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From fringe to fringe: the shift from the clericalist League of Polish Families to the anticlericalist Palikot Movement 2001–2015
2017
The period between 2001 and 2015 brought two events in Poland that deserve to be called phenomena. In 2001 the rightist, clericalist League of Polish Families entered the Sejm. Ten years later, the leftist, anticlericalist Palikot Movement achieved spectacular success in the 2011 elections. These events give a picture of a radical shift in the Polish political scene: a rightist clericalist party disappeared from the right flank of the political scene, while a new, leftist-anticlericalist formation appeared. The article makes reference to a set of five explanations on both the causes and consequences (and permanence) of the observed changes. I argue that only a concurrence of a number of com…
Soviet-American Art Exchanges during the Thaw: from Bold Openings to Hasty Retreats
2013
[Introduction] East-West artistic connections during the Cold War were a complex range of phenomena including the circulation of works of art, travelling by art professionals, the exchange of practices and the adoption of art currents from the other side of the Iron Curtain. The Cold War has also been said to have influenced the arts and artistic processes in a number of ways. Yet, art has always shunned political borders, wavering between the guidance of individual and governmental patrons, and borderless expression. This chapter discusses an attempt at an extensive exchange of exhibitions between the Soviet Union and the United States around the late 1950s that involved New York’s Museum …
"Muddle instead of music" in 1936: cataclysm of musical administration
2010
Ārlietu ministriju pārveide Baltijas un Skandināvijas valstīs 2004.-2012.gadā
2015
Promocijas darbā ir analizēta ārlietu ministriju pārveide un izmaiņu raksturs Baltijas valstīs (Igaunijā, Latvijā un Lietuvā) un Skandināvijas valstīs (Dānijā, Norvēģijā un Zviedrijā). Izmantojot novatorisku pieeju diplomātijas studijās, darbā ir meklētas atbildes uz jautājumu, kā sešu viena reģiona valstu ārlietu ministrijas pielāgojas starptautiskās sistēmas transformācijai 21. gadsimtā. Empīriskā materiāla pamatā ir ārpolitikas pārskati, ziņojumi un gadagrāmatas, kā arī padziļinātas intervijas ar diplomātiem un ārpolitikas ekspertiem. Balstoties uz septiņiem funkcionālo pārmaiņu kritērijiem, darbā tiek secināts, ka Baltijas un Skandināvijas valstu ārlietu ministrijas ir pilnībā atteikušā…
Cilvēkdrošība kā nacionālā interese ārpolitikā: Japānas, Kanādas un Norvēģijas gadījumu analīze.
2019
Promocijas darba “Cilvēkdrošība kā nacionālā interese ārpolitikā: Japānas, Kanādas un Norvēģijas gadījumu analīze” mērķis ir caur konstruktīvisma perspektīvu izanalizēt un salīdzināt trīs valstu motīvus veidot uz cilvēkdrošību balstītu ārpolitiku un sniegt ārvalstu palīdzību katastrofu kontekstā periodā no 1995. līdz 2015. gadam. Darba teorētiskais modelis paredz, ka cilvēkdrošība kļūst par ārpolitikas prioritāti, ja atbilst valstu objektīvajām un subjektīvajām interesēm un starptautiskajām normām. Motīvu pētniecība ir veikta ar rāmējumu analīzi politikas dokumentos un intervijās. Tiek secināts, ka valstu motīvi palīdzēt citiem katru reizi mainās, un visos trīs gadījumos tie iekļāva: drošīb…
From the kinetic theory of active particles to the modeling of social behaviors and politics
2007
This paper deals with the modeling of complex social systems by methods of the mathematical kinetic theory for active particles. Specifically, a recent model by the last two authors is analyzed from the social sciences point of view. The model shows, despite its simplicity, some interesting features. In particular, this paper investigates the ability of the model to describe how a social politics and the disposable overall wealth may have a relevant influence towards the trend of the wealth distribution. The paper also outlines various research perspectives.
New Alliances in Post-Brexit Europe: Does the New Hanseatic League Revive Nordic Political Cooperation?
2020
As Brexit removes the Nordic countries’ most powerful ally from the EU, what does this imply for their approach to European affairs? The literature on small states within the EU suggests that they can counterbalance limited bargaining capacities by entering two types of alliances: strategic partnerships with bigger member states and institutionalised cooperation on a regional basis. Against this backdrop we ask whether, by significantly raising the costs of non-cooperation for Nordic governments, the Brexit referendum has triggered a revival of Nordic political cooperation. We scrutinise this conjecture by analysing Nordic strategies of coalition-building on EU financial and budgetary polic…
Academic domains as political battlegrounds: A global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology
2017
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Within and Beyond Postmodernism: Oppositional Remediating Strategies in Jeanette Winterson’s The Power Book
2016
Informed by interconnected theoretical approaches, the paper aims to illustrate the ways in which Jeanette Winterson’s The PowerBook (2000), while drawing on specific postmodern ideological elaborations and writing techniques – among which remediation, in the sense of multiple transcodifications, plays a major role –, simultaneously distances itself from the apolitical dilution of meanings which underlies postmodern conceptualizations and identity models. As far as sexual politics is concerned, the essay demonstrates that the sense of plurality and multiplicity in the novel suggests new creative ways of identity re-invention through conscious self-fashioning.
The logic of pressure groups and federalism
1985
Constructing a complete model of the relations between politicians, bureaucrats, interest groups, and voters is not an easy task. Consequently most economic models of government have to do away with some of these relations. One way to simplify matters is the so-called group theory of politics (or "pluralism”) which assumes that the influence of interest groups dominates policy-making. In political sciencel, where this line of thinking has been important for a long time, the theory is not very striking, since it isnot always clear that an interest group is anything more than a number of individuals, or firms, who share a common concern, Lg. an interest category. Thus, the theory can be made …