The Swedish institute’s scholarship policy as a soft power instrument
This paper examines how soft power, nation branding and academic cooperation came together in the scholarship policy pursued by the Swedish Institute (SI) from 1995 to 2023. An investigation of the organisation’s materials, scholarship statistics and feedback interviews with SI ...
The concept of the European Union’s normative power
... 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 the focus of the article. The author describes the historical background ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
The importance of studying the reputation of authorities is connected, on the one hand, with the formation of a consolidated system of political power and, on the other hand, with the highly social orientation of the category of the ‘reputation of authorities’, reflecting the value-based attitude of citizens towards them. The article presents the results of research aimed at the analysis of ...
Expansionism in Poland’s strategic culture: historical retrospective and variations
... expansionist types of strategic culture were identified. Firstly, as a medium-sized state that has faced military defeats, the Polish state has hardly embraced ideas bearing on the ‘besieged fortress’ concept. Secondly, the very culture of limited power politics has assumed some unique characteristics in the country: greater readiness to take risks and fascination with power actions. This state of affairs is largely a result of the contours of the regional project having been drawn for the neighbouring ...
Electric energy cooperation in the Baltic Sea region and the role of Russia in it
This article examines cooperation in the electric energy sector in the Baltic region. The author explores the existing undersea HVDC power exchange projects. It is emphasised that cooperation in the electric energy sector is concentrated largely in the EU member states despite earlier plans to establish the Baltic energy ring, which would also include Russia and Belarus. The author ...
The prospects of nuclear power development in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea region as a factor of the formation of international relations system in the region
... world is determined by a combination of globalization and regionalization. In addition, it has an economic dimension. At the same time, the Baltic Sea region demonstrates large-scale politicisation of economic cooperation. The development of nuclear power in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea is indicative of the effectiveness of political and economic cooperation in the region. The author believes that Russia and the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have the economic and technological ...
Formal languages and automata VII: Formal tree series (Part II)
This is the eighth paper of a series of papers that will give a survey on several topics on formal languages and automata by using semirings, formal power series, matrices and xed point theory. The seventh paper of this series deals with tree (series) automata and systems of equations over tree . The main topics of the paper are the following. 1. Pushdown tree automata, whose behaviors are tree series ...
Russian soft power in the Baltic States through the lens of research: traditions, competition, confrontation
In this article, we aim to analyse the research discourse in the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) as regards Russian soft power, which is considered as hard power, and to compare the theses that dominate this discourse with the actual interactions between Russia and the three states in media, education, and culture. Each Baltic country has built a system of political and ...
Major infrastructure projects and the foreign policy of the Baltic states in 2010—2014
... aimed at a qualitative breakthrough in the socio-economic development of the countries under investigation. The scheduled multi-billion investments into energy sector are of political rather than economic nature. The projects to develop alternative power grids and high-speed railways can result in large-scale economic downturns diminishing the prospects of balanced social development. The author addresses the classical concepts of the theory of regional economy and new economic geography and their ...
Nuclear power in the Baltic Sea region: the history of emergence and the political and economic features of its development
This article focuses on the development of peaceful nuclear power. The author draws attention to the fact that nuclear power is a rather young branch of national economy. However, over recent decades, it has already seen rises and falls, and a number of states have had tragic experiences of nuclear emergencies....
Geopolitical Security of Russia: Remarks on the Problem Statement
... those with geopolitical implications, it is imperative that we adopt a comprehensive and 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 ...
Reputation and status in Denmark’s strategic culture
... complement the explanations of security community formation, alliance strategies and the dynamics behind relations within different types of alliances.
Introduction. Expert discussion on status and reputation in Denmark’s strategic culture
As a small power incapable of ensuring national security unaided, Denmark has historically been preoccupied with relations with key allies and the country’s reputation amongst them. In this respect, Denmark seems to prove the thesis about the deep concern of small ...
