Bücher der Reihe Studies in European Integration, State and Society

The book compares two perspectives on crisis - that of political science and the economic one. The texts of the book are focused on analyzing four elements: the development problem, the structural problem, the management problem and the problem of the weakening legitimacy.

The book analyzes the set of consequences of Polish cities' participation in the competition for the title of European Capital of Culture 2016, which was held between 2007 and 2011.

Every single human being is becoming unintentionally more and more dependent on Information and Communication technologies. In a reality of ambient intelligence we all sacrifice our rights for the sake of convenience and security.

This book attempts to show the context of the clash of the fundamental values "democracy" and "solidarity" which serve as the leading political principles of European integration. Therefore several further concepts and problems have been discussed such as the issue of identity, the concept of citizenship and the problem of nationalism.

This book reconstructs, in the context of Polish and European history and culture, the picture of Europe and European integration present in Poles' minds. The reconstruction is based on semantic analyses of linguistic data. In the discourses, two profiles of Europe are found: Europe as a stronghold and Europe as a community.

These articles result from "The Polish local society in the process of European integration - a decade of experience". It investigates the EU integration of 6 Polish local communities. The results show a low level of knowledge of the EU in local Poland, with the funds as the main factor determining Poles' positive attitude towards the EU.

The authors analyse how contemporary European states attempt to be active actors, responding to the crisis of the international order, in divergent and sometimes contradictory ways. This phenomenon inevitably leads to the undermining of many existing cooperation mechanisms, but it also reveals the limitations in terms of the state actions.

The book studies representations of the Other, their construction, Europeanization and use in Poland and Sweden in various heritage related contexts. The book accentuates the social inclusion, marginalization or - increasingly common in Scandinavian and Central European peripheries - exclusion.

This book presents the evolution of Germany's stance on the reform of the European Union in 2002-2016. It analyses the positions of the German government and parliamentary opposition on the reform of the European Union's political system, the reform of the Economic and Monetary Union and the Eurozone, and on the EU immigration crisis.

The book offers an interpretive approach to the Europeanization of heritage as found in museums. In order to make the analysis of museum diversity feasible, the research proposed and applied an analytical framework.

This volume speaks to the inter-disciplinary issues related to divergence and convergence processes and situations in contact regions, offering fresh and innovative insights from the crucial Central-Eastern European area where conflict and coexistence potentials seem to best represent the "unity in diversity" managing dilemma on the continent.

This study considers the multidimensional nature of the construction of the active civil society in the post-totalitarian reality of Central and Eastern Europe, covering the period of systemic transformations in the region in 1989 to the EU accession of 2004. The analysis was carried out using a multidisciplinary research perspective which incorporates historical, sociological, and legal insights, as well as those from political science. The volume illustrates the dynamic character of the process of constructing an active civil society process in a broader comparative perspective against the background of post-totalitarian societies, Germany and Italy, which underwent the process of democratic transformation in 1945 and went on to actively forge the European Community in the 1950s.

The book consists of four chapters. The first one contains information about the topic which introduce the project's characteristics, and, at the same time, provide the background for further theoretical and methodological reflection. The second chapter contains a list of research problems and questions, a presentation of the philosophical worldviews (research paradigms) of the project team who guided the planned research and which resulted in the adoption of research strategies compatible with them, and, consequently, procedures and techniques for obtaining source materials and their analysis. In the third chapter, we present a set of terms, ideas, and concepts which inspired the project team as useful tools for describing and analysing the phenomenon under study. The fourth chapter is a kind of ligature that binds together all the previous findings, it is a summary of integrating ideas, concepts, as well as the adopted research procedures and techniques.