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  • Democratic Backsliding in Poland

    Why Has Poland Gone to the Dark Side

    According to various independent research institutions Poland is now seen as the fastest destabilizing democracy. After 1989, Poland was often presented in the international public discourse as an example of the successful political and economic transition away from Communism. However, since 2015, Poland has been associated with terminologies not previously linked with this country: “nationalism”, ... Read more

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  • Capitalist Imperialism in Contemporary Theoretical Frameworks

    New Theories

    Series Book 13 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book analyzes the controversy surrounding imperialism associated with capitalist development. The last dozen years passed under the shadow of two momentous events: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted in the framework of the broader «war on terror», and the economic crisis. They occurred against the backdrop of global economic integration, but also against the contradictions in its ... Read more

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    Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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  • The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian Ambassador

    The Hawks of Peace. Notes of Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalities and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that without those it would be impossible to understand the past and envisage the future of his country. Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO until recently, in his ... Read more

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  • The American President in Film and Television

    Myth, Politics and Representation

    by Gregory Frame ...
    As evidenced by the election of celebrity and reality television star Donald Trump, popular culture has played a vital role in the conceptualisation of political leadership. This revised edition of The American President in Film and Television explores the complex relationship between the construction of fictional presidents on screen and the political cultures from which they emerged. How have ... Read more

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  • Innovation, Complexity and Policy

    Contributions from 30 years of innovation policy research in Austria

    Edited by Matthias Weber ...
    This book brings together a set of contributions that show the breadth and depth of the scientific work of Josef Fröhlich and his influence on Austrian research, technology and innovation (RTI) policy. It is edited in honour of the occasion of his retirement as Head of Innovation Systems Department at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. The contributors provide an overview of important ... Read more

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  • Competition, Coordination, Social Order

    Responsible Business, Civil Society, and Government in an Open Society

    Series Book 12 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    The author analyses competition as one of four coordinating mechanisms helping agents mutually to orientate their actions, avoid chaos, and produce social order. Competition is a key dimension of developed societies. It helps to structure and is also conducive to social change. Competing agents constrain one another, making it hard for anyone to change their position. They discover new routines ... Read more

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  • Social capital, migration, ethnic diversity and economic performance

    Multidisciplinary evidence from South-East Europe

    Series Book 20 - Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
    This interdisciplinary book brings an empirical evidence that social capital is an important building block in the reintegration processes, migration challenges and economic dynamism of the SEE communities. Such a conclusion opposes the common belief that (re)establishing social relations in a post-ethnic conflict environment is difficult, or sometimes even impossible. These are indeed societies ... Read more

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  • Political Leadership in Morphogenetic Perspective

    Series Book 10 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises mutual influences between personal and structural domain. In morphogenesis, the subjective matrix of leadership keeps the division into ... Read more

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  • Social Networks and the Jewish Migration between Poland and Palestine, 1924–1928

    Series Book 8 - Studies in Jewish History and Memory
    This book analyses the role of social networks in the process of migration. Based on stories of Polish Jews who migrated between Poland and Palestine in the 1920s, the author presents all stages of the journey and shows how networks of friends and families spread in different countries contributed to the migration experience. Presenting these stories through correspondence, she shows how migrants ... Read more

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  • Accountability and democracy in Poland and Spain

    by Anna Sroka ...
    Series Book 8 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book is a response to the need for scientific research on one of the components of quality of democracy, id est accountability. The author analyses thoroughly in cross-section the accountability mechanisms in Poland and Spain. This approach required that each of the issues under investigation be reviewed synthetically, and only the aspects meaningful for the notion of accountability have been ... Read more

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    "The Olympic Games" is innovative in its twofold approach: while helping to boost English language skills, it also instills in the student the peaceful values of the Olympic and Paralympic movement. Designed for pre-intermediate and intermediate language students, it can be used within the regular classroom setting or as an additional Grammar reference book. Each lesson gradually takes the learner ... Read more

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