theoretical approaches in international relations as applied to the EU's external relations: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Furthermore, it emphasizes three things which it is clear the EU is not, in terms of its international role: it is not a straightforward ‘pole’ in a multipolar system; it is not merely a subordinate subsystem of Western capitalism, and/or a province of an American world empire, as claimed by both the anti-globalization movement and the jihadists; it is not a channel by which political agency is surrendering to the forces of functionalism and globalization. The chapter concludes with an assessment of the EU's positive contributions to international politics.

scholarly journals "Caine's Stake": Aimé Césaire, Emmett Till, and the Work of Acknowledgment

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey McCall
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
The State ◽  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Political Work ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
French Communist Party

Our reasons for avoiding death are manifold, encompassing among others, motives that are personal, political, and historical. Still, are there ways that we might use words to overcome these common everyday aversions to death and the dead through another modality of language, that of poetry for example? Can the poetic word get us to acknowledge the particulars of death despite the various reasons we have to disavow it? Might we use language not simply grasp death abstractly (or more accurately, fail to grasp it) but instead to realize what death means in its awful particularity? These questions are prompted by Aimé Césaire’s poerty and his prose, and by his elegy for Emmett Till in particular. Through his writings and his political work, one of Césaire’s key aims was to get people to acknowledge what they would prefer to avoid.  Césaire’s work, both his poetry and prose, urges readers to see the things they would prefer not to see and to show us how language stakes us to the world in all its terrifying awfulness and wondrous splendor, despite our desperate attempts to avoid this realization.This essay is divided into two parts. The first part looks at how this problem of alienation and the need to acknowle this alienation motivates Césaire’s writing more generally, focusing on the ten years between 1945 (when his essay “Poetry and Knowledge” is published) and 1955 (when the second edition of his Discourse on Colonialism is published). In order to consider how alienation and acknowledgement work in this celebrated text, I consider related works and their contexts from the period from 1950-1956, including his famous letter of resignation from the French Communist Party. This sets the stage for the reading of Césaire’s Ferraments provided in the second section.  The second part examines how and why Césaire sought acknowledgement for Emmett Till’s brutal murder through his poetry, focusing specifically on his poem “…On the State of the Union” from his 1960 collection Ferraments.

scholarly journals Skabelsen af en ny slags syg person: Sexkøberen

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
Don Kulick
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Personality Type ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Leadership ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Gender Parity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Eu

Don Kulick: The Construction of a New Kind of Sick Personality Type: The Sex Client The article discusses the criminalizing and pathologizing of the sex client in Sweden. Drawing on inpirations from Michel Foucault and queer studies, it analyses discourses in Sweden from the mid-1900s into the 2000s. Basically, the processes of criminalizing and pathologizing are related to the installment of an official, good sexuality, the only morally comprehensible one. Of special importance in this development is the prioritizing by the State of govern¬mentalizing techniques that do not primarily work by way of prohibitions (although such are also employed). Furthermore, there is the radical feminist influence on Swedish ideologies on “gender parity“, demanding that men con¬¬form to standards imagined to be inherently feminine. Finally, there is the development of new forms of Swedish nationalism, stressing Sweden’s obligation of moral leadership to the rest of the world, in particular the EU.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS

2020 ◽  
Vol XXII (3) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Adamowicz
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Endogenous Development ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Area Development ◽  
The Eu

The objective of the study, on the basis of problem literature, is the presentation of theoretical concepts referring to rural development and practical support programmes of these areas available in Poland and the European Union (EU). In this context, rural areas are presented as the reference area for development policies, with particular consideration for the Cohesion Policy (CP), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), including the EU Rural Area Development Programme (RADP). Among the theoretical rural development concepts, particular attention was devoted to sustainable and balanced development forming the basis for shaping practical development programmes and identifying new theoretical approaches. The latter encompassed the smart rural areas concept, the resilience concept, local development programming, bottom-up endogenous development and the neo-endogenous concept of open development. It was concluded that the LEADER and LEADER+ neo-endogenous concept is an effective form of supporting rural area development, especially after the fifth extension of the EU with Central and Eastern European countries.

scholarly journals GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AS THE MAIN PREREQUISITE FOR NARROWING THE CORRUPTION SPACE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
Oksana Safonchyk ◽  
Artem Ripenko
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
The State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Government Administration ◽  
State Program ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Eu

