Acknowledgements // PREFACE - Tadeusz Siwek // POLITICAL SECTION // Purhepechan Social Movements and the forging of the purhepechan national consciousness, Some General Observations - Přemysl Mácha // Attempt at a classification of unrepresented nations and peoples - Marek Sobczynski // Global changes in energy localization with implications for the European region - Milan Vošta // The Era of Globalization and the Socio-political Impacts of SMS in Iran - Mojtaba Maghsoodi // Ethiopian federalism and the question of the self-determination of nations - Jan Záhořík, Alemayehu Kumsa // The Electoral Space of Poland Political, Historical, Social and Cultural Conditions - Marek Barwiński // Anti-geo-politics as an instrument of Islamistic resistance - Tomáš Drobík // Self-declared States in the Globalising World: The Case of The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic - Vincenc Kopeček // Impacts of Globalization in the Context of Slovakia - Irina Mattová // ECONOMIC SECTION // A Rural, Southern County in Transition: Positive and Negative Effects of Increasing Globalization - William R. Stanley, Carol A. Williams // City and Culture tourism and its expected trends in the 21st Century - Ema Mišúnová // European Milk Production Through the Perspective of Globalization - Daniel Ricard, Kateřina Sidiropulu Janků // Special Economic Zones in Poland as a Part of Globalization Processes - Waldemar Cudny // The impact of tourism on local identities. A case study in Islamic countries: Tunisia, United Arab Emirates (Dubai) - Anna Dłlużewska // Impacts of globalization in the automotive industry on multinational corporation - Juraj Mišún // International migration and development in the age of globalization - Robert Stojanov // The impact of globalization on socio-demographic changes in the internal structures of the City of Ostrava after 1989 - Stanislav Martinát, Petr Klusáček, Eva Nováková //
Regional policy and cross-border co-operation as an element of European integration - Krystyna Magda Żabińska // European Competitiveness - Lucia Rysová, Peter Čajka // Research and Development Policy in the Czech Republic: A Regional Dimension? - Marie Macešková, Pavla Žížalová // Globalization and antiglobalization: The case of the city of Walbrzych (Poland) - Marek J. Battek, Joanna Szczepankiewicz-Battek // The Role of Localities in a Globalizing Society: the Example of the Third Metropolitan Centre Banská Bystrica Zvolen - Oľga Slobodníková // CULTURAL SECTION // Globalization and language diversity - Vladimír Baar // Globalization and ethno-linguistic revivalism in contemporary Iran: the case of Azeris (Azerbaijanis) - Ali Karimi // Changes on the ethnic-religious map of Poland after the post-war border shifts (on the example of the so-called Western Territories) - Andrzej Rykała // Lakota Language Revitalization: Past, Present, and Future Prospects - Miroslav Černý // Demography in the Age of Globalization - Tadeusz Siwek // Languages, Nations and States in the time of globalisation - Roman Szul // Culture, Globalisation and the Ontology of Localness - Carl Humphries // ENVIRONMENTAL SECTION // Geopolitical Contexts of Issues Connected with Water Resources - Robert Ištok, Tomáš Koziak // Limited Reserves of Drinking Water and Questions of Environmental Security - Peter Terem // The Effects of the globalization process and how it has caused environmental problems in Romania - Marius-Cristian Neacsu, Gabriela Popoviciu // LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS // LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES