Annales Scientia Politica

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Authors: Vladislav Dudinský

Textbook on the subject and principal directions of border studies(book review)

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Authors: Jaroslav Vencálek

A hundred years that have passed since the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 has offered a number of considerations and reflections on new developmental visions of human communities not only in a Czech and Slovak, but also in European and worldwide context. The paper outlines the need to change the causal perception of reality in favour of strengthening the studies of contextual relations, the need to change the simple evidence of phenomena to study their influence on social cohesion and, last but not least, the need to transform hierarchical structures into a more progressive fractal structure.

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Authors: Andrea Zjarová

The sovereignty is the power of the state which is independent from any other internal or external powers. The sovereignty is the attribute of the power of the state or the right of the state, whose condition is the existence of the state independent of any other state. The purpose of this contribution is to provide the impact of European Union member states sovereignty. The concept of sovereignty is changing because of the integration of the states in supranational European Union. The sovereignty of all member states of European Union is limited upon the international treaties which creates the field of this supranational organization. The Fiscal union, the Eurozone, limiting of the designation of top officials, limiting the development of foreign relations or limiting the justice are some examples of limitation of sovereignty in European Union. Last part of this contribution deals with specific examples of limitation of sovereignty which are actual today. The last chapter deals with the limitation of sovereignty in Kosovo, which is the typical example of the relation between sovereignty and self-determination like two basic norms of international law which often appear in contradiction to each other, Ukraine, whose state sovereignty is questioned, the Basque territory whose habitants consider to be a nation, whose main purpose is to create their own state with their own sovereignty and Gibraltar, the British overseas territory.

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Authors: Helena Melkusová

In this paper, we examine the permeability of the border between the Slovak Republic and Ukraine. On the basis of data from the Office of the Border and Alien Police of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic we analyse the development of legal migration of persons and transport means through the border crossings of Vyšné Nemecké – Uzhhorod and Ubľa – Malyj Bereznyj, also the border crossing for pedestrians and cyclists Veľké Slemence – Mali Slemenci during years 2013 ‒ 2017. We found that the border crossing of Vyšné Nemecké is highly dimensioned, the number of people passing the border is constantly rising, but there is a different situation in the means of transport, where we record, first, decrease and later on gradual increase of the numbers. The number of border crossings also rises at the border crossing of Ubľa, though there has been a decrease in transport vehicles after 2014, followed by an increase later on. A significant change in the increase of the number of persons legally crossing the Slovak Republic and Ukraine border occurred in 2017 in the context of the change of Ukraine's visa regime with the EU countries.

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Authors: Katarína Komenská - Michaela Petrufová Joppová - Ondrej Marchevský

The World Day of Philosophy in Slovakia (report)

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Authors: Magdaléna Steinhauser Wesserlová

The paper is focused on the issue of connecting the minimum freedom and human nature in the ideas of Isaiah Berlin. Its content is conceived as an attempt to express the position of minimal freedom in the Berlin concept and as analysis of the typology of human nature using the concept of R. A. Kocis. Since Berlin does not define the essence of human nature in his work, the aim of this study is to search for out a potential explanation of what can be understood under the concept of human nature and what role it fulfils in the need to secure an inviolable part of human freedom. For Berlin, the minimum freedom is a key aspect of promoting the idea of securing an area that no one has the right to interfere with. This is because the loss of this component would destroy human personality.

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Authors: Mária Česalová

In the age of economic liberalisation and integration of states, the role and definition of border is changing. What used to be a barrier in the past, is now weakening and becoming more permeable. While permeable borders mean heightened ease of interaction between states, they can also have some negative effects such as terrorism and illegal immigration. The aim of this article is to analyse the use of geographical information system (GIS) for creating spatial models of border permeability, which may help to solve the issues mentioned above.

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Authors: Juraj Tej – Anna Burdová – Matúš Vagaš

The article deals with the issue of local government cooperation policy, which brings many benefits, such as higher efficiency of services provided, economies of scale, better use of resources, but mainly better meeting the local public needs of the entities operating in the locality, i.e., in particular residents and businesses. At present, it is possible to implement in the policy of cooperation besides the traditional cooperation based on voluntary and institutionalized cooperation(e.g. associations and microregions) also the principles of shared economy, which allows the use of resources that are not sufficiently exploited for the sake of preference of efficiency at the expense of ownership.

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Authors: Anna Polačková - Ondrej Marchevský

The research which results are presented by this paper focused on legal migration conditions. Also focused on control of the legal migration at the Slovak-Ukrainian Schengen border. The first part of the paper aimed at description of legal migration management at this part of the Schengen border. This part of the paper focused also on migration legislative framework. The second, analytical part reveals the main resulted from interviews conducted with 31 officers of the Slovak border guards from Bureau of Border and Alien Police. Its aim is to examine and reflect the perspectives of border control procedures, labour conditions, functionality of the managing structures, the communication between subordinates and theirs commanding officers.