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"I live in a country in which the person you talk to gets confused most if you ask: IlHow do you see yourself in three or five years?" In cooperation with the BBC, I have been leading a school for journalists for many years. Approximately three times a year, we interview candidates in our Media Center in Sarajevo. They are journalists in local radio and N stations and want to learn something new. At times, I think that the main reason of their response is the English text of the school's diploma. Perhaps it gives them the illusion that they have made a bigger effort than determined work can offer in a country, whose passport is rather a reason for a gathering of customs officials than a travel document.[...]
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The last decade of the twentieth century proved to be a rough time for most parts of Central and Southeastern Europe. The Yugoslav Federal Republic got dismembered in a most explosive and painful manner, while Czechs and Slovaks made a peaceful divorce. The countries that were not immediately affected by these events nevertheless felt the reverberations and/or immersed themselves in their own domestic problems. Turkey, the southern-most and eastern-most country of Southeast Europe, seemed to be the one affected least by these storms coming from the European continent at that ti me. She aIso had her hands full with her own ethnicity problems. The disturbances in Southeast Europe were, of course, triggered by a series of events starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rapid changes of regimes in eastern European socialist countries, the collapse of the Soviet regime in the Soviet Union, culminating in the end of the Cold War. Unlike the other countries in the region, Turkey, together with Greece, did not have to undergo the traumas of transition from Soviet socialism to market capitalism; it was seriously affected, however, by the political implications of the end of the Cold War. Now, as the turmoil on the Balkan Peninsula is beginning to subside, we can see that this event, which has brought a lot of happiness all over the world, has injured Turkey in probably even a permanent way.
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Three main factors will determine Greece's profile in the year 2030: 1. The country's own domestic development; 2. The state of its geopolitical environment (the Balkans, Turkey, and the European Union); 3. The global and regional pursuits of the United States. [...]
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Words of Greetings of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer on the Occasion of Celebrating 50 Years of The Southeast Europe Association
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"They say that the Republic of Moldova would be a country without a future. Many political commentators believe in this supposition. The same situation applies to a majority of the population and to a large part of the youth in this country. The most conclusive demonstration took place during the election of the 23rd of February 2001 only two political parties were elected to the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova the Communist Party (left wing party, the adept in rehabilitation of the former Soviet Union) and the Popular Christian Democratic Party (right wing party, the adept in union with Romania). The population refused the political parties, which chose maintaining and consolidating the Republic of Moldova as a state, expressing a dangerous state of spirit. In this situation, I find myself in unequal conditions compared to other authors, who will easily make some prognosis related to their countries. It will be difficult for me to remain optimistic in this study, keeping in account that my country became one of the poorest countries in Europe and at the same time, the unique European country in which Communism was restored in a democratic way."[...]
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International migration and development are among the most often cited issues in contemporary scholarly and political discussions. Reduction of socioeconomic disparities through development of economically less developed countries or liberalization of workforce movement are positioned very high on the political agendas of particular countries, as well as on those of supranational and international organizations. Therefore, it is not surprising that relations between migration and development attract more and more attention not only from the scientific community but from other individuals and organizations as well. In a limited amount of space, this paper uncovers the impacts of international migration, above all of the phenomenaons of remittances and skilled migration on the development of both receiving and sending countries. The article discusses the challenge of whether international migration is a better development strategy than traditional development tools such as Official Development Assistance (ODA) and argues against some traditional migration myths. This article wants to contribute to the discussion in the Czech Republic on relations between international migration and development with an emphasis on developing countries. The article is structured as follows. The first part is a brief description of international migration theories with development aspects in mind. The second part deals with international migration in the contemporary global world, stressing quantification of migration flows with respect to the level of development. Finally, the third chapter summarizes the most important findings from specific domains of relations between international migration and development (particularly remittances and skilled migration).
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The essay deals with the development of theory in development economics as a subdiscipline of international economics, within the context of general economic theory. Although some authors believe that it started to develop during the 19th century (as some Latin American countries gained their independence at this time), most authors connect its origin with the decolonization process of the 1950s. The first part describes its rather “naive” beginnings, when it was believed that it is possible to discover a universal theory applicable to the whole “third world” – such as theories of vicious circles of poverty, the best ways and tools for breaking them, etc. The second phase of development economics, spanning approximately 1970–1990, was characterized by disillusionment and produced a lot of mostly analytical works dealing with partial problems. The third stage (1990 – present) has been characterized by a growing demand for the socalled new synthesis. As the authors believe, such a goal would be very difficult to achieve, but in essence, it is achievable by means of joint efforts based on the Millennium Development Goals, changes of international economic and political relations systems and changes in a wide range of global issues.
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George B. N. Ayittey: Africa Unchained – The Blueprint for Africa’s Future. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 483 stran, ISBN 1-4039-6359-2. (Vladimír Kváča) Mário Caetano João – Petr Jelínek – Aleš Knitl (eds.): Lusofonní Afrika 1975–2005. África lusófona 1975–2005. 1. vyd. Praha: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, 2006, 207 stran, ISBN 80-86506-49-5. (Michael Romancov) Bjørn Olav Utvik: The Pious Road to any, 2006, XI + 287 stran, ISBN 1-85065-760-2 Development. Islamist Economics in Egypt. 1st ed. London: Hurst & Comp. (Jaroslav Bureš) Nancy Fraser: Rozvíjení radikální imaginace. Globální přerozdělování, uznání a reprezentace. Editor Marek Hrubec. 1. vyd. Praha: Filosofia, 2007, 182 stran, ISBN 978-80-7007-251-6. (Ondřej Lánský)
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The article presents the concept of human development and its measurement using the Human Development Index (HDI). The first three parts explain the evolution of the human development concept and the methodology of the HDI and provide some analysis of HDI results. The focus of the article is to critically discuss the HDI as a measure of human development. Based on critical perspectives of selected authors, the article analyses the weak points (and by implication the strong ones as well) of the HDI, and it also discusses proposed changes in the HDI methodology. The combination of relative comprehensiveness of the scope of the indicator and relative simplicity of its methodology made the HDI more popular than its creators may have expected. Despite all the critical comments on the HDI, it may be used as a summary measure of development. However, it should be noted that it may serve only as a rough measure.
