Learning from Dependency and World System Theory: Explaining Europe's Failure in the 'Lisbon Process' Arno Tausch and Alma
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Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in The
IZA DP No. 4779 Learning from Latin America’s Experience: Europe’s Failure in the “Lisbon Process” Arno Tausch Almas Heshmati February 2010 DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor Learning from Latin America’s Experience: Europe’s Failure in the “Lisbon Process” Arno Tausch Innsbruck University Almas Heshmati Seoul National University and IZA Discussion Paper No. 4779 February 2010 IZA P.O. Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone: +49-228-3894-0 Fax: +49-228-3894-180 E-mail: [email protected] Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. -
Globalization As a Driver Or Bottleneck for Sustainable Development
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2013, 1(2), 147–155 International Journal of Health Policy and Management Kerman University of Medical