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The Arab Uprisings in Historical Perspective

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At the turn of 2011, turbulent events occurred in the Middle East. Initially, these protests were a form of civil disobedience, but the situation later developed in several directions. In Tunisia and Egypt, the authorities finally gave in to the growing protests. In Jordan, Algeria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Mauritania, Sudan and Oman, the authorities managed to convince the public that they would meet their needs. The authorities in Syria, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain took the harshest positions. In Tunisia and Egypt free elections were conducted, and these countries have started to build a democratic system. This experiment, however, was interrupted in Egypt on July 3, 2013 by the intervention of the army. Can one assume that the Arab Spring is now a closed chapter in the history of the Middle East? This article refers to the sources of the Arab Spring and demonstrates its importance for the future of the region.
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The article gives an idea about the ideological basis for a political program whose goal is to further reduce the function of the state in the economy and to be a controlling instrument for social life. That basis is supplied by the mainstream economics and „new political economy” developed from this mainstream economics’ groundwork. It postulates the evolution of the process of supremacy under the name of governance. The state should be limited to the function of steering, whereas the function of rowing should be given to other actors, especially civil society organizations. The slogan has become an ideological catchphrase for the technoliberalism. Moreover, in the triad of market, state and civil society, the last is still a class society where the industrial conflict is the axis of its organization and functioning. The nation state is still the only real instrument to shape the collective destiny of political and civic community. Therefore, it must be the distribute, protective, productive and developmental state. However, the state itself is not transparent and generates additional costs of its functioning. It creates a regulatory order whose operation is the burden of transaction costs for the society. Functioning of the state in such conditions make it possible for companies and business groups to do a political rent-seeking. In such case, the practical challenge is not to create a low-cost state, but the state which effectively uses public funds to achieve the objectives dictated by the macrosocial rationality. For this, however, there is a need of efficient control of the state bureaucracy and the political state’s personnel. Possible form of such control is the participatory democracy of citizens aware of their interests and thus, fully empowered.
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Dynamika przemian polityki zmusza badaczy do korzystania z różnych paradygmatów naukowych, podejść badawczych, technik, metod i metodologii. Niniejszy tekst jest refleksją nad zastosowaniem podejścia krytycznego oraz wykorzystania w większym zakresie podejścia i postawy krytycznej do badania rzeczywistości społeczno- -politycznej. Częstsze wykorzystanie zasobów tego podejścia jest rozbudowaniem możliwości politologii o metody badawcze, refleksję i postawy mogące sprostać wielu problemom polskiej współczesności, w tym zaspokojenia oczekiwań zwolenników politologii stosowanej. W artykule ukazano przyczyny niewielkiego zastosowania tego podejścia w Polsce oraz argumenty za zmianą tego stanu. Uzasadniono także potrzebę częstszego przyjmowania postawy krytycznej wobec współczesnych zjawisk społeczno-politycznych.
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The dynamic character of political changes necessitates the use of various scientific paradigms, research approaches, techniques, methods and methodologies. The following paper constitutes a reflection on the application of critical approach and examines how the critical approach and attitude can be applied more broadly to study a socio-political situation. Making this approach more popular should help to expand the potential of political science with research methods, reflection and attitudes that can help address numerous problems of contemporary Polish situation and meet the expectations of the proponents of applied political science as well. The paper explores the reasons behind the reluctance in the use of this approach in Poland and presents arguments supporting the change in this state of affairs. The reasons why a critical stance towards contemporary socio-political phenomena should be employed more often are also provided.
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Book review refers to the monograph of T. Klementewicz Stakes Larger than the Market. The Roots of Stagnating Capitalism without Borders. Taking on the “clone of Milton Friedman” the author undertakes polemics, among others, with the key hypothesis formulated by T. Klementewicz “The capitalist world economy – after three decades of neoliberal globalization of carnival – entered… the stage of stagnation.”.
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