https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/atomPolitologija2024-03-04T12:54:44+00:00Justinas Dementavičiusjustinas.dementavicius@tspmi.vu.ltOpen Journal Systems<p>Founded in 1989 and dedicated to publishing articles on political science and international relations, and interdisciplinary topics. Indexed in the <em>Scopus</em> (Q4) database since 2012.</p>https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/34780Chronicle2024-03-04T12:56:19+00:00Vaiva ŠileikytėOna RinkevičiūtėGabija JanuškaitėAustėja DūdonytėMantvydas TamulisŽanas ZabėliusBenas Putrimas
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2023-12-28T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Authorshttps://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/34779Editorial Board and Table of Contents2024-03-04T12:45:29+00:00Justinas Dementavičius
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2023-12-28T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Authorshttps://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/34532Atminties aktyvizmas tarp vertybių ir interesų: paminklai, muziejai ir institucijos2024-03-04T12:50:10+00:00Violeta DavoliūtėThomas CauvinDovilė Budrytė
<h4 lang="en-US"><em>Specialus „Politologijos“ numeris</em></h4> <p lang="en-US"><em>Kviestiniai redaktoriai</em></p> <p lang="en-US"><strong>Violeta Davoliūtė<br></strong>Vilniaus universitetas</p> <p lang="en-US"><strong>Thomas Cauvin<br></strong>Liuksemburgo universitetas</p> <p lang="en-US"><strong>Dovilė Budrytė<br></strong>Georgia Gwinnett College</p>
2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 Authorshttps://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/34490Memory Activism between Values and Interests: Monuments, Museums and Institutions2024-03-04T12:50:10+00:00Violeta DavoliūtėThomas CauvinDovilė Budrytė
<h4 lang="en-US"><em>Special Issue of Politologija</em></h4> <p lang="en-US"><em>Guest-edited by</em></p> <p lang="en-US"><strong>Violeta Davoliūtė<br /></strong>Vilnius University</p> <p lang="en-US"><strong>Thomas Cauvin<br /></strong>University of Luxembourg</p> <p lang="en-US"><strong>Dovilė Budrytė<br /></strong>Georgia Gwinnett College</p>
2024-02-08T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 Violeta Davoliūtė | Thomas Cauvin | Dovilė Budrytė (Author)https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/34283Who should Issue a Permit for the Memorial? Administrative Law as a Platform for the Conflict over the Construction of the Monument to the Victims of the Smoleńsk Tragedy in Warsaw2024-03-04T12:50:10+00:00Piotr Eckhardt
<p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Circles associated with the ruling Law and Justice party decided to build a monument to the victims of the crash of a Polish government airplane in Smoleńsk on April 10, 2010 in Piłsudski Square in Warsaw. However, the authorities of that city, associated with the political opposition, were not positive about the project. Government bodies instrumentally used (and even abused) existing institutions of administrative law to build the monument despite the opposition of the local self-government. First, control over Piłsudski Square was taken away from the city authorities. Then the square was declared a closed area of military importance so that the city authorities could not make it difficult to obtain permission to build the monument. Finally, the Polish parliament created special legislation to make it more difficult to remove the monument in the future.</span></p>
2023-12-28T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Piotr Eckhardt (Author)https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/34281Digging up Old Stories: How the Soviet Myths of Allied Intervention into the Russian North in 1918–1919 are used in the Context of Russia’s War in Ukraine. The Case of Mudyug Concentration Camp Museum2024-03-04T12:50:10+00:00Natalia Golysheva
<p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The mythology of the foreign interference into the Russian civil war goes to the heart of the memory politics in Putin’s Russia today, most recently in connection with the invasion in Ukraine. In a bid to unite the country against perceived threats from the NATO alliance, the Russian leadership engages Soviet narratives going back to the Allied intervention into North Russia in 1918–1920, as a deterrent against association with the West. During Soviet times multiple memorials were created in the North to the victims of intervention in support of this narrative. Central to it was the Mudyug ‘concentration camp’ museum, established to demonstrate the atrocities of the intervention forces. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union this museum was branded as propaganda and eventually got decommissioned. Yet after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and subsequent war with Ukraine, the old intervention narratives saw a comeback. Backed by the state, the local memory activists in Arkhangelsk in North Russia took to restoring the Mudyug camp museum as a forepost of patriotic tourism in the region. </span></p>
2024-02-14T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 Natalia Golysheva (Author)https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/33726Editorial Board and Table of Contents2023-11-29T07:11:44+00:00Justinas Dementavičius
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2023-11-29T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Authorshttps://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/33151Memory Politics on Screen: The Aesthetics of Historical Trauma in Izaokas (Isaac) (2019)2024-03-05T07:35:33+00:00Gabrielė Norkūnaitė
<p class="Newparagraph" style="text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">This article analyses the Lithuanian feature film Izaokas (Isaac, 2018) as an expression of memory activism. The film actualised heated debates on a national level over the role of ordinary Lithuanians in the Holocaust and collaboration with Nazi Germany, in spite of the fact that the filmmakers did not intend to engage in historical debates. Nonetheless, by generating an immersive experience and engaging viewers at the level of affect, the film effectively engages in polemics with public narratives of the Second World War.</span></p>
2023-12-28T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Gabrielė Norkūnaitė (Author)https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/29910Conceptual Issues of National Security Policy-Making Under Uncertainty2023-09-08T09:49:39+00:00Olga ReznikovaVolodymyr Smolianiuk
<p>The article examines the nature of the uncertainty impact on the formation and implementation of national security policy. The multiplication of uncertainties and complication of the system of social relations prompt a transformation of conceptual approaches to the identification of the national security basic features and the organization of key processes in this area. It has been proven that the development of the concepts of uncertainty and resilience prompts a reconceptualization of the national security. This process is currently taking place. The implementation of new approaches to ensuring national security contributed to the initiation of a paradigm shift in national security policy. Management of uncertainty allows for reducing its influence on national security policy-making. The development of science and increasing the level of public trust in scientific information, which is taken as a basis for shaping political decisions, are of great importance for this.</p>
2023-09-08T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Olga Reznikova | Volodymyr Smolianiuk (Author)https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/30879Underdeveloped development cooperation. Lithuanian case2023-10-03T07:11:56+00:00Giedrė Ivinskienė
<p>This article strives to reveal the reasons hindering smooth implementation of Lithuania’s development cooperation policy. Although Lithuania is less than 8 years away from the target of official development assistance at least 0.33% of Gross National Income (GNI) per year, it is currently contributing only about one-third of this amount, which naturally raises the question “Why?”. Theoretical framework of the motivations behind development cooperation enforcement, specifically, Europeanisation theory, is chosen to support the research. Bearing in mind the scarcity of the academic body of work for this topic, the main instrument, questionnaire for the in-depth interviews with the main decision makers of Lithuania’s development cooperation was created. 17 semi-structured interviews with experts from various backgrounds provided the valuable material for this analysis and helped to provide possible answers to the matter in question.</p>
2023-10-03T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Giedrė Ivinskienė (Author)