Health promotion is inherently political. Not only is it largely funded by government, but the very nature of the enterprise requires shifts in power. Political theory has much to contribute to an understanding of the politics of health promotion. In this paper three key political theories are explained and their insights for health promotion explored. They are then applied to the development o...

This paper analyzes changing higher education policies in Poland in the last two decades. It argues that top Polish public universities became divided, with different individual academic and institutional trajectories in the academic fields in which educational expansion occurred (social sciences) and in fields in which it was much less pronounced (natural sciences). Using the concepts drawn fr...

The emergence of nuclear weapons as a new actor in international relations has introduced a new area in the international security arena. Since the appearance of these weapons, there have been increasing efforts to limit and destroy them in order to achieve global peace in the framework of disarmament and centered around the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Along with the eme...