Evaluating the impact of integration processes on the ethnopolitical competition of languages in the Baltic Region
In the literature, the impact of integration processes on language learning and usage is traditionally evaluated either through the prism of sociolinguistics or soft power. This article proposes a new conceptual approach based on measuring various aspects of competition between languages by the language integration and monopolization indices, on the one hand, and the polylingualism coefficient, on the other. The approach ...
Formal Languages and Automata VI:-algebraic systems and transducers
This is the sixth paper of a series of papers that will give a survey on several topics on formal languages and automata by using semirings, formal power series, matrices andxed point theory. The sixth paper of this series deals with the basic results in the theory of !-algebraic systems over quemirings generalizing the classical context-free grammars generating languages overnite and innite words....
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 ...
The transformation of the Baltic countries’ political elites: general and specific features
This research focuses on the features and transformations of power groups and their role in the political life of the societies of the Baltic countries. This article aims to analyse structural and functional changes in the composition of the Baltic political elites after these countries gained independence in the ...
‘The Radical Black Colour’. On the Semantics of the Black Colour in Anarchist Discourse
The subject of this paper is the semantics of the colour black in anarchism. The author analyses the sociocultural and ontological aspects of the colour black as a symbol of anarchist criticism of power and the state. The anarchist black colour is counterposed to the white colour — a symbol of power in many cultures. The author shows that the idea of destruction, which the black colour of anarchy manifests, is correlated with the anthropological ...
Method of analysis of electromagnetic safety of radio electronic means by external handicaps
The approach to the analysis of electromagnetic safety of radio electronic means based on is frequency the limited models of the characteristic of spectral density of power of a source of handicaps and characteristic frequency selectivity receptor of handicaps is offered. For a complete rating of electromagnetic safety the integrated criterion including power criterion and criterion of blocking is offered. The power ...
Formal languages and automata VII: Formal tree series (Part I)
This is the seventh paper of a series of papers that will give a survey on several topics on formal languages and automata by using semirings, formal power series, matrices and xed point theory. The seventh paper of this series deals with tree (series) automata and systems of equations over tree. The main topics of the paper are the following. 1. Tree automata (resp. nite, polynomial tree automata),...
The existential strategies of the power over things: labour, acquisitiveness, adventure
Using the concept of «power over things», this article describes human experience in the ownership,management and disposal of things. The diversity of this experience manifests itself in the existential strategies of power over things distinguished by the author — labour,...
The Accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO: Geopolitical implications for Russia’s position in the Baltic Sea region
... who trace the evolution of military-political trends in the Baltic Sea region (including the question of how Helsinki and Stockholm decided to break with non-aligned politics), the ability of these two Nordic countries to contribute to the cumulative power of NATO, and the current confrontation between the West and Russia, and who try to forecast the ways Moscow may act in these circumstances.
How Helsinki and Stockholm came to NATO membership. Discussions in the political community of both Nordic ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... bi-structural asymmetry.
Introduction and problem setting
The manifestations and consequences of today’s massive geopolitical and geopolitical shifts are all-encompassing and multifaceted. These shifts include the drift of economic activity and power from the Euro-Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific region [1], the nationalisation and regionalisation of politics and the economy [2] and, accordingly, the rise of ‘new globalisation’ and the formation of a multipolar world [3]. The change is also ...
To the question of creating a stationary plasma engine of increased power
The new concept of powerful electric thrusters for spacecraft are aimed at creation of power plants for transportation of satellites with a large mass support manned space programs, space transportation and missions to study outer space. As the main engine for such systems,...
Military and political cooperation between Germany and Lithuania in the late 2010s to early 2020s
... dependence on Lithuania, driven by the increased desire of the former state to maintain the latter as a reliable junior partner.
Introduction
Since the beginning of the 21st century, Germany has consistently pursued the goal of becoming a global power. However, by the early 2020s, this objective had not been achieved. During the decade spanning from 2014 to 2023, Germany underwent radical shifts in its foreign policy priorities, especially concerning its military engagement. Germany scaled back ...
