Books in the Studies in Politics, Security and Society series

The Islamic World comprises territories of Muslim states throughout the world. This area faces a lot of dilemmas regarding ethnic and religious conflicts as well as political and economic instability. The authors address the topic from the perspective of international security, foreign policy, economic and energy policy as well as regional studies.

In this volume Alojzy Z. Nowak presents articles by different authors who analyse the impact of the current crisis in the financialisation of the world economy. The contributions also discuss the ethical failures of the financial crisis in Europe and whether continued convergence is the answer to the Euro area crisis.

The aim of the book is to analyze the perception of the Tsarist and Bolshevik Russia in the Polish political thought in the 19th and 20th century. The wide and well-documented research applied an original multidisciplinary approach, combining the methods used in many disciplines, such as history, social science and social psychology.

The purpose of this book is to encourage the use and exploration of imagination, intuition and insight as essential ingredients for scientific, educational and civic endeavors. This groundbreaking book is a kind of intellectual provocation, but also an antidote for our current crises in education.

This book is the outcome of in-depth academic research on the civil service carried out by acknowledged international (B.G. Peters, Ch. Demmke) and national experts in the field. The goal is to summarise the studies on the transformations in the civil service systems in European and other countries, with a special focus on civil service in Poland.

The structure of the book is unconventional. The issues presented are extremely contextual, subject to an ongoing discussion. From the scientific point of view, the territorial differentiation in the traditional uniform of the Nation-State is simply reconfigured and reshaped due to the new logic new logic of internal market competition.

This book analyzes political representation, treating it both as a political idea and a principle of law. It describes the main themes and characters of the debate on political representation from the early 19th century to the present, when once again it is a pressing topic resulting from the "crisis in democracy" witnessed in the new century.

The book analyzes the theoretical and practical aspects of civil service in Polish public administration and discusses it in a European context. The civil service is explored from a comparative, historical and systemic perspective.

This book analyses how contemporary political science can develop as a structure of knowledge gathered by the individual sub-disciplines of political studies, as well as the remaining disciplines of social sciences. This work presents a strategy of integrating knowledge about man and society.