{"title":"Restricting freedom of information online in Ukraine within the Russian-Ukrainian hybrid war","authors":"Pavlo Burdiak","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2021.2.pp109-130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2021.2.pp109-130","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of the article is to examine the Law of Ukraine “On Sanctions” and provide an international law assessment of its application as an instrument for blocking (pro)Russian websites in Ukraine in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian hybrid war. To accomplish the stated goal, two objectives are outlined. Firstly, to investigate the implementation of the Law “On Sanctions” for restricting access to (pro)Russian websites in the Ukrainian segment of the Internet. Secondly, to analyze the Law “On Sanctions” through the prism of three internationally accepted UN- and CoE-based criteria of permissible freedom of information limitations – legality, legitimacy, and necessity. The article found that since 2017, the Law “On Sanctions” has been employed for wholesale blocking of (pro)Russian websites originating from Russia, Crimea, ORDLO, and Ukraine controlled territory. These websites have been blocked either temporarily or permanently by im- posing sanctions on the associated legal and natural persons. Furthermore, it was determined that the wholesale blocking of (pro)Russian websites by applying the Law “On Sanctions” arguably violates the international standards, because only one of the three required criteria of permissible freedom of information limitations has been met. The blocking fulfills the legitimacy criterion, but fails to satisfy the criteria of legality and necessity.","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"381 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131607112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainable development of humanity: joint responsibility for the future","authors":"L. Ryzhak","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2018.pp100-111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2018.pp100-111","url":null,"abstract":"The paper focuses on the new place of humans in the modern world: their technological power and the ensuing global environmental crisis. It recognizes sustainable development to be a strategy for humanizing the civilizational progress of humanity in the 21st century. It is revealed that the idea of sustainable development opens the prospect of constructing new models of a globalized world where self-organization of society will be based on real humanism. Enactment of models of balanced development is based on the ethics of responsibility for the life of both present and future generations. Evidence is provided that joint responsibility is in line with the strategy of sustainable development, demanding that technological progress should be environmentally friendly and socially equitable for con- temporary and future generations.","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116510331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation of the Czech armed forces under the auspices of NATO","authors":"Vira Burdiak, T. Fedorchuk","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2021.2.pp21-34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2021.2.pp21-34","url":null,"abstract":"The authors argue that the Czech Republic’s integration into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has become an important factor in shaping the security system of Central and Eastern Europe and is a part of the vital interests of NATO candidate states and Washington’s policy on the European continent. The asymmetry of potentials and the lack of formation of the Czech security sector, as well as the other CEE states, allowed Washington to fill the niche of the so-called “security guarantor” and create an image of a long-term strategic partnership, strong ties between NATO and the United States who were the world leaders at the time. Guarantees of the collective security system of all members of the Alliance, according to Art. 5 of the Washington Treaty, were “attractive” to a post-communist state that distrusted its Western partners (in connection with the events of 1938 and 1968) and did not have sufficient resources and defense capabilities to build security on its own. We believe that in terms of the security policy of the Czech Republic, the partnership and cooperation with the United States in the transition phase has created the conditions and tools for the integration of the Czech Republic into the European and transatlantic security system.","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129643721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Myth as an instrument of political manipulation","authors":"Oksana Szurko, Svitlana Bula","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2019.pp119-132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2019.pp119-132","url":null,"abstract":"In the article political myth as one of the means of influence on political conscience and electorate mobilization has been observed. The main types of political myths, which are used by different political leaders and organizations, have been analyzed. The main principles of the theory of political myth by G. Sorel and E. Kassirer have been defined. The most popular myths used in modern election technologies have been examined.","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129947448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Before the State Police. Formation genesis","authors":"Zbigniew Bartosiak","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2019.2.pp237-255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2019.2.pp237-255","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary Polish Police celebrates its jubilee under the slogan of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the State Police. This took place on July 24, 1919, when the Legislative Sejm adopted the State Police Act. Before this happened, the evolution of Polish organizations and public order services continued, which resulted in the establishment of the first, after Poland regained independence, a centralized police service. In this work, the author points to the then realities of practical activities of organizations and services working for public security, their mutual relations, official pragmatics against the background of legal and political changes at the turn of 1918/1919. The content based on contemporary publications, but also on numerous sources from the 1920s, such as legal acts, departmental press, journalism records and the police practice of that time, constitute the precursor character of this study. This year Poland’s Police force celebrates the centenary of the founding of the Polish National Police. On July 25, 1919, National Police was called into existence by an Act the Polish Diet. Before the National Police was formed, the law and order organizations kept evolving to result in the formation of a centrally controlled police force. This author discusses the functioning of the organizations and units which maintained public safety under the conditions that prevailed at the time. The paper shows how these different services interacted with each other during the period of 1918/1919 in the context of the political and legal transformations the country was undergoing. The novel character of this presentation lies in its use of contemporary sources, in conjunction with archival documents from the second decade of the 20th century, including laws passed, trade publications, diaries, to study developments in police work.","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131177530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basic parameters, manifestations and options of conceptualization and practice of populism in the world at the end of the 20th century.","authors":"Sławomira Białobłocka","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2023.pp224-238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2023.pp224-238","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the supporting parameters, manifestations and options of conceptualization and practice of populism in the world, in particular in its various parts and in general, in the second half and at the end of the 20th century. The author states that populism began to diversify, but at the same time to be theorized and to acquire doctrinal outlines since the middle of the 20th century. The manifestation of this was that the conceptualization and empiricism of populism began to acquire signs of tendentious and recurring processes. Given these, the essence of populism in the dynamics of the second half of the 20th century is analyzed on the example of Europe as well as North and South America and so on. On this basis, it is argued that the understanding of populism has not become consolidated, unified and unilateral one in the second half – in the late 20th century. Firstly, populism can be a characteristic of both democratic and non-democratic (hybrid and autocratic ones) political regimes that determines its different orientation and vector. Secondly, populism can be perceived as both a negative and a positive socio-political phenomenon, although classically it is typically supposed to be a threat to democracy. Thirdly, populism depends in its interpretation not only on the part of the world, but also on the country, and therefore it should always be considered contextually. Fourthly, populism can be caused by very different reasons, but socio-economic fac- tors are less frequently its causes than political factors. However, populism in the second half of the 20th century generally began to be doctrinalized and typologized based on a combination of several basic parameters and criteria that are traditionally reduced to confrontation and mobilization of the struggle between the “people” and the “oligarchy”/”elite”.","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"363 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134071906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The features of technocracy in the “Chinese model” of governance","authors":"Magdalena Białobłocka","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2017.2.pp263-272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2017.2.pp263-272","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of technocratic management in the “Chinese model” of governance. It is argued that China, as an authoritarian political regime, is traditionally incorporated into the technocratic style of governance and hence into the mixed (technocratic, corporate and political) style of inter-institutional relations, which largely deter- mines the growth of the efficiency of capitalist industrial production and management. At the same time, it was found that in China there is a significant technocratic-oriented modernization of the authoritarian political regime, although the authoritarianism itself is not a modernization one. It has been recorded that there is implemented the version of “capitalist authoritarianism” in China today, but it “rationalizes tyranny” under the guise of local traditions and culture. The author determined that friendship and particularism are the decisive factors in the tech-nocraticization of the authoritarian political regime and governance in China. Therefore, the technocratic nature of power in China is partially denied.","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134299666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The models of coalitional process in the formation of governmental cabinets: theoretical cut and review of literature","authors":"Sławomira Białobłocka","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2019.pp218-234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2019.pp218-234","url":null,"abstract":"The article offers a review of literature on the theorization and systematization of models of coalitional process in the formation of governmental cabinets. It was demonstrated that all models of coalitional process can be divided into institutional and non-institutional, but most of them are characterized by game theories and theories of rational choice. At the same time, it was found that the models of coalitional process should be divided into formal and empirical as well as pragmatic and ideological. Nevertheless, it was stated that the isolated models of coalitional process in the formation of governmental cabinets are not exhaustive. Since the real coalitional process should be perceived as a gradation based on the ranking of various influence, which can be determined nationally and regionally.","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132405174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Features and types of governmental cabinets as descriptors of semi-presidential system of government in European countries","authors":"V. Lytvyn","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2020.2.pp37-52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2020.2.pp37-52","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the essence and attributes of semi-presidential system of government, mainly in European countries, in particular on the basis of outlining and operationalising the features and types of governmental cabinets as a descriptor of semi-presidentialism. On this basis, the author found a correlation between the influence of the institutions of the head of state and parliament on the formation of different types of governmental cabinets in countries with semi-presidential system of government.It is clear that party governmental cabinets (primarily majority, not minority ones and coalition rather than single-party ones), which are the predominant characteristic of the countries whose political regimes are democratic ones, are dominant in European semi-presidential countries. Instead, non-party governmental cabinets are rare and are the characteristic of semi-presidential countries with mainly undemocratic (autocraticor hybrid) political regimes (including presidential or president-oriented governmental cabinets), but less often with democratic political regimes (particularly as technocratic governmental cabinets).","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134044875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political, social and economic dimensions of government stability: a theoretical and methodological perspective","authors":"Zbigniew Białobłocki","doi":"10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2019.2.pp6-17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59861/ansgk.2353-8392.2019.2.pp6-17","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to theoretical and methodological analyzing political, social and economic dimensions of government stability. It is stated that being determined politically and institutionally the stability of governments is theorized and constructed from the concept of the paradigm of quality and effective governance in society, and therefore it affects various spheres of public life. Generally, it has been proven that government stability is a category that depends on both political and non-political factors. The researcher found that government stability is a complex problem, which is defined as a multidimensional and multifactorial interrelation of the activities of governmental cabinets and economic, social, legal, cultural, political and other factors of public life. Moreover, the influence of such factors can be traced either in the form of institutional levers, or in the form of contextual features of social, economic and political system of a particular state.","PeriodicalId":270857,"journal":{"name":"Studium Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134161967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}