Arab Spring countries two years after the revolution: economic aspects; background; consequences; forecasts

Artykuł analizuje transformację ustrojową państw po Arabskiej Wiośnie: Egiptu, Tunezji, Libii i Syrii. Opisuje obecną sytuację gospodarczą i proces transformacji oraz perspektywy na najbliższą przyszłość. Kraje te są bowiem na etapie anarchii lub zmiany paradygmatu systemowego, stare zasady zostały obalone, pojawili się nowi gracze polityczni, ale ich pozycja nie jest jeszcze ustalona, społeczeństwa wciąż tkwią w fazie przejściowej

Book Review

Review of the book Piątkowski, M. (2018). Europe’s Growth Champion. Insights from the Economic Rise of Poland. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Land grabbing as a symptom of state dysfunctionality

In the last fi ve years we are witnessing a new trend in the global economy, in relation to the rural land trade on the international market, defi ned as land grabbing. The buyers are represented by rich well organized states and the sellers are failed states of Africa, Asia and Latin America. This new type of business is in relation to a very high level of instability of the World economy. It leads to continues changes of the institutional framework manifested by a lack of regulations and a monitoring system.This in turn creates moral hazard performed by countries-buyers. Such transactions take a form of neo colonialism. It’s a situation where one party deliberately takes advantage of the weakness of the other. Disfunctionality of the seller is used for maximizing profi ts of the buyer. This chapter presents case studies which are exemplifi cation of the phenomena of land grabbing

Państwa Arabskiej Wiosny dwa lata po rewolucji. Kondycja ekonomiczna, szanse i zagrozenia

Artykuł analizuje transformację ustrojową państw po Arabskiej Wiośnie: Egiptu, Tunezji, Libii i Syrii. Opisuje obecną sytuację gospodarczą i proces transformacji oraz perspektywy na najbliższą przyszłość. Kraje te są bowiem na etapie anarchii lub zmiany paradygmatu systemowego, stare zasady zostały obalone, pojawili się nowi gracze polityczni, ale ich pozycja nie jest jeszcze ustalona, społeczeństwa wciąż tkwią w fazie przejściowej

Evolution of the Identity of Europeans in the XXI Century

The aim of this article is to describe the evolution of identity within European societies in the 21st century driven by two factors that overlap – migration crisis of 2015 and globalization as well as the impact of these two factors on the European liberal economic and political model. The aforementioned processes have generated several negative effects and as a result they have put to test the elaborate and long-time project of United Europe. Particular nations started to loudly express their concerns and objections regarding the rules governing economic relations and the ways of dealing with migration issues. The multidimensional sense of insecurity has inspired a pan-European dispute with questions regarding areas and scope of unity, sovereignty etc. Some turbulence in identity of European nations has been observed leading to different changes in perception of identity including recurrence of seemingly long forgotten definitions of national identity. One can even say that the future success of the EU project has become dependent on the problem of European identity. This article is an attempt to analyze the impact of aforementioned factors on the identity of European societies