Recent Volumes
VOLUME 2: NEW AND SOCIAL MEDIA… & REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA
Volume 2, Issue 1 2014 Global Trend: New and Social Media – instruments of utopian desires or enhanced empowerment? How do authoritarian regimes react...
VOLUME 1: THE PRECARIAT…& UNDEREXPLORED DIMENSIONS OF BEIJING’S FOREIGN POLICY…
Volume 1, Issue 1 2013 Global Trend: The Precariat: Between revolution, temporary protest or a message for change? Europe’s social landscape is changing, especially...
Volume 2, Issue 1 2014 // separate articles
VOLATILITY, NICHES AND HYBRIDS: THE NEW MEDIA IN ACTION – interview with Paolo Mancini
“What is the revolution? The digitalization!” – claims Professor Paolo Mancini. And, yes: there is no doubt that the role of new media, that…
Victor Adetula : REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE AND STABILITY IN AFRICA
Can there be regional integration if there is no peace and stability? Professor Victor Adetula gives a detailed overview of the steps taken by…
Ian Taylor: REGIONAL GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA
Scholars of African Studies have since long discovered that African leaders have adapted the Western concept of the state to their own needs and…
Volume 1, Issue 1 2013 // separate articles
FAR AWAY FROM “SOLID MODERNITY” – interview with Zygmunt Bauman
“The discovery of the precarious position of the majority of middle classes (…) And indeed the increasing popularity of the notion of precariat were…
EXERCISING FREEDOM – interview with Judith Butler
Can we exercise freedom like we exercise our bodies? Do protesters have to use their bodies to occupy the public space to make their…
JOIN TOGETHER, DEMAND CHANGE AND RISK – interview with Guy Standing
Scientists and students, professional and manual workers, occupiers and those who remain at home; people with stable employment and those without, everyone who is…
KRZYSZTOF GAWLIKOWSKI: THE NATURE AND DYNAMICS OF DENG XIAOPING’S REFORMS
China’s road to superpower status really started in the late 1970s with a burst of reforms adopted under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping. Decisions…
VLADIMIR PORTYAKOV: RUSSIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS: CURRENT STAGE AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
The turn of 2012 and 2013 proved to be an auspicious time for Sino-Russian relations. As both states adjusted their foreign policies to changing…
JAN SOWA: MULTITUDE AS A SUBJECT OF DEMOCRATIC EVOLUTIONS. SEVERAL CONCLUSIONS FROM THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF A COLLECTIVE VOICE
Year 2011 was a significant turning point in the case of protest movements. This text is an analysis of the concept of multitude in…