Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. First, we present the 14...

Proponemos un enfoque de sistemas mundiales para el debate actual sobre el fracaso europeo en el cumplimiento de los criterios de Lisboa para la equiparación con Estados Unidos en 2010. Mientras que la funesta realización de Europa se documenta en otros artículos, la perspectiva de sistema...

This article portrays a bleak picture of European realities. Analyzing world social, gender, ecological and economic development on the basis of the main 9 predictors, compatible with the majority of the more than 240 published studies on the cross-national determinants of the “human...

In this paper, we draw some optimistic, socio-liberal conclusions about Islam in the world system. Countering some alarmist voices in the West, neither migration nor Muslim culture are to be blamed for the contemporary crisis, but the very nature of unequal capitalist accumulation and dependency...

The European Union’s center-piece of economic policy making is the Lisbon process, which tries to make Europe the most competitive economic region in the world economy by 2010. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso recently presented a Centre for European Reform (CER) study that...

Our rigorous quantitative results, based on the first systematic use of the Muslim community data contained in the "European Social Survey" (ESS), compatible with much of the rest of current European political economic thinking regarding the future alternatives for the European Union, and...

One of the most famous pieces of Latin American scholarship, the article Sunkel, Osvaldo 1973 “Transnational capitalism and national disintegration in Latin America.” Social and. Economic Studies 22 (1): 156–171, published originally in 1969 and having appeared in many translations and...

This book is a welcome and timely endeavor to the study of Globalization, which as we know is the currency of contemporary economic and political debates. It is very broad in scope and its more than 40 pages of references provides the most complete survey for research and information on this...

The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented in the issue 6 of this journal (Tausch, 2005) and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of "unequal transfer" and their...