Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... attitudes prevalent in society [7].
Today’s science offers a broader interpretation of strategic culture, one that is dynamic and generally non-essentialist [8, р. 4—11]. This new approach emphasises the inhomogeneous and fluid nature of international actors’ identities. Although, in analytical terms, it transpires that one blurred concept becomes instrumental in revealing the content of some other, often just as blurred, phenomena, the focus of research shifts, and strategic culture itself turns ...
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... multidisciplinary approach to monitoring and safeguarding the security of the nation.
The concept of geopolitical space refers to a set of ideas that describe the power dynamics of international politics. At its core, it involves a competition among actors, primarily states, to compete and gain control (in various forms) over specific territories at the global, regional, and local scales, as well as within various sectors of international relations and security, including the political, military,...
Some problems regarding the actor of penal legal relations
This article analyses the problems pertaining to the actor of penal legal relations. Through the example of the enforcement of a fine imposed on a juvenile offender, the author shows the interconnection between protective and penal legal relations and emphasises their similarity regarding the actor.
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Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... such as values, beliefs, and expectations, that shape the direction of daily activities and allow us to comprehend, evaluate, and organize daily activities in time and space [11, p. 1—2]. It is essential to shift the research focus from analysing actors to a deeper understanding of their interests and choice preferences. The legitimization of actions is associated with justifying one’s own choices and behaviour in the eyes of other individuals and the public [13, p. 126]. Irhin argues that the ...
Actor-based network theory in the context of ideology and political ontology
The aim of this research is to consider the possibility of applying actornetwork theory (STS) to political processes. The authors analyze B. Latour’s criticism of the traditional political science and sociological approaches to the understanding of different spheres through the prism of ideology and interest. The initial assumptions and main arguments of the actor-network theory are compared with the post-Marxist theory of hegemony by E. Laclau and C. Mouffe. The conclusion draws attention to the...
Key actors of German ‘soft power’ in the Baltics
This article focuses on Germany’s key ‘soft power’ actors promoting the country’s interests in the Baltics. The authors analyse the policies of ‘soft power’ aimed to create a positive image of Germany in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The article examines the activity of German political foundations,...
The rhetoric and logic of the representations of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–1878 in Russian public discourse
... public opinion suggest that, although sanctioned by the authorities, the language of mobilisation was not effectively controlled by them. In this article, I analyse the structure of the public language of 1876— 1877, which was shaped by different actors who used it to express their attitudes to the current events. I identify a series of principal oppositions employed by most actors. I analyse these oppositions from the perspective of orientalism and demonstrate that an orientalist vision of the ...
The concept of the European Union’s normative power
.... However, such approach does not completely conform to the objectives of studies into the foreign policy of the European Union – an example of unique integration of states. One of the modern approaches aimed to describe the nature of the EU as an actor in world politics is the concept of the EU’s ‘normative power’ arguing that the ‘power’ of the EU lies in the ability to change the international community’s idea of the ‘norm’. The concept of the EU’s ‘normative power’ is ...
Twin cities: a new form of cross-border cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region?
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Motors for regional development: impact on regional political organizations on the university cooperation in the Baltic Sea region
... Baltic Sea Region. The article analyzes the political impact of the organizations, as perceived by the universities in the region and political decision-makers on national and regional levels. Based on the success of the OECD in becoming an influential actor in educational policies, this article discusses different strategies for the regional political organizations to enhance their influence.
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The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... decade are more accurately described as a structural crisis rather than a restructuring. The main outcomes were the downsizing and, in some cases, complete closure of Soviet-era industries. They were replaced by the involvement of the surviving economic actors in international speculative trade in the interest of major global players. Nevertheless, local businesses, including small and medium-sized enterprises, accumulated unique experiences and competencies in dealing with counterparties in the global ...
Knowledge and innovation dynamics of the Northwest Russia under geopolitical changes
... Karelia) and the periphery (Komi Republic, Vologda, Novgorod and Pskov regions).
The results show that, firstly, the regions of Northwest Russia are connected within the framework of the national system of scientific knowledge redistribution. Regional actors perform R&D on external requests and act as purchasers of projects on topics of interest. The regions have more R&D performed than commissioned, which reflects the high level of their research and technological development. However, in some cases,...
