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 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...