Complexity of development of relations which originate on the European continent makes the need for a comprehensive approach to the organization and administration of the territory. The existing preference of loyal managers with their economic and operational focus to assessing reality comes into conflict with the need to analyze the complementary relations conditioning the potential of the area. The need for highly knowledgeable personalities with moral credit is particularly evident in the creation of fractal relationships between functionally and semantically established local, regional and global structures.
The moral aspects of velvet revolution. The article is focused on the issue of morality in the political process, reveals the fiction of the policy of nonviolence on the example of velvet revolution. Advocating morality, the author draws attention to the danger of its absolutisation. The author defines the idea of a good society, which should become a higher criterion of moral good. The sense of velvet revolution is discussed within this criterium.
The paper deals with the social democracy reform in terms of the "Third Way" concept of British sociologist Anthony Giddens. It briefly describes the evolution of social democracy subjects considering their establishment, period of prosperity and dominance, until the crisis and efforts undertaken for their restoration. It therefore tends to analyse the main pillars and attributes of the "Third Way" concept based on the roots and the history of its creation. The paper does not aspire to provide definite judgement on this concept, but focuses more on the theoretical background and
practical implementations transformed into real policies executed by selected political parties.
The study provides a summary of the most crucial conceptualisations regarding border studies. The aim is to introduce main concepts and categories employed by scholars in the field of border studies. Conceptualization of border studies point out that the issue of borders offer full range of possibilities for research.
In recent years, political science as a discipline was described very negatively in the views of political elites, media and society. Despite the fact that the their position in modern democratic societies went hand in hand with the word trends of political sciences in
common, we are able to observed differences within the interpretation, the methodology, or in the context of scientific papers and publications. The main aim of the article is to analyse selected political journals in Slovakia in the context of their establishment in the international databases, in context of their thematic target and in the diversity in relation to the expertise of authors.
This summary study presents main sources, key objectives, theoretical and methodological framework, short analysis of four fundamental options of EU impact on border conflicts and the main recommendations and conclusions of the international research project named “The European Union and Border Conflicts: The Impact of Integration and Association (EUBorderConf)“. This project was primarily focused on research of EU impact and role in particular political dimensions and problems connected to border conflict issues. The internation research team under the supervision of project coordinators from the University of Birmingham was dealing with the question of role which a process of EU integration and association can play in a specific border
conflict case. The project research team has elaborated a model of four various pathways by which the EU can have a direct or undirect impact on a concrete conflict case including a model of four conflict stages. This model is also largely based on process of conditionality and socialization. According to project authors the EU can have a positive or negative impact on a conflict according to suitability of chosen pathway. A model of conflict stages can serve for determination of negative
or positive impact of EU.
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