The Role of the Kantian “Power of Judgment” in the “Nonmodern” Study of Conscious Experience
... Kant’s transcendentalist theory allows us to present first-person and third-person perspectives as two epistemic registers, subordinated to the position of a historically specific conscious subject. I treat the first-person perspective as a reflective power of judgment, and the third-person perspective as a determinative power of judgment; doing so, I establish the connection between the qualitative interpretation of phenomenal experience and the aesthetic principle of the reflective power of judgment....
Societal security in the Baltic Sea Region: the Russian perspective
... theoretical approaches. As far as the Russian formal and informal discourses on the BSR societal security is concerned, the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD) by Reiner Keller is used [5]. SKAD interprets any discourse as a practice of power/knowledge. It, therefore, claims to be more than text or language-in-use analysis: it considers the knowledge side and the power effects of discourses, the infrastructures of discourse production as well as the institutional effects and external ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... quantitative criteria. As was mentioned above, such a system is present if two main parties jointly control at least 80 % of the parliamentary seats. In case of Poland, of major importance is the distribution of seats in the Sejm, which is invested with the powers to legislate and form the cabinet. Since 2007, PO, PiS and the electoral blocs led by these parties have won from 79 to 82 % of the Sejm seats in four elections in a row (Table 1). Usually, their results lie at the lower values of the criterion....
Wege und Irrwege der Europäischen Rationalität. Das Problem der Evidenz
The problem of rationality today means the problem of the inner unreasonableness of reasonableness in the sense of its inner limit. Even the humanistic revolution of the Renaissance gradually led to the replacement of the power of omnipotent faith by faith in the omnipotence of power. It is this general orientation towards power and the cult of power, this new belief in power, that revealed itself more and more sharply in the course of European history and eventually led ...
Investigation of operating modes of a mobile solar power plant with non-stationary load
The object of the research is a power supply system based on a solar power plant with a non-stationary load on the example of an automatic trading unit (vending machine Coffemar G-546). The aim of the work is an experimental study of the influence of solar radiation power dynamics ...
On crisis trends in the legitimacy of the political regimes of the Baltic States
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The concept and features of discretionary powers of judges
This article addresses the problem of discretionary powers of judges and considers the correlation between the notions of judicial discretions and discretionary powers. Based on an analysis of scientific literature, the author identifies the features of discretion powers of judges, as well as the possibilities ...
Search on a regime of processing of leaky wave antenna
An expression for the radiated power through the slit of the constructed system leaky wave antenna is obtained. The equation of balance of power in the waveguide is evolved. The loss of the wave power from the waveguide through the slit is taken into account. To calculate the damping ...
On the strategy for power sector development in the Kaliningrad region
The balanced power sector development in the Kaliningrad region requires an accurate estimation of the parameters of the main generation complex, the formation of a backup generation complex, and the efficient management of power sector.
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The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
... year to 13.9 %, compared to 1.3 % in 1989, was a mere symptom of the crisis. Both sectors were in deep recession: oil production suffered from the increasingly complicated process of selling oil to the Mažeikiai refinery in Lithuania, whilst the power industry struggled to obtain electricity from the neighbouring state. Economic contraction continued until 1998. The standards of living in the region were markedly below the national average.
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France’s strategy in the Baltic region: military and political aspects
... researchers focus not only on France’s foreign policy as such, but also on its specific regional aspects or relations with particular countries. Thus, Fedorov identifies new trends in the Russian-French dialogue that emerged with Macron’s coming to power [16] while the author of this article, together with Alekseenkova, shows the problems and prospects for the Paris— Rome axis [17]. The close relationship between the Fifth Republic and Germany [18], [19], the French leadership’s attempts to ...
The Problem of Being: Kant and Heidegger
... Reason but also with Kant’s pre-critical work, The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God (1763), in which Kant explicitly addressed the question of being for the first time. Heidegger focuses on the transcendental power of imagination not only as the “common root” of sensibility and understanding, but also as the fundamental faculty of ontological cognition. He links it with the phenomenon of time, arguing that the object of knowledge as such is also linked ...
Translation and Discourse Analysis
... ‘discourse’ is understood in a narrower or a wider sense, discourse analysis aims at examining the structure and the function of language in various contexts and/or at revealing patterns of belief and habitual action, as well as social roles and power relations (Critical Discourse Analysis). Since translation can be characterised as an act of communication across linguistic and cultural boundaries, with source text and target text representing language in use, concepts and methods of discourse ...
Transformations in the Communicative Characteristics of Political Discourse in the Current Information Space
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Coalition Within a Coalition: The Baltics in the European Union
This article gives an overview of small power problem focusing on the behaviour of small power states within coalitions and their proneness to free riding. To pursue an independent agenda and increase their significance within large associations, the authors argue, small powers tend to ...
On ensuring the energy security of the Kaliningrad region
... problem is to integrate the region in the common energy market of the Baltic Sea region, which would serve the interests of all Baltic Sea states.
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Doctrine of Absolute and Ordered Power of God in Medieval Natural Theology
The article deals with the methods of defining Divine Omnipotence introduced by medieval philosophers. The author presents the historical background of the development of the notion of absolute and ordered power of God in medieval natural theology.
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The power industry of the Kaliningrad region: an analysis of the current state, future development, and cooperation with the energy systems of the Baltic Region states
This article analyses the current state of the power system of the Kaliningrad region and gives recommendations regarding the increase in energy efficiency. The author considers the prospects of its development taking into account the possible accession of the Baltic States to the UCTE.
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Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... and Belarus, including cross-border collaborations. Yet, this decision seems to create more problems for Poland than its eastern neighbours. If the current trends persist, the eastern voivodeships, the stronghold of the right-wing conservatives in power, may not only rapidly lose population but also face a reduction in the level of socioeconomic development.
Introduction
In the second and the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the population structure in Europe underwent significant ...
The unexpected someone in Nobel history
... dialectic the dictatorship of another pernicious SOMEONE who sets the false movement. In a remarkable symmetry to post-structuralist theories about the “totalitarianism of language”, Handke experiences in his own verbalized existence the pernicious power of some of this totalitarianism, seeking to free himself from it in a kind of poetic resistance to the dictatorship of those discursive practices of the Western world that lead to the “death of the subject” (Foucault). After Handke’s essays ...
About the application of 5G technology in the automa-tion of power distribution networks
The paper considers the features of the application of 5G technology in the electric power complex — in automated systems of distribution networks, relay protection and monitoring systems. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the problems arising in this case in technical standards, network security issues, ensuring the ...
Breakthrough in Chinese Kant Scholarship. Interview with Prof. Deng Xiaomang
Prof. Deng Xiaomang’s translations of the Critique of the Power of Judgment (2002), the Critique of Practical Reason (2003), and the Critique of Pure Reason (2004), were the first Chinese editions of Kant’s three Critiques translated in their entirety from the German originals. This interview tracks his scholarship,...
Intellectualization of operational and technological control of regional electric power by cognitive hybrid intelligent systems. Part 2
... intuitive decision-making based on the demonstrated image of the problem situation and the proposed options for understanding it,. This paper presents the results of the study of the subject of operational and technological management in the regional power system, the features of his work, thinking and his surrounding reality.
Kolesnikov A. V., Rumovskaya S. B., Yasinsky E. V., Demyanets R. V.
intelligent power system, the subject of control, the thinking of the operator, the language of relations ...
Intellectualization of operational and technological control of regional electric power by cognitive hybrid intelligent systems. Part 1
... presents the results of the work of the first stage of the second year of the research on the topic of cognitive hybrid intelligent systems. Namely, results of the study of the operational and technological control system of the regional electric power system, results of the categorization of the ontological semantics of the objective reality and the mathematical reality of the object of technology operations activities.
Kolesnikov A.V., Rumovskaya S.B., Yasinsky E.V., Soldatov S.A.
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Types of Representational Content in Kant
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