Product Description: This volume is a systematic, quantitative study about the determinants of world development from 1960 onwards, using advanced statistical techniques and data from up to 171 countries and territories. The crisis of world socialism has made it necessary to rethink anew the foundations of development theory...read more

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Product Description: Contents: Theory of world income; The structure of global money; Unequal exchange: world tables of unequal exchange 1995; Unequal exchange: world tables 1965 and world trend 1865-1965-1995; Global Keynesianism and beyond; A simulation of global exploitation; Theory of isomorphism, productivity and growth; Surplus value and transfer value; Unemployment (centre) and unequal exchange (centre-periphery); Global utopia, green and red; The Development Marathon, 1960--2000; Migration and unequal exchange; Towards a sustainable EU-accession policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The U.N. CEPAL/ECLAC data referred to in this study neatly demonstrate that these epochs of globalization in the Nineteenth Century and after 1973 shifted incomes relatively away from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Japan and in favor of the United States and the "dominions", while the era of regulation after 1945 clearly re-allocated relative incomes to the West Europeans, to the East Europeans, and the Japanese...read more

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Product Description: This book systematically evaluates the freely available data, contained in international open sources, such as the European Social Survey, on the problems of Islam, migration, the shadow economy, internal security, and social policy in Europe in the framework of international trends...read more

Product Description: 'Volume I. Elites and Concepts' analyses the presidential doctrines and the ideology of the conservative right in respect to the Middle East, as well as the sources of influences on foreign policy and elites. Answers are given to the following questions: How did America's image abroad shape or preclude Bush's actions? How have US policies towards the Middle East developed since the Truman era?  What were the Bush Doctrine and the US National Strategy all about? How can we identify Bush's Middle East vision through the eyes of the conservative right? Who sets Middle East foreign policy and under which influences? What are the decision-making structures and which pattern do they follow...read more