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A recent rise in Euro-scepticism in the European Union can be linked to its unequal economic development as a consequence of globalisation. It has manifested itself in increasing support for radical right-wing parties, which is partly based on anti-globalist sentiments. One of the major expressions of this anti-globalist and Eurosceptic views has been "Brexit", the UK's withdrawal from the EU in 2020. Seven years before Brexit, another European country, Croatia, joined the EU. The main aim of this paper is to understand how attitudes towards globalisation differ between UK and Croatian students by analysing and comparing the students' values, beliefs and perceptions regarding globalisation generally and EU integration more specifically. The study was conducted in 2019-2020 and consisted of a questionnaire survey on a sample of n=283 geography students (154 in Croatia and 129 in the UK). The results demonstrate that both Croatian and UK students tend to see globalisation as a positive process (57.6 %) with the largest benefits being an increase in exchange of knowledge and scientific advancements, and growth of economy. While both cohorts agree that the main negative consequences globally are increased economic inequalities and exploitation of workers, several differences in perception of negative consequences of globalisation in their respective countries are also identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in building social capital and human capacity, in terms of knowledge sharing, targeted training and developing education initiatives in higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach – The critical organizational form in the information age is networking. This new organizational principle is manifested through the processes of internationalization and global academic cooperation, which have become inevitable strategies for every higher education institution in order to be competitive in a global education market. The focus of this paper is on such positive practices implemented at Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM). Since its foundation in 2002, a systematic use of new technologies in education has been encouraged, which in turn has provided the basis for major advances in development. Today ZSEM has around 1,400 students and about 150 courses with an integrated e-learning system, while currently 7 per cent of students take part in various types of international exchange. Findings – The effective use of ICT, such as synchronous and asynchronous methods of distance learning, enables higher education institutions to reach out students, teachers and researchers in foreign countries without physically moving them. Besides improving communication and exchange of information followed by opportunities for cross-cultural learning, effective ICT implementation enables expansion of social and economic networks and strengthens institutional and academic ties by thus building social capital. Availability and use of new technologies in education process is closely linked with globalization of education markets and student and professor mobility.Research limitations/implications – The current work has involved one institution utilizing a wide range of courses. Implications are that the approach could be positively transferred and used with other institutions and across countries. Originality/value – This work is one of the few that has examined ICT as a tool from the perspective of its application for building social capital in higher education. The work presented investigates in-depth this provision in a specific institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The modern era, with the concept of supremacy of the neoliberal economy and understanding the role of the state and its institutional forms, has opened space and caused the need for finding new business methods and models, primarily in the area of project financing. As part of the sustainable development contents, the emergence and development of the public-private partnership is based on an effort to improve quality and availability of goods and services without the imposition of the additional taxes and funds for new projects. Furthermore, current trends in the world market, such as liberalization and globalization have impacted directly on the port environment and led to the new models of financing port investments in collaboration with the private sector. The aim of this paper is to elaborate the current situation in the Croatian seaports in terms of financial capacity to fund capital projects and to indicate the need for private sector participation, domestic or foreign origin, in financing the port infrastructure and suprastructure through "healthy" and sustainable projects of the public -- private partnerships. In addition, this paper elaborates the Croatian experience in applying public-private partnerships, as well as the legal framework that supports or limits the influence of private capital in the port sector and previous experience of the private-public partnerships in the port of Rijeka. The sustainability approach of funding through the public-private partnership in the seaports systems is not purpose by itself. The need for more business requires a partner who will be able to meet three key criteria: the achievement of port operation efficiency (economics, profitability) at the global level, price competition against the Northern and Mediterranean ports and the quality of port services at the global level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the authors examine how legal education in Europe and Croatia has changed influenced by EU integration and globalization. They address current changes in high education and particularly in legal education in Croatia in light of The Bologna Reform and clinical legal education as a new and progressive teaching methodology. In the second part of this paper special remarks are given to relation between globalization, Europeanization, regional development and commercial law. The authors examine in what way globalization, Europeanization and regional development have influenced changes in commerical law and vice versa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sociology deals with a great number of social phenomena, which are often inter- and multidisciplinary in nature. The paper discusses the relationship between sociology as a science and its representation in the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) scheme. The author explains some of the issues in classification of documents in the field of sociology and their content complexity and describes the practice in classification adopted by the National and University Library in Zagreb (Croatia). The author illustrates the problem of classification of interdisciplinary subjects with the examples of globalization, violence in mass media, violence in schools, violence in sports etc. In addition, the problem of distinguishing the contents pertaining to sociology from those coming from related disciplines (e.g. social and cultural anthropology, sex and gender studies, feminism and cultural studies) is also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]