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.