NGOs’ development in Ukraine and Georgia: social and political dimensions

• Authors: Yatsenko Arsen , Tkeshelashvili Irina , Hurak Ihor

Title variants

PL

Rozwój organizacji pozarządowych w Ukrainie i w Gruzji: wymiar społeczny i polityczny

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article’s aim is to analyse the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their crucial ability of activeness under critical circumstances such as the transformation of a state. Starting in the 1990s, the studies were mainly focused on NGOs’ role as development actors in social and institutional formations. New research makes particular accents on their role in political and social discourses both in Georgia and Ukraine, which enriches the science with new empirical material related to the involvement of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the state progress and legislation processes. This article is an attempt to provide an argument for moving forward research on NGOs/CSOs within political science and international relations via comparing the institutional involvement of NGOs in two development-oriented countries – Georgia and Ukraine.

PL

Celem artykułu jest analiza roli organizacji pozarządowych (NGOs) oraz ocena ich zdolności do działania w krytycznych okolicznościach, takich jak transformacja państwa. Od lat 90. ubiegłego wieku badania koncentrowały się głównie na roli organizacji pozarządowych jako aktorów rozwoju w formacjach społecznych i instytucjonalnych. Niniejsze badanie kładzie szczególny nacisk na rolę organizacji społeczeństwa obywatelskiego w dyskursie politycznym i medialnym zarówno w Gruzji, jak i na Ukrainie, wzbogacając naukę o nowy materiał empiryczny, związany z zaangażowaniem takich organizacji w procesy legislacyjne oraz w rozwój państwa. Artykuł stanowi próbę przedstawienia argumentu za rozwojem badań nad organizacjami pozarządowymi w ramach politologii i stosunków międzynarodowych poprzez porównanie zaangażowania instytucjonalnego tych organizacji w dwóch krajach nastawionych na rozwój – w Gruzji i Ukrainie.

Keywords

EN

non-governmental organisations (NGOs); civil society organisations (CSOs); Georgia; Ukraine; European Union (EU); Eastern Partnership

PL

organizacje pozarządowe (NGOs); organizacje społeczeństwa obywatelskiego (CSOs); Gruzja; Ukraina; Unia Europejska (UE); Partnerstwo Wschodnie

• Publisher: Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Przegląd Europejski
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 1(63)
• Pages: 161-176

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Yatsenko Arsen

• University of Wrocław

author

Tkeshelashvili Irina

• University of Opole

author

Hurak Ihor

• Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University

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