Spatial differentiation of rural territories in the Kaliningrad region: implications for socio-economic policies
... tourism, production of new crops (asparagus, bog bilberry, mushrooms, etc.), breeding of new animals (quails, ostriches, rabbits, etc.), cow and goat cheese manufacturing, etc. Moreover, rural schools and libraries have recently become visible cultural actors.
The Kaliningrad region has been paying particular attention to the economic and social development of rural areas, particularly in the eastern municipalities. Villages have received both federal and regional financial aid.<5>
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Modern trends in paradiplomacy: a case of Russian-Finnish regional cooperation
... regionalisation processes. In the past years, the main paradiplomacy trends in cooperation between Russia and the Baltic Sea region states, particularly Finland, were as follows: (1) project activity gathering momentum; (2) diversification of paradiplomatic actors; (3) equal and symmetrical partnership between Russia and the European states.
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During the past few decades, EU-Russian regional cooperation was a channel of interaction between communities on both sides and demonstrated its resilience ...
The Mobius strip of the pragmasemantics of sense: from culture through subjectivity to nothingness and back
The author endeavors to systematically present sense formation through the lens of the pragmasemantic approach. It enables the demonstration of how the primary factors of sense formation, socio-cultural practices and personal agency interact. Their relationship is non-linear: subjectivity results from the assimilation of socio-cultural experiences and the accompanying narrative communication. Self-consciousness of the Self arises from the socialization of the individual through reflexive self-description...
The Visegrad Group and the Baltic Assembly: coalitions within the EU as seen through Russian foreign policy
... opportunity for the formation of a more effective management mechanism compared with those created at the global and regional levels since decision-making at the global level is fraught with difficulty in seeking consensus among the most influential actors in international relations and decision-making at the regional level is usually limited by the boundaries of a particular region [4]. The transregional approach provides a good opportunity to understand the two strategic objectives of the countries ...
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... community or among decision-makers. With very few exceptions, there is almost no research done on societal security in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) [2], [3], [4].
This study aims to examine how the societal security concept is perceived by both governmental actors and different Russian schools of international relations (IR). The paper also discusses whether this concept has become a part of the Russian discourse on the BSR. Moreover, Russia’s role in shaping the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) ...
Non-translation as palimpsest in hermetic poetry
Ezra Pound’s “Pisan Cantos” is a multi-layered palimpsest rewritten and written over previous editions several times, in which the non-translation of quotes, sayings and headlines becomes an aesthetically significant device. Younger branches of complex poetry after 1945, on the one hand, overcome Pound’s total project, on the other, inherit him through this ‘gap’. Within the framework of this article, the author explores how hermetic poetry (language writing, metarealism and generation...
Petroleum as a space for non-translation: Hikmet, Negarestani, Parshchikov
In 1927, Nâzım Hikmet composed several poems based on his impressions of his visit to Azerbaijani capital, the city of Baku. They will be included in the collection Song of the Sun-drinkers (1928) and will soon be translated into Russian. The Baku cycle was one of the first attempts at a symbolic representation of petroleum in Russian poetry, in many ways foreshadowing the later poetics of the subject, which will develop on Russian material only in the 2000s. One can look at these poems by Hikmet...
Multimodal text as a means of political identification: an analysis of the Russian blogosphere
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The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... governs the interactions between people. In contrast, the space of flows, a novel spatial paradigm that emerged with the rise of information technology, allows social practices to be systematically structured, making exchanges and interactions between actors more predictable and measurable.
The coronavirus pandemic undermines the traditional idea about the virtues and deficiencies of the two types of spaces. Today’s global economy gives an advantage to the space of flows as they are more receptive ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... corporations of the world are not able to conduct comprehensive scientific research on their own, which creates certain conditions for ever greater globalization of production systems and, as a result, leads to more intensive participation of the main actors in the global division of labour [25].
The degree of scientific and technical progress of countries is an indicator of the development of industrial relations, and other related governmental and social institutions [2]. Thus, increased investment ...
Estonian ‘Balticness’ as a social construct: meanings and contextual specifics
... securitised.
This research and its findings cannot be considered an exhaustive description of the Estonian vision of Baltic identity. Although the political elite actively participates in constructing the country’s regional identity, it is not the only actor in the process. Further work needs to be done to analyse national media discourse, educational practices, documented political doctrines and public opinion.<30> Investigating the discourse of the Latvian and Lithuanian political elites would ...