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The main goal of the article is to analyse the basic problems regarding the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The negotiations so far have been controversial, and discussions about them have been inconclusive. In the first section of the article, the negotiations are set within the context of global politics and are especially examined in the context of new regionalism/inter-regionalism and international trade relations to clarify the motives behind the EPAs. Then the negotiation parties are introduced and a brief overview of the ACP economies follows, since they all have a considerable impact on the EPA discussions. Next, an analysis of possible positive and negative impacts of the EPAs on the development of ACP countries follows.
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The paper is dedicated to the Luck Egalitarianism, its genesis, the main principles, as well as to its external and internal criticism. The main problem of this theory represents the quest for the principle of compensation for the consequences of bad brute luck, in some cases of bad option luck. I claim that the right way is not a return to the solidaristic community, but emphasizing the principle of equal citizenship. Therefore, it is necessary to compensate not only material damage but also moral one. One of the possible ways is socially recognized and widely supported fair access to public services and offices, as well as granting of the public honours to those who are morally harmed.
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In this study the author deals with a perception of corruption in the Czech Republic. According to many authors, he acknowledges distinctions between two levels of discourses – one related to political elites, the other one to society. This study is focused on elite discourse, specifically on discourse within electoral programs of the political parties – the author presents results of both qualitative and quantitative content analysis of electoral programs of four Czech political parties (ODS, KDU-ČSL, ČSSD, KSČM) in this text. The main goal is to show how the topic of corruption has changed during the post-communist development, whether is the corruption seen as related to the process of privatization of an ex-state property, and whether (and how) perception of corruption has changed in response to concrete events (like particular corruption cases or so-called opposition agreement 1998-2002). The development of the perception of corruption is therefore put into the context of general political development in the Czech Republic.
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Presented study focuses on lobbying as a political activity and the emergence of lobbying regulation. The main topic is the analysis of the lobbying regulations adopted in Hungary and Poland. On the basis of pre-selected standards (definition of the lobbyist and lobbying, system of registration, rights and obligations of lobbying actors, mechanism of control and the sanctions), both models are compared and their functional force and efficiency is evaluated as well. To maintain the highest possible objectivity of the article is this one value-neutral and scientific anchoring based on empirical – analytical approach. It also corresponds to the used methodology, which includes the description, analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization. Final comparison showed that there is a accordance among existing regulation of lobbying in these two countries, but it is very small. Poland is closest to a comprehensive treatment, which has the highest qualitative shift from zero regulation following the law about the lobbying. It is rather vague on the issue of lobbying treated extensively, and many measures completely omitted. This law is rather vague on the issue of lobbying and treated it extensively, and many measures are completely omitted. On the other hand the definition of lobbying subjects is so specific that a significant portion of the essence is not covered. However, according to the evaluation methods of CPI is this law labeled as weak, it provides a workable basis for future novelizations and streamlining. Hungary is at similar path as Poland, but government acceded to the nest regressive step, once they have adopted the law on lobbying, which has been in its present form the CPO methodology assessed as moderately regulated system derogated by the partial Law on public participation in the preparation of legislation and government regulations by which to the comprehensive regulation of lobbying basically responded.
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This study represents an attempt of author to characterize the relatively new geopolitical concept Neo-Ottomanism and its influence to the geopolitical position of Western Balkan region and Serbia. Since the beginning of 20th century the geopolitical position of Balkans has been impacted by three geopolitical concepts – Atlantism, Euroasianism and Continentalism. The fourth one, relatively new concept which influence is growing up in the Balkan region, is the geopolitical concept called Neo-Ottomanism. Turkey has close historical, cultural and religious relations with countries of Western Balkan region. The end of the Cold War, the disintegration of world bipolar political system, the collapse of the communist countries in Western Balkan region, the economic growth of Turkey, the relatively unsuccessful integration of Turkey into EU and new level of Turkey's cooperation with Muslims in Balkan states have contributed to the strengthening of Turkey geo-political and geo-economic influence in this region.
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Fenomén moci a sociálne nerovnosti - pod týmto názvom sa 13. a 14. novembra 2014 na pôde Fakulty sociálnych a ekonomických vied Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave uskutočnil prvý ročník konferencie pre doktorandov, doktorandky a mladú vedeckú obec. Konferencia sa konala pod záštitou Ústavu európskych štúdií a medzinárodných vzťahov Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave a spojila mladých vedeckých pracovníkov a pracovníčky z rôznych vedných odborov. Fakulta mala možnosť rok predtým zorganizovať nultý ročník jednodňovej konferencie na tému moci v sociálnych vzťahoch, a tentokrát sa rozhodla stretnutie uskutočniť počas dvoch dní a rozdeliť program do šiestich panelových diskusií.
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