Wizerunek państw stanowi jeden z czynników wpływających na zdolność do osiągania wyznaczonych celów narodowych na scenie międzynarodowej oraz przyczyniających się do ich politycznego, społecznego, ekonomicznego i kulturalnego rozwoju. Obraz republik bałtyckich funkcjonujący wśród studentów Politechniki Gdańskiej ukazuje wyobrażenia o sąsiadach oraz wskazuje na rolę uczelni w procesie jego kreowania.

The problem of poverty and social exclusion in the Baltic States generates serious social, economic and political consequences. The scope of the analysis includes primarily the scale and structure of poverty and social exclusion in the Baltic Region in the years 2004-2010 in the context of the Lisbon Strategy of the European Union. The results show that during the transition and implementation of the Lisbon Strategy, the problem...

Research background: In a rapidly changing economic environment companies deepen their cooperation, which entails in all sectors of the economy. The progressive increase in market concentration, especially in the banking sector, is caused by various reasons. Purpose of the article: The purpose of this article is to compare the tendencies within market structures in few countries which origin from similar political systems and...

• The aim - This article aims to compare the situation in the banking sectors of two regions, which due to their political and economic history have much in common. These are the Western Balkan States of Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia, and the Baltic Sea States of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. • Methods - It presents three approaches to defining banking stability that can be found in the literature and carries out an initial...