Political corruption as a social phenomenon exists in virtually all countries of the world, including those that most researchers consider as “benchmarks” in terms of the development of democracy. At the same time, there is a steady tendency towards the growth of political corruption and the evolution of corruption practices in developed democratic countries. Problems of political corruption in the professional literature are given a lot of attention but the issues related to the peculiarities of the experience of fighting political corruption in the EU in the context of the introduction of appropriate practices in Ukraine remain insufficiently researched. In the context of reforming the modern Ukrainian society, the study of problems of preventing and counteracting corruption is extremely relevant for a number of reasons: firstly, corrupt practices in the government machinery are the main obstacle to the implementation of any reforms; secondly, the high level of corruption in society, as evidenced by the results of the World CPI Corruption Perception Index 2015, decreases public confidence in the government; thirdly, it is necessary to implement the anti-corruption recommendations of the Action Plan on Visa Liberalization from the European Union (EU); fourthly, the reduction of corruption would contribute to attracting international investment, and so on. The purpose of the article is to identify features of counteraction to corruption in the countries of the European Union and to analyse the formation of government administration as the main precondition for narrowing the corruption space. To achieve this purpose, the following goals were set: to determine the level of implementation of international anti-corruption standards in the government practice of Ukraine; to investigate the formation and development of anti-corruption institutions; to analyse the experience of anti-corruption institutions in the EU; to investigate the formation of informational transparency of government space; to analyse the ratings of Ukraine regarding data openness; to find out the features of E-Declaration models as an element of public control of anti-corruption institutions in the system of public administration. Reaffirming its European aspirations, during 2001–2018, Ukraine ratified several laws in relation to the formation of anti-corruption standards: a) general and on liability for corruption offenses and offenses related to corruption; b) documents on the activities of specialized agencies for fighting corruption; c) documents on ethical rules, anti-corruption restrictions and prohibitions for certain officials and on the prevention of political corruption; d) documents on the prevention of corruption in the economy and sports; e) documents on access to information. This allows asserting that in general the legislative framework for the prevention of corruption in Ukraine has already been established. Despite the adoption of many laws, out of 200 anti-corruption measures, which, according to the State Program for the implementation of the Anticorruption Strategy, had to be implemented by state bodies by the end of 2018, about 35% had not been implemented. Anticorruption strategy for 2019 and subsequent years and the State Program for its implementation do not exist. Many important anti-corruption laws, which would help to further improve the Ukrainian economy, finance, the system of social protection of the population, and so on, were not adopted. Many of the problems that prevent effective use of the data obtained still need to be resolved. It is also necessary to find solutions for defining the electronic declaration of anti-corruption crusaders.

scholarly journals Customs control organization: european experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 387-391
Author(s):  
Natalia Shcherbatiuk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
The State ◽  
Theoretical Substantiation ◽  
Control Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Control Procedures ◽  
The Eu

The article presents the result of theoretical substantiation of the importance of customs control of foreign economic activity and the development of practical recommendations on its improvement and efficiency improvement in Ukraine. It has been determined that in the EU countries for the identification and development of risk factors in the customs sphere, the basic role is played by electronic systems and services, which should improve the quality of the customs authorities in the EU, in particular, ensure the effectiveness of customs control and its preventive component. It is established that the modern imperative for the implementation of customs control is the development of a new customs IT infrastructure, without which its effectiveness in modern conditions is significantly reduced. The state of institutional support for the development of customs control in Ukraine is analyzed, the main problems and ways of increasing the effectiveness of customs control in the system of public administration of foreign economic activity are outlined. For the first time, a step-by-step adaptation model of the Customs Blueprints implementation of the Customs Blueprints has been formed on the basis of the systematization of foreign and domestic experience in the institutional support of customs control of the FEA subjects. baselines, mandatory steps and urgent measures to be implemented in customs control practice in Ukraine to form a favorable institutional environment in legal, organizational and information technology areas through the introduction of the practice of customs rules and procedures of the riskbased customs audit in conditions of complete digitalization of customs formalities It was established that the system of customs security of Ukraine should be determined taking into account the international experience of the leading countries of the world. It was stated that the basic imperative of the implementation of customs control in the world fiscal practice is the maximum simplification of customs control procedures. This is due to the desire of governments to accelerate international trade, which will have a positive impact on the socio-economic development of the state.

scholarly journals The state of the Hungarian ornamental horticulture industry, recommendations for development

2018 ◽  
pp. 353-355
Author(s):  
László Orlóci
Keyword(s):  
World Market ◽  
The State ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Ornamental Horticulture ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Genetic Bases

R&D and innovative technologies are required in the EU for being competitive on the world market. Education and professional co-ordination is vitally important, as well as maintenance and development of our genetic bases.

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