The monograph describes the stages of how bilateral relations were taking shape between the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Belarus. A general overview of the history of the two countries is offered, considering centuries-old ties between the nations that have gone through different stages in relations. Political and economic relations, the Eastern Policy of the Republic...
The author of the book raises the problem of fast automation of production and the crisis of capitalism. He analyzes the space of possibilities and wonders about the vision of the future, presenting two utopias and two antiutopias.
In the 21st century, information is golden. The question is whether in his book entitled Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information Michael Bazzell teaches us how to get it? This review answers this question by providing an objective overview on the publication. The introduction contains certain biographical information on the...
The text focuses on one of the elements belonging to the surveillance society – surveillance with the use of electronic tools. The authors attempt to answer the following questions. What types of negative phenomena are produced and intensified by electronic surveillance technologies? How deep is the state of the „vulnerability” of modern societies, what are the possibilities of...
The article has a deeper reflection on the issue of metadata, that is, data which are defined or describe other data. The theoretical layer extracted three types of metadata: descriptive, structural, and administrative. Descriptive metadata is used to find and identify key information that allows the location of an object. Structured metadata describes the internal structure of...
The text consists of two parts. The first analyzed the internet search techniques – in a general heuristic sense and detailed i.e. specific techniques belonging to the family of query languages – so called operators (logical operators, localization operators, operators for communication channels in social media, chronometric operators, search operators in the content of the www...
The article deals with the quality of data obtained in the quantitative research process. The authors decided to raise the subject, because in the Polish political science – in the opposition to sociology – it’s not well described. The text was made mainly on the basis of a literature review devoted to particular parts of the article and is its synthesis. During the work it was...
Article deals with legal possibilities of obtaining information on the Internet. It indicates methods of obtaining information legally (such as open source intelligence) and methods recognized in Polish law as unlawful (such as activities aimed at disrupting the operation of an IT system). The article also discusses the issues of phishing, the use of false identity in the...
Though in the present age the Internet is an important resource for gathering information, there are also plenty of significant and helpful traditional sources. The best data collection strategy in information broker activity is one that employs techniques from both. The first part of the text is focused on the methodology of obtaining information. The author points out the place...
The chapter presents the most important element of propaganda used as a tool to create attitudes in society. The environmental determinants of information were identified and the scope of information security responsibilities was presented, taking into account such areas as information security, information warfare, disinformation. The main focus was on identifying the components...
The dynamic development of technology causes the need to organize existing and conceptualize new methods of gathering information. Current typology contained in the doctrinal documents of NATO and the United States Army partially corresponds to the possibilities offered by new technologies. Noteworthy are also the proposals for new disciplines, which in recent years appeared in...
An article presents selected theoretical and empirical aspects of functioning information in social and economical dimensions of contemporary democratic political systems. Quantitative and qualitative levels of analysis were highlighted. New developmental forms of the information society were the object of consideration. Some skills related to the use of information and...
Wytwarzanie i proliferacja informacji w Internecie zyskała kluczowe znaczenie we współczesnej polityce lokalnej, narodowej, regionalnej i globalnej. Jednocześnie obserwuje się intensyfikację negatywnych zjawisk w tym obszarze – pojęcia takie jak fake news, astroturfing, sockpuppet, troll stały się trwale obecne we współczesnym globalnym krajobrazie politycznym, dyskurs zaś w tej...
The book of Bartłomiej H. Toszek titled: The devolution reform in the programs of the main political parties in Wales 1997–2011 is the result of the author’s long-term research of the Welsh devolution and it The book of Bartłomiej H. Toszek titled: The devolution reform in the programs of the main political parties in Wales 1997–2011 is the result of the author’s long-term...
The author focuses on determining the status of ethnic Russians and their role in the state. He attempts to answer the question to what extent the ‘Russia for Russians’ slogan was present in the doctrine of Russian nationalism, from the 11th century to the present day. The monograph is a significant step in the recognition of national and state-building processes in Russia. It...
This article is devoted to the constitutional and legal analysis of the conditions of restriction of the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to exercise public control. The paper investigates the right of citizens to exercise public control, which is a relative, public-political right to protect the rights of the people to democracy and participation in public...
Primitivism is a marginal current of political thought. It is based on the concept of the return to the era of primitive past. However, primitivists view this concept as an inspiration rather than a closed vision of the future. The founders and followers of primitivism address problems which are ignored by scholars and politicians, and show that there are other, alternative ways...
The aim of the article is twofold: on the one hand, it is an attempt to reconstruct one of the most interesting elements of Isaiah Berlin’s political philosophy and social ethics in the form of the theory of values’ pluralism, meaning – generally speaking – a concept with which values can and often remain among themselves in a permanent conflict. The main goal of the article is...
The purpose of the paper is to present in a concise manner the key theoretical issues related to mathematical modelling in political science, alongside selected examples of using mathematical modelling in research practice. In the process, the function of scientific models in the development of scientific theories is discussed, indicating the main types of scientific models. Then...
The dynamics taking place within the political system means that changes take place in it. The Polish political system is not an exception in this respect – in the period 1989–2019, it is possible to indicate numerous examples of modifications of political institutions. However, relative-y rarely we have to deal with changes that are so thorough that they contribute to a...
The purpose of the article is to compare the theoretical basis of representation with the real relations between the representative and the collectivity, as practiced in the functioning of the representative government. In the first part, the author focuses on explaining the modern understanding of representative democracy against the background of the classic theory of...
The institution of a nationwide referendum has taken root in the Polish democratic system, but it is not often used. There may be several reasons for this condition. These include the existing representative system, which makes it possible to settle matters without recourse to the will of citizens who have chosen their representatives. Another reason is the party system – parties...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia neglected relations with the republics in Central Asia for a few. In the second half of the nineties, the Kremlin attempted to maintain political and economic domination in the region. The challenge for Russia was the emergence of Chinese and American competition in Central Asia. Moscow failed to stop China’s economic expansion...
The article deals with political disputes related to the contemporary interpretations of Islam in the context of constructing the very idea of Pakistan, and then of continuously re-defining its ideological foundations. Two contrasting concepts are analyzed, viz., the political philosophy of a modern, democratic Islamic State as elaborated by Muhammad Allama Iqbal, officially...
The aim of the article is to analyze the process of a cabinet coalition formation in a double non-standard situation: a) in the Westminster-model state (New Zealand), in which until 1996 single-party cabinets dominated and coalition bargaining was arranged very rarely; b) in a context of negotiations conducted simultaneously by a pivotal party with a high potential for political...