New issue of the Czech Journal of Political Science (3/2011) features the English study „The Unclear Border between Internal and External Security in the European Union: Impact of the Lisabon Treaty" by Tomáš Weiss. The section of articles comprises the text „The Term Crisis in the Political Sphere: An Attempt Towards Conceptualisation" by Juraj Laššuth; the text „Institutions as the Key to EU Communication Policy?" by Michaela Kozlová and Petr Kaniok; or the article „The European Commission Register of Interest Representatives: Expectation and Reality" by Markéta Pitrová and Veronika Zatloukalová. In the section of Materials you can find the text by Pavla Dočekalová „Efforts Towards Settlement of the Transdniestrian Conflict: The Role and Activities of the OSCE". As usual, you can find reviews of three selected books in the issue.

New issue of the Czech Journal of Political Science (2/2011) features a study by Lukas Linka and Tomas Lacina "What Influences the Unity of the Czech Parliamentary Party Groups?". The section of articles comprises the English text "Territorial and Participatory Aspects of the Development of Local Democracy in Slovenia"; the text by Milos Brunclik "Cause of the Rise of Radical Right-wing Populism in Sweden"; the text "Consolidation of left in the Czech Party System: International Relations or Processes" by Miroslav Mares.

The Czech Journal of Political Science (1/2011) features a study by Petr Kratochvíl and Ondřej Šimon "The EU as an Actor: The Study of Recognition as a Dimension of EU Actorness". The section of articles comprises the English text on the Czech organized crime written by Tomáš Šmíd and Petr Kupka "Czech Organized Crime: Structural Development and Activities of Czech Organized Crime", text written by Jakub Charvát named "The Electoral Bonus Mechanism and Greek Variant of Electoral Reform in View of Results of Elections to the Czech Chamber of Deputies", and the paper on "The CDU/CSU Approach Towards EU Enlargement: Do the CDU/CSU Form One Entity in the European Parliament?" by Michal Vít and Petr Kaniok. The article "Trends in the Development of Public Diplomacy in Today's Foreign Policy" by Lukáš Novotný is available in the section of materials.

Czech Journal of Political Science is a scholarly quarterly journal and the first reviewed political science periodical issued in the Czech Republic. The first issue of the journal was published in 1994. The journal is a representative platform for presentation of the outcomes of the original political science research and thus significantly contributes to the constitution of political science as a scholarly discipline and to its establishment among other social sciences. The journal features studies, articles, review essays, discussions, reviews and information on the events within the political science. The texts may be submitted in the Czech, Slovak or English language. The topics comprise the areas of political philosophy and theory, comparative political science, political sociology, policy analysis, European studies, international relations and security studies. The texts offered to the Czech Journal of Political Science undergo the peer-review procedure. ISSN 1211-3247

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Editorial Board: Petr Kaniok (Editor-in-Chief), Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University; Vlastimil Havlík (Managing Editor), Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University; Pavel Barša, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague; Ladislav Cabada, Metropolitan University in Prague; Ondřej Císař, Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University; Michal Kubát, Faculty of Social Science, Charles University in Prague; Pavel Marek, Philosophical Faculty of UP in Olomouc; Miroslav Mareš, Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University; Miroslav Novák, Faculty of Social Science, Charles University in Prague; Markéta Pitrová, Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University; Mojmír Povolný, Lawrence University Appleton in the USA; Maxmilián Strmiska, Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University; Vojtěch Šimíček, Supreme Administrative Court in Brno.

Editorial Advisory Board: László Bruszt, European University Institute; Břetislav Dančák, Masaryk University; Dejan Djokič, University of Nottingham; Petr Fiala, Masaryk University; Tomáš Kostelecký, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic; Jacques Rupnik, CERI - Sciences Politiques; Klaus Schubert, Universität Munster; Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University.

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