Nauki polityczne wobec kwestii UFO/UAP i życia pozaziemskiego

Abstract

POLITICAL SCIENCES IN APPROACH TO THE ISSUE OF UFOs/UAPs AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
For many years political scientists have had little interest in the issues of UFOs, UAPs, and extraterrestrial life, which have been perceived as something unworthy of scientific status and of scientific research; the need of socio-political studies on these issues has been widely questioned, so the taboo around them has been steadily growing. Today the situation is changing quite dramatically – in favor of active political research on the title issues, creating vast opportunities for new scientific formulas, in which political science, as well as IR and security studies, has a major role to play; ultimately many things here on Earth, if not all of them, connected with the issues of UFOs, UAPs and extraterrestrial life are political, and for science – truly paradigm-breaking. The aim of this paper is threefold: 1) to present the vast scientific, science-related and non-scientific (political, intellectual, social) context of considerations on the title issues; 2) to present the premises political scientists actively taking up any threads resulting from the domain of UFO/UAP and ET-related topics, and 3) to indicate already existing lines of research, as well as possible thematic areas, in which representatives of political sciences could fulfill themselves to great effect.