Dismantling monuments as the core of the post-2014 ‘decommunisation’ in Ukraine and Poland
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Typographic landscape in urban space: a sociolinguistic approach
... and able to generate particular socially loaded meanings. This research is in line with contemporary social semiotics, interactional linguistics, and discourse studies and is based on typographic meaning as a key notion providing the basis for social actors’ ideological ascriptions. Typography and typographic meaning formation are discussed within modern Russian urban space. It is argued that urban area enables addressing agency and interaction aspects of social communication. The city space provides ...
Politics of urban identity in the cultural heritage discourse of St. Petersburg: media analysi
The article is devoted to the urban identity construction within the existing, inhomogeneous, conflicting discourse of the cultural heritage of St. Petersburg. The discursive practices of the actors of 7 discourses within the main discourse of the cultural heritage of St. Petersburg are reconstructed from the media and field studies; 9 dispositive variables of each discourse are considered.
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Between the Eurasian and European subsystems: migration and migration policy in the CIS and Baltic Countries in the 1990s—2020s
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Toil, Passion, Serendipity, Money, and Marketing: a Fresh Look at Agents of Translation
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On the implementation of social innovation in rural area Kaliningrad oblas
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Swedish Islamism as a social and political aspect in the formation of an ethno-confessional parallel society
A new actor in the European geopolitical space — an ethno-religious “parallel society”- is transforming the social and political fabric of Sweden. An institutionalised Muslim parallel society is emerging in vulnerable areas, such as marginalised immigrant ...
Intellectualization of operational and technological control of regional electric power by cognitive hybrid intelligent systems. Part 3
... and also describes the conceptual scheme of the language and presents the results of the development of its mapping into the scheme "System of operational and technological control". The last has cognitive hybrid intelligent system as an actor.
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Literary scandal in cubo-futurism poetics and the communicative behaviour of recipients
The article deals with a ‘literary scandal’ as a mode and a script of communication within cubo-futurists poetic circles as far as the communication between poets and their addressees during a public performance is concerned. The latter is an essential component of the “literary everyday routine” of the poetic circles analysed. Not only does scandal betray an intention of insulting the recipient but also it is due to the scandal that the avant-garde author could find the addressee, become...
Implementation of the INTERREG program in the Kaliningrad region and neighboring countries: a brief overview
... projects granted from «Russia — Lithuania» Interreg Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) Programme 2014—2020 and «Poland — Russia» Interreg CBC Programme 2014—2020 have been the research subjects. The authors have identified the most active actors of cross-border cooperation from the Kaliningrad region and the border regions of Lithuania and Poland and have compared the outcomes with the results of the previous Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) Programmes. The research has recognized the ...
Innovative development of rural settlements of the Leningrad region
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Verbal aggression in modern poetry: conventional and unconventional functioning of discourse markers
... explicitly and implicitly. The study reveals specific strategies of expressing verbal aggression in poetic communication, which can include the self-referential criticism (through verbal aggression directed at the language of the poetic utterance, the actor of utterance, the poetic utterance as such and also the perceptual mechanism). The author studies the formation of aggressive message in poetic discourse and its subjectification.
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Ethno-confessional immigrant ghettos as a national security problem in Denmark’s social and political discourse
... combination of political, social, and economic factors. The ensuing social disunity and violation of the country’s territorial integrity take the problem to a regional and international level. Through analysing public speeches of Danish social and political actors, this article reconstructs key stages in the development of parallel societies in Denmark. Another focus is official government strategies to prevent isolated immigrant areas from turning into ghettoes: the Government’s Strategy against Ghettoisation ...
Clusters in the system of economic and innovation development of agriculture in the Rostov Region and the Krasnodar Region
... development. The article examines a specialized agro-industrial complex that is developing at the interregional level on the coast of the Azov and Black Seas — in the Krasnodar Territory and the Rostov Region. The aim of the work is to analyze the actors, prerequisites and trajectory of the cluster-genesis process, factors of its acceleration and inhibition. The study focuses on the comparative efficiency of cluster forms for the development of the agro-industrial complex in the two regions in ...
A ‘Secret alliance’ or ‘Freedom from any alliances’? NATO accession debate in Sweden and Finland, 1991—2016
... unlikely; even though after the Crimean events, the number of NATO supporters in the two countries increased, they remained a minority. The authors conclude that both countries are involved in a “creeping” integration with NATO after they have become actors of the EU defence strategy. There is a minimum probability of Sweden and Finland’s becoming full members of the Alliance. However, the traditional policy of neutrality of both countries is often compromised, particularly towards Russia.
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The danish parliament as an actor of Denmark’s foreign policy towards the EU and Russia: a comparative analysis, 2005—2019
The growing number of participants in foreign policy decision-making calls for a study of the forces affecting the behaviour of states in the international arena. In contemporary states, parliaments are increasingly challenging the exclusive prerogatives of executive power in foreign and defence policy. Many experts stress that the powers of the Danish Parliament in these fields are among the most considerable in the world. The question is, however, whether these powers are exercised in the same...
Russia-European Union and Russian-Chinese borderlands: economic and demographic dimension
... state border, the largest number of neighbouring countries, and centuries of experience in the peaceful existence and cooperation between different cultures. Most importantly, the country straddles two continents. Located between two principal economic actors (the European Union and China), Russia binds the huge Eurasian continent into a single whole. It is very important to study Russian-European and Russian-Chinese border regions to make full use of their strategic advantages for the economic development ...
Scenarios of increasing the economic efficiency of the Kaliningrad regional transport system
... region. In this study, we examine major ways of increasing the economic efficiency of the regional transport system from the value added perspective. We posit that the structure of cargo handled and the redistribution of value added in favour of regional actors have the dominant influence on economic efficiency. Using our own simulation model and the earlier developed system of transport tariffs and value added calculation for the Kaliningrad region, we produce scenarios and consider changes in value ...
Legal regime for church property in Russia and the Baltic states
... property in the Baltic States and in Russia after the demise of the USSR,. We stress the significance of this problem for the newly established relations between the state and the religious organisations, for the conclusion of agreements between these actors, and for the development of the ideas of interdenominational peace and intergovernmental relations. In this study, we aim at identifying the similarities and differences between the legal regulation of the state/denomination relations regarding ...
Contacts with Diasporas and Diaspora Organisations as a Key to a Successful Migrant Integration Policy in the EU
... Since the early 2010s, the involvement of various diaspora organisations in the implementation of the EU migrant integration policy has significantly increased. An analysis of completed projects shows that diasporas have a potential of becoming a key actor in the EU integration policy. We suggest expanding the list of the objectives of the national integration policy of the EU countries. This may be achieved by boosting efforts to reduce the gap in the socio-economic development of the host countries ...
The Kaliningrad Region: Challenges of the Exclave Position and Ways to Offset Them
... ‘cooperation laboratory.’ The analysis takes into account collaborations with the neighbouring states. In striving to identify the preferable regional development conception, the authors reveal low susceptibility of local cross-border cooperation actors to the belligerent rhetoric of national authorities on either side of the border. The study of the state of affairs in tourism, a promising area of regional specialization, demonstrates a dual effect of the exclave position, which can be considered ...
The dynamics of the world market of gold in the context of the present pulse geopolitical processes. Part 1. Introduction to the problem
... There is another group of market participants acting strictly in the interests of the world leading players. This group does not significantly affect the fluctuation of the price of gold. The article explores the differences and similarities between actors of the gold market and the main players on the political arena. The behaviour of professional participants in the gold market is conditioned by repeated and abrupt changes in the geopolitical space.
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On trends in the development of cross-border cooperation in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation
... cross-border cooperation programmes. I analyse all the projects approved within three cross-border cooperation projects over the past ten years. I focus on the projects that were successfully completed by the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University — a key actor in cooperation. I examine collaborations between municipalities on either side of the border when preparing and running projects under cross-border cooperation programmes. I classify the municipalities of the Kaliningrad region by their involvement ...
Behavioral geoeconomics: a problem statement
... systemic-behavioural approach to economic processes and phenomena. In analysing existing approaches to the state and the socio-economic evolution, I emphasise the need to develop a special approach – a behavioural geoeconomics. It perceives states as single-order actors in the external and internal segments of the economic space. I propose to treat states as economic agents of a special type, which have resources, fulfil a target function, and interact with organisations and households. I conclude that a behavioural ...