{"title":"The Importance of Development Aid in the Policy of the Kingdom of Spain in the Years 1995–2020","authors":"Justyna Salamon","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68014174","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}
Olagoke Oluwafemi Awotayo, O. Akinrinde, O. Oyebade
{"title":"Proliferation of illicit arms and control mechanisms in Nigeria: A critical socioeconomic analysis","authors":"Olagoke Oluwafemi Awotayo, O. Akinrinde, O. Oyebade","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-01","url":null,"abstract":"The study addresses the question of illicit weapons proliferation and many diverse control measures undertaken to counteract it in Nigeria. It further explores the reasons why Nigeria has become an appealing target for illicit weapons in the West African sub-region. Given the ease of in-flows and out-flows of illicit arms within the borders of the Nigerian State, this study contends that Nigeria’s firearms law is outdated and insufficient, especially as seen from the perspective of the Protocol to the arms trade agreement that is in force, and even in the light of the dynamics of security issues in the 21 st century. The study demon-strates that the growing proliferation of illicit weapons in Nigeria has had economic, hu manitarian and socio-political consequences. Therefore, it concludes that all the regional containment measures, from ECOWAS to weapons trading agreements, have not decreased the proliferation of illicit arms in Nigeria and that the Nigeria’s Firearms Act is outdated and unsuitable for the security needs","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68011919","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 role of selected financial organizations in the reconstruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Dayton Peace Agreement","authors":"Marko Aćić, Miloš Grujić","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-02","url":null,"abstract":"The paper lists the major projects of international financial organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) after signing the Dayton Peace Agreement to explore the role of international financial organizations in post-Dayton BiH. It discusses the specific contribution and the role of these organizations in functioning of BiH, including financial assistance, credit means, various funds and projects, which have been supposed to lead to the stable functioning of BiH after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. The paper explains the role and attentiveness of the Monetary Board in BiH with a focus on its impact on implementation of the international projects. The research question is: “From which sources did the largest funds in BiH come in the period from 1996 to 2020 and how were they related to GDP?”. The paper is based on publicly available data from international financial institutions and the Ministry of Civil Affairs of BiH. The results show that about 71.45 billion dollars entered BiH from international financial institutions through donations, grants, loans, and other various types of assistance. But the funded projects did not have the same priorities every year and in every area. In addition, international funds were used to finance numerous projects aimed at economic recovery and economic development. In the last few years, there","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68012042","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 Politics of Gender Discrimination in Nigerian Fourth Republic: A Gender Analysis","authors":"Abdulrasheed Abdulyakeen","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013184","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":"Herders–Farmers Conflict and the Nigerian Economy 2015–2020","authors":"Chukwuemeka Chibuzo Ohajionu","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013309","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}
M. O. Lawal, Nkechi Latifat Aliu, Young Kenneth Irhue
{"title":"A Qualitative Study of Public Health and Policy Implications of Street Begging in Nigeria","authors":"M. O. Lawal, Nkechi Latifat Aliu, Young Kenneth Irhue","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013316","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 International Community’s Response to the Ghouta Chemical Attack of 2013","authors":"P. Pietrzak","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.54-06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.54-06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013328","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":"Kashmir conflict: Yearning for an elusive peace in the contemporary South Asian Region","authors":"O. N. Thalpawila","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-03","url":null,"abstract":"The conflict in Jammu & Kashmir has become a critical issue not only for India-Pakistan relations but for the whole of South Asia. After careful analysis, the origin of the conflict has been identified by scholars as a failure in demarcating a practical border between India and Pakistan by the British colonial rulers. The consequence was that after gaining independence, both countries went to war three times over Kashmir. In addition, numerous breakouts of hostilities were reported along the line of control between India and Pakistan in the Kashmir region. The United Nations Organization made several attempts to arrive at a permanent solution for the Kashmir issue. In addition, several bilateral meetings were held by India and Pakistan to work out a solution to bring about long-lasting peace in Kashmir. However, all the initiatives failed, and hostilities are still going on. The situation has further deteriorated after several incidents of cross-border terrorism that had its roots in Kashmir politics. Today the Kashmir issue has become a key threat to South Asian security after the changes that have taken place in global politics as well as regional politics. The aim of this paper is to study the conflict in Kashmir to find a way to build peace in the new global context. This paper is based entirely on secondary data and uses the descriptive analysis method. Indian government policy on Jammu & Kashmir has been influenced by past events in Kashmir, while Pakistan is looking for alternative strategies to build peace in Kashmir. The impact of this conflict on the South Asian region will mostly depend on the Indian Government’s determination to keep Kashmir under its control while it is continual-ly challenged by the Pakistani regime, which also has claims on this territory.","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68011774","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":"Janusz Józef Węc, Germany’s Position on the System Reform of the European Union in 2002–2016 (Stanowisko Niemiec w sprawie reformy systemowej Unii Europejskiej w latach 2002–2016), Peter Lang, Berlin 2018, ss. 325","authors":"M. Szulc","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013018","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":"Assessment of China’s foreign aid for Cameroon in 2009-2020","authors":"Polycap Mudoh","doi":"10.18276/ap.2022.53-08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18276/ap.2022.53-08","url":null,"abstract":"The visit of Jia Quinglin from China to Cameroon in 1971 and the formal President‘s Ahmadou Ahidjo of Cameroon return visit to China in 1973 started paving the way for Sino--Cameroon relations. Huge progress has been made towards advancing the cooperation of these two nations. This cooperation has had significant impact on both economies. China’s relations with Cameroon have been more or less like an economic livewire to Cameroon, although it cannot be ruled out that it has also some drawbacks. Chinese presence in Cameroon has been growing and is concentrated in the private sector. Areas of Chinese presence include construction, agriculture, and medium size businesses. Cameroon has not only witnessed enormous increase of Chinese investment and presence, but also of Chinese foreign aid. China’s foreign aid to Cameroon in the past years has been very much consistent and enormous. The main question here is what impact has this aid on Cameroon and Cameroonians? Cameroon is one of China’s major partners in Africa and also a beneficiary of China’s benevolent activities in Africa. China’s foreign assistance has been gearing towards the development of the local economy. This paper, therefore, seeks to explore the contribution and impact of China’s foreign aid on Cameroon in the period of 2009-2020.","PeriodicalId":34563,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica Polonica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68013374","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}