Contents // Why Beyond Globalisation?...5 // Tadeusz Siwek, Monika Šumberová // A ‘crisis’, but of what?...11 // Noel Casiree // Driving Forces of Globalisation...25 // Irina Maltová // The end or a new quality of the third wave of globalisation?...35 // Roman Szul // Globalisation and integrating F.uropean societies: the multicultural versus liberal concept...43 // Wojciech Janicki // Language Death versus Language Survival: A Global Perspective...51 // Miroslav Černý // The Manifestation of Globalisation in Native Communities in Mexico...59 // Radoslav Hlášek // Assyrian Ethnic Identity in a Globalizing World...67 // Artur Boháč // The Chameleon’s Jinking. The Druze Political Adaptation in Lebanon...73 // Michaela Pokrupová // Ivory Coast - From Stability to Collapse. Failed States in Time of Globalisation...81 // Robert Ištok, Tomáš Koziak // The Present Geopolitical and Geoeconomic Situation in Russia...89 // Oľga Slobodníková, Vladimir Baar // Russian Geopolitical Perceptions and Imaginations of the South Caucasus...99 // Vincenc Kopeček // CARICOM do integrative efforts of small states make sense?...107 // Olga Gubová // Income disparities and poverty in the European Union member states...115 // Ireneusz Jazwiňski // Work or consumption indicators of one’s place in the society...123 // Urszula Swadzba // Globalisation, vulnerability, poverty and human limits...131 // Květa Princová // The Limits of Humanitarian Aid and Development Cooperation in
War-tom Separatist Regions (A Case Study of // Abkhazia)...139 // Tomáš Hoch // Transnational Development Agency of Migrants: Problematic Aspects of Research on Remittances...147 // Jana Hasalová // Globalised Aestheticisation of Urban Decay...155 // Petr Gibas // Virtual image of traditional Silesian enterprises as an effect of globalisation process...163 // Malgorzata Suchacka // Local Culture in the Era of Globalisation: Focused on the Zlín Region...169 // Lívia Pekajová. Jiří Novosák // Development of the Metropolis of Upper Silesia as the result of globalisation processes in the opinion of its // inhabitants a theoretical and empirical view...177 // Robert Рука // Regional Products as the Expression of Preservation of Regional Individuality in the EU...189 // Krystyna Magda-Zabinska