Jaroslaw Janczak

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań | UAM · Faculty of Political Science and Journalism

Auch die 24. Ausgabe des Jahrbuchs ist ein breit angelegtes Kompendium, das den Leser:innen – primär in Politik, Verwaltung, Wissenschaft, Forschung, Lehre, Studium sowie in der interessierten Öffentlichkeit – in 36 Beiträgen einen aktuellen und zusammenfassenden Überblick über verschiedene Aspekte föderaler und regionaler Struktur und Politik biet...

The aim of this article is to review the strategic partnership of the European Union-Japan in the context of the changing global order, exploring economic, normative and security dimensions. This leads to wider reflections allowing us to theorize international relations with regards to the concept of strategic partnerships. The research question co...

The article overviews cross-border cooperation across Polish borders in the last three decades. Deeply rooted in conflictive border legacies and border shifts in the first half of the twentieth century, they quickly became locations of symbolic reconciliation with neighbours and functional cooperation aiming at economic development. The non-linear...

The European Union’s development has resulted in modifications of its institutional model. In the context of external activities, this refers to the distribution of formal competences on the one hand, and the functioning of European institutions in practice on the other, especially with regard to informal mechanisms. The aim of this article is to a...

Brańka, Donaj, and Jańczak deal with the problem of space and borders in the political region spreading between the Baltic and Black seas. Starting with the conceptual considerations on territoriality, borders, and border change, they look for elements constituting spatial dynamics in the region. At the same time, however, they also try to investig...

The presented article maps processes of bordering, de-bordering and re-bordering in East Asia with maritime borders and territorial claims as the central elements of the analysis. The key question of the investigation is why some maritime territorial disputes are amplified when other are silenced in the region? The author concentrates on two island...

The presented article reflects on three categories: political consulting, lobbying and the border between them. Its aim is to build a conceptual apparatus and methodological instrumentarium associated with the concept of the border, the delimitation of both studied concepts and the presentation of mutual relations between them. It searches for insp...

The presented text deals with the analysis of the empirical material, using conceptual apparatus and the interpretation scheme presented in the chapter “The concept of the border in the context of differences between political advice and lobbying in the political decision-making process”. The analysis of the content of interviews with Polish and Ge...

Old Borders – New Challenges, New Borders – Old Challenges. De-Bordering and Re-Bordering in Contemporary Europe

The aim of this article is to understand the nature and dynamism of cross-border cooperation in Europe by taking cross-border projects of INTERREG program implemented in the period 2007–2013 as examples and the concepts of (a)symmetry and potential differences as a conceptual framework. The case of the German-Polish border has been chosen and the a...

The border between Germany and Poland represents one of the most interesting examples of dynamic political, economic and social transformation one can observe in post-Cold War Europe, being a very successful example of close cooperation. Ongoing debordering logics can be noticed there, but their forms and pace also reveal stagnation, or even regres...

Cross-border cooperation nowadays plays a crucial role in Europe and is very attractive for the local authorities of border units and for border communities. It is especially visible in border twin towns—settlements located directly on a state border, and having a similar partner on the other side. This article aims at filling a gap that exists in...

The modification process of the European Union’s institutional order appears to be permanent. One of the elements of this tendency is the position of the European Council, which is especially interesting in the field of stimulating external EU activities. The aim of this analysis is to explore the EC’s engagement in initiating foreign relations, ta...

This paper categorizes various schemes of cross-border collaboration of European border twin towns. It is methodologically based on field work and data collected during semi-structured interviews with local actors involved in twinning processes, and answers why towns integrate across borders, and how it happens. The article presents empirical devel...

Rozwój Unii Europejskiej powoduje zmiany w jej modelu instytucjonalnym. W kontekście działań zewnętrznych dotyczy to z jednej strony rozkładu kompetencji formalnych, z drugiej praktyki funkcjonowania instytucji unijnych, szczególnie w zakresie mechanizmów nieformalnych. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza zaangażowania Rady Europejskiej w kreow...

In the context of the mounting crisis of the European integration project, cross-border cooperation appears to be one of the dynamically developing exceptions. This in particular concerns the instrument of the European grouping of territorial cooperation (EGTC). Recent years have seen a considerable increase in the number of groupings established a...

The article deals with phantom borders in electoral behavior in Poland. Being aware of the already wide litera-ture in this field, the author tries to fill a gap existing in the research by investigating scale as a factor determining phantom borders' construction. Two historical-administrative regions, Wielkopolska and Pomorze (crossed by relict bo...

Presented paper aims at proposing a new approach to understanding the current border relations between the European Union and Russia, by claiming, that changing political, economic and social circumstances has undermined the already dominating paradigms in studying borders. The new relations are based on competition, confrontation and even conflict...

Along with the post-war European integration process, the western part of the continent has experienced decades of stability and prosperity, which was gradually supplemented with growing levels of mutual trust, collaboration and openness. Eroding internal Schengen borders have illustrated this process well, symbolizing additionally de-boundarizatio...

The main dimensions of border studies in European border studies include phantom borders, geopolitical boundaries, internal Schengen frontiers and external Schengen boundaries. They have been identified as a result of applying various scales/levels of analysis and the time-analysis perspective. They also constitute the main determinants of further...

The purpose of this analysis is to take a look at integration and disintegration processes in Central Europe from the perspective of twin towns. The premise of the paper is the statement that the integration processes, as seen from the perspective of the border, evidence deboundarization which is inspired by continental integration, but also show t...

L’article a pour objet la dynamique des transformations dans les zones frontalières centre-européennes, après la chute du communisme. Notre micro-perspective est appliquées à trois frontières en Europe centrale (Germano-polonaise, slovaco-hongroise et roumano-bulgare) et cinq couples de villes dont nous analysons les inter-actions. Nous observons q...

The paper discusses the Polish presidency of the EU Council in terms of its priorities. It analyzes the circumstances of their formulation, selection and implementation. The authors answer the question of what influenced the selection of Poland’s priorities and what selection mechanisms were applied. Additionally, they examine how the national agen...

Zmiana skali postrzegania procesów integracyjnych pozwala na inną ocenę ich przyczyn i przebiegu. Graniczne miasta bliźniacze są tu ciekawym przykładem dla analizy empirycznej. Badanie dyskursu integracyjnego ich struktur administracyjnych daje możliwość zdefiniowania kilku różnych schematów współpracy/integracji transgranicznej. To między innymi s...

Dynamic (re)development of the border studies in Europe and North America after the collapse of communism proved both (geo)political relevance of disappearing and reappearing boundaries, as well as academic interest in describing, explaining and categorizing the above-mentioned processes. Thy have been however homogeneous neither in empirical dimen...

The dynamization of integration processes in Europe has generated numerous research topics for political analysis. Border integration is an expression of the broader unification processes of certain structures. It is also a manifestation of the observation that people think globally, but function locally. The European integration perspective is the...

Studia europejskie jako element internacjonalizacji szkolnictwa wyższego w Unii Europejskiej

The aim of this article is to investigate how the European university education sector is being internationalized. The authors test „European Studies” programs, assuming that due to their peculiar character they are the forerunners of change, which results, among other things, from Europeanization processes. The field of „Teaching Europe” is mapped...

Research into borders and frontiers in the context of European integration has evolved leading to the question of the shape of the external borders of the EU and their organization in relation to the external surroundings. The approach to how the unification processes of the continent are presented has recently changed, and the Union is being perce...