The aim of this chapter is to analyze the reasons of failure in establishing a stable framework for Sino-Japanese security cooperation after the end of Cold War. Since the 1990s both countries have tried many times to ...

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie ogólnych ram teoretycznych dla badań w zakresie budowania wizerunku miasta wśród społeczności akademickiej poprzez wydarzenia (a w szczególności poprzez festiwale). Pierwszą część tekstu ...

This paper argues that Australia and Japan, taking a cooperative approach, are able to successfully re-shape the regional security architecture in the Asia-Pacific. Due to their ambiguous characteristics of being ‘in-between’ ...

First part of the paper considers the problem of defining food security and scientists’ current attitude towards defining and measuring the level of food security. The second part presents an overview of the current food ...

Der Zweck des Artikels ist die Presentation und Diskussion über die Formen der direkten Demokratie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, als direkte Demokration und die Beteiligung der deutschen Gesellschaft in das politische ...

The main objective of this chapter is to characterise the activities between French regions and Chinese provinces or cities – their intensity, scopes, advantages and obstacles. Besides, as the context for the paradiplomacy, ...

Koenkai 後援会 individual support group of Japanese politicians has become phenomenon that has no equivalent in any Western democratic country. It emerged on political scene long before introduction of universal suffrage, ...

In Wien und seiner Umgebung lebten gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts 30 Tausend und zu Beginn 1914 über 49 Tausend ansässige Polen. Die nationalbewussten Polen schlossen sich zu einheimischen Vereinen und Institutionen ...