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US-Visegrad Realities in Biden’s World of Democracies
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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The ‘liberal world order’ can be considered as an historic exception in the history of ‘realist anarchy’ of international relations. This exception is the result of many factors and it has been significantly influenced by the power of the United States. Thus, the agenda of the world order can...
Poland’s Governmental Response to the European Green Deal: Discursive Strategies prior to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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Although Poland’s energy mix is becoming ‘greener’ each year, the country’s energy production is still dominated by coal. This affects several important spheres: financial, socioeconomic and political. Therefore, the aim of the article is to explain Poland’s response to adaptational pressure...
The Emerging New World System and the European Challenge
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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In the early 2020s we live in the transition period between two world systems, the Old World Order (OWO) and the New World Order (NWO), in a deep ‘polycrisis’.Therefore, the term transformation has recently appeared in official EU documents as well as in political science literature. The transition...
Not in my House: EU-citizenship among East-Central European Citizens: Comparative Analyses
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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The successes of right‑wing populist parties in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as a repeated distancing from the European Union, raise the question of whether there is such a thing as European citizenship at all. Citizenship is not understood as formal nationality, but as a sense of belonging....
‘The Iron Curtain did not dissolve very well’: Reflections on EU Citizenship from CEE peripheralised perspectives
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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Peripheralisation is determined in socio‑demographic, economic, political and identitarian factors. It is, many say, by definition, characterised by a willingness to migrate, in particular among the younger generations. European citizenship comes with the right to migrate – to relocate, to...
Contextual Sources of Euroscepticism in Eastern Central and Western Europe: The Role of Peripheral Regions
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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This paper examines how regional contextual factors influence Eurosceptic voting in Eastern Central and Western Europe. It employs a theoretical framework of multidimensional regional periphery and relative deprivation to explore how economic, spatial and demographic factors can generate collective...
The Regional Economic Foundations of European Identity
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Volume 20, Issue 1
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The question of whether there is increasing social integration among EU citizens in Europe as a spill‑over effect of the ongoing process of system integration, as expected by utilitarian perspectives on integration, has been discussed in many contributions so far. In particular, the question...