Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe 2002-1
POLAND
Dewajtis 5
01 - 815 Warszawa
Tel.: +4822 839 82 05
Fax: +4822 839 82 05
E-mail: ip@uksw.edu.pl
Internet: http://www.uksw.edu.pl
Management: Juros, Helmut Prof. (head)
Year of foundation: 1999
Staff: 20
Departments and Chairs:
* Department of Political Science:
Chair of methodology and political theory; Chair of History of ideas and
political doctrines; Chair of political systems; Chair of state theory and
international politics; Chair of social and political ethics; Chair of economic
ethics and economic policy; Chair of social and demographic policy; Chair of
geopolitics; Chair of contemporary social thought of the church; Chair of
European bank law and financial policy;
* Department of Sociology
Chair of general sociology; Chair of Statistics and sociological research
methodology; Chair of classical sociological theories; Chair of contemporary
sociological thought; Chair of sociology of marriage and family; Chair sociology
of religion; Chair of cultural sociology; Chair of sociology of education; Chair
of sociology of work and organisation; Chair of urban and village sociology;
Chair of demography; Chair of social process sociology
Main fields: European Integration, globalisation processes, demography
and population policy, socio-economic transformation in Poland and other
post-socialist countries.
Research topics:.
* Cultural and social aspects of integration of Poland to the European Union.
Redefinition of traditional model of nation-state. The role of church and
religion in the integration processes. Philosophical and cultural foundations of
European unity.
* Economic and social aspects of globalisation.
* Economic and social transformation of Poland. Formation of democratic model
of constitutional state in Poland in comparison to different European models.
* Political systems of Western Europe and Northern America. Political and
socio-economic transformation of post-socialist countries.
* Social teaching of the Catholic Church in view of crucial political and
economic problems of contemporary world.
* Demographic and population policy. Bioethics and bio-policy .
Research projects:
* Stadium Generale Europa
* Church - state - society in Europe
Publications/ papers: The Institute publishes working papers on
European integration entitled "Studium Generale Europa" in Polish
language.
Degree courses: The Institute offers MA courses in political science
and sociology and PhD-courses in sociology.
Events: The Institute organised together with Polish Academy of
Science and German Historical Institute an international conference on
"Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism in Europe. Short- and Long-Term
Perspectives" (Warsaw, September 2000) and together with the Department of
Political Science of the German Society for East European "Current Problems
of Polish-Ukrainian Relations and Their Historical Roots" (Szczecin,
November 2000).
Place of publication: Warsaw
Publication dates: since 1997, yearly
Published by: Institute of Political Studies of Polish Academy of
Sciences and Centre for Political Thought
Edited by:
Institute of Political Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Polna 18/20
00625 Warsaw
Tel.: +4822 8255221
Fax: +4822 8252146
E-mail:Civitas@isppan.waw.pl
Editor- in-chief: Kaczorowski, P.
Subject area: Theory of Politics, Political Philosophy, Political
Thought, State and Citizen, Power and Freedom
Headings: Articles, Reviews
The journal appears in Polish. It contains an English list of contents.
Contents of 2001 (no. 5) as an example:
Articles:
* Kubok, D.: Arche - Principle and power
* Gladziuk, N.: The Babel
* Markiewicz, B.A.: Freedom of Power
* Stawrowski, Z.: Power of Freedom
* Gadacz, T.: Freedom and Power
* Kaczorowski, P.: On the Division of Power
* Merta, T.: Power - The Enemy of the Freedom?
* Bielek-Robson, A.: Political Freedom in Hanna Arendt's Thought
* Potepa, M.: Power and Freedom in the Political Thought of Hanna Arendt and
Martin Heidegger
* Siwek, A.: Libertas et Falsum
* Staniszkis, J.: Power - In Search for the New Paradigm
* Matuszek, K.: Reflections on the Role of a Politician. Carl Schmitt's
Concept of Freedom against Weberian Theory of Politics
* Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz, A.: Citizen and State in the Polish Political Thought
of the 18th Century
* Marciniak, W.: Power and Freedom in the Russian Political Thought
Reviews
Widacki,J.; M1czyński,M.; Czapska,J.; Czapliński,W.; Wyrozumska, A.
(ed.), 2001: Local Community, Public Security Central and Eastern European
Countries under Transformation.
Warsaw: Institute of Public Affairs, 290 p.
Publications 2000 of Western Institute, Poznan:
(Abstracts of all publications are available in English at: http://www.iz.poznan.pl/en/indexen.htm
Wolff-Poweska, A.; Schulz, E., 2000 To be a Pole in Germany (orig.
title: Byc Polakiem w Niemczech).
Poznan: German studies section of the Western Institute, No. 78, 560 pages,
annex, includes a summary in German,
Droste Verlag published the German language edition.
Markowski, R.; Wnuk-Lipinski, E., 2001: Transformative Paths in Central
and Eastern Europe.
Warsaw: Institute of Political Studies of Polish Academy of Sciences;
Friedrich Ebert Foundation Warsaw. - 206 p.
Women & Science. Poland, Report December 2000
Warsaw: State committee for scientific research
http://www.kbn.gov.pl/en/women_science/index.html
Treaty of Nice - the Polish Position, 2001 - conference paper.
Warsaw: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Centre of Europe and Information Unit on
the Council of Europe Warsaw University (February 2001)
(translated by Agata Dziewulska; Anna Ostrowska; Dariusz Milczarek)
http://www.ce.uw.edu.pl/english/english.htm#PUBLICATIONS
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