Annales Scientia Politica

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Authors: Ján Feber

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.

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Authors: Vladimír Dančišin

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.

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Authors: Gabriel Székely

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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Authors: Gabriel Székely

Report from Informal Meeting with Liam Wasley, Chargé d'affairs of the US Embassy in Slovakia

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Authors: Martin Lačný

Ethical Leadership in Slovak Business Environment - Review of a Scientific Monograph of A. Remišová, A. Lašáková, J. Rudy et al.

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Authors: Ivan Stryapko

The article is devoted to the analysis of tolerance and xenophobia of the Ukrainians of the Transcarpathian region towards some ethnic groups. Based on the opinion polls conducted according to Bogardus method of measuring of social distance, the author analyzed the attitude to the Russian speaking Ukrainians, the Hungarians, the Romanians, the Russians, the Roma, the Slovaks, the Jews, the Americans and the Hindus. The survey results indicate that the Ukrainians of the Transcarpathian region mostly demonstrate their tolerance towards the Slovaks, the Americans and the Russian -speaking Ukrainians. The social distance to the Hungarians, the Romanians, the Jews and the Hindus can be characterised as alienation. There is an openly xenophobic attitude towards the Russians and the Roma people.

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Authors: Jiang Quanbao - Liu Yixiao - Li Shuzhuo - Stuart Basten

China’s recent history of family planning restrictions is well known. An increasing amount of attention has been paid to the role of abortion in both national and local policy implementation as well as individual – level decision-making. In this paper, we explore the recent history of abortion within the Chinese family planning policies within a broad bioethics framework. In particular, we explore themes of rational persuasion, coercion and manipulation at the various levels of implementation.