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‘Arno Tausch’ Archives

Quantitative World System Studies Contradict Current Islamophobia

World Political Cycles, Global Terrorism, and World Development Arno Tausch* Abstract In this article, 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 [Read More]

What 1.3 Billion Muslims Really Think: An Answer to a Recent Gallup Study, Based on the “World Values Survey”

What 1.3 Billion Muslims Really Think: An Answer to a Recent Gallup Study, Based on the “World Values Survey”

New book, by: Arno Tausch (Innsbruck Univ. Innsbruck, Austria) Book Description: This book is based on the quantitative, multivariate analysis of the World Values Survey data from more than 80 countries around the globe on the political and social values of the [Read More]

The ”Muslim Factor” and the Future of ”Integration Policy” in Europe

Arno Tausch, Christian Bischof and Karl Mueller Department of Political Science, Innsbruck University This paper systematically evaluates the freely available data, contained in the European Social Survey and other international, open sources, on the problems of internal [Read More]

Dar al Islam. The Mediterranean, the world system and the “wider EUrope”

by Peter Herrmann and Arno Tausch (Eds.) With the process of a “wide  Europe” (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi’s “ring of friends”) that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St. Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing rift between Europe and [Read More]

New: BOOK REVIEW: M. Fatih Tayfur Semiperipheral Development and Foreign Policy: The Cases of Greece and Spain

Professor Fatih Tayfur from Middle East Technical University in Ankara published recently a book that should be very much on top of the reading lists of all major European decision makers, and which in a way will be very influential during the negotiations with Turkey. [Read More]

New: Against Islamophobia: Quantitative Analyses of Global Terrorism, World Political Cycles and Center Periphery Structures

In this publication, 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 [Read More]

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Soon in the Bookshops



Hichem Karoui
The Middle East as a US Predicament
The Bush II Years (2000-2008) Volume II: Networks.
Anthem Press, London, 2010

Soon in the Bookshops

Hichem Karoui
The Middle East as a US Predicament
The Bush II Years (2000-2008) Volume I: Elites and Concepts.
Anthem Press, London, 2010

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