From Strategic Partnership to Limited Cooperation. Polish-Ukrainian Relations 2015–2019

University and industry: From contracting relations to strategic partnerships; providing strategic role model in university-society relations

Establishing sustainable and effective interactions between university and society has always been a concern for higher education system. However, these interactions have always been challenged for various reasons. The reasons can be attributed to the type of attitudes toward the roles a university plays in interaction with industry, the lack of value-added strategic interactions with industry,...

The Morphosyntax of Polish and Ukrainian -no/-to

This paper provides a detailed description of the Polish and Ukrainian -no/-to + accusative construction, with considerable attention to how the two constructions differ and to their relevance for current morphological and syntactic theory. It is argued that Polish and Ukrainian -no/-to differ with respect to where the word-final /-no/-to/ affix is generated in the narrow syntax. A wide range o...

Limited Partnership Perspective

EU-Ukrainian Relations: Prospects and Possibilities

Over the past several years, Ukraine has frequently affirmed that its foreign policy goal is to join ‘all European and Euro-Atlantic structures with priority given to the European Union’, but it was not until June 1998 that Ukraine officially stated its foreign and security policy goal of integration into the EU. Since this time Ukrainian officials have sought to convince their European counter...

Evolution of vulnerability to pain in interpersonal relations as a strategic trait aiding cooperation

Why are humans so vulnerable to pain in interpersonal relations and can so easily hurt others physically and emotionally? We theoretically examine whether being offensively strong but defensively weak can evolve as a strategic trait that fosters cooperation. We study a population comprised of “thick-skinned” and “thinskinned” agents by using an indirect evolution model that combines rational ch...