Магістерська робота присвячена міжнародному контексту створення Польської держави в період 1918-1921 років. Предметом дослідження визначено формування кордонів незалежної Польщі та вплив цих подій на загальноєвропейські політичні процеси. В процесі дослідження ми дійшли висновку, що саме конфліктні ситуації, пов'язані з проблемою кордонів національних держав перешкодили створенню загальноєвропейської системи колективної безпеки ; The master's thesis is devoted to the international context of the creation of the Polish state in the period 1918-1921. The subject of the study is the formation of the borders of independent Poland and the impact of these events on European political processes. In the course of the research we came to the conclusion that it was the conflict situations related to the problem of the borders of nation states that prevented the creation of a pan-European system of collective security.
This is a multiauthorial review essay of Daniel Ziblatt's Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton: Princeton U Press, 2006) that includes a rebuttal by Ziblatt. Maurizio Cotta notes the persuasiveness & convincibility of the factors singled out by Ziblatt in support of the book's central thesis that the unification of Italy & Prussian Germany in the second half of the 19th century, although begun in both countries with similar regional institutions, ended with a centrist government in the former & a federalist regime in the latter. He questions, however, his attempt to project these factors in developing a more comprehensive theory of the emergence of major nation states in Western Europe, pointing out that the generalization that gives a satisfactory account for Germany & Italy becomes a fallacy when extended to Belgium or the Netherlands. Alfio Mastropaolo objects Ziblatt's implicit premise that federalism is superior to a centrist-unitarian governance & the implied conclusion that Italy would have fared better with a federalist government after its unification. He observes that neither Germany was spared from Nazism by federalism & nor Italy from Fascism by centralism. Mastropaolo points out that Ziblatt overlooks the importance of ideological factors, in particular the strong sentiments favoring a unitarian state in pre-1861 Italy. Gianfranco Poggi notes that the book fails to consider some important cultural & ideological theories of federalism that suggest an alternative explanation of the preference for federalism in Germany but not Italy. In his rebuttal, Ziblatt replies to the objections raised by each interviewer, defending the descriptive-explanatory efficacy of the historical-comparative approach adopted in the book & Charles Ragin's (1987) qualitative-comparative analysis applied in the extension of the generalization to other European states. He flatly rejects Mastropaolo's imputation that the book favors federalism as a superior form of government. Ziblatt also provides a rationale to justify the relevance of comparing the unification experience of Italy & Prussian Germany for contemporary political science. Z. Dubiel
At present, besides confessional states, assuming the existence of one official religion, there are some secular states been characterized by the Church separation from the state and the state – from the Church. The secular states assume a Church – State relations system based on the division to be commonly identified with the principles of the Church from the state separation. The subject of the article is an analysis of the secular states system. The main methods of the research are the comparison and analysis. Within the secular state system there are two elements to be identified: positive and negative. For the states of the Central and Eastern Europe, the moderate secular state model is an inherent one. It has appeared as a result of totalitarianism been transformed into democracy. The secular state guarantees equality of all churches and relations within its borders. There is no single universal model of the secular state. The secular state system has two variants: a radical separation of the Church from the state or autonomy and cooperation between them. Among secular states with a moderate version, one can point Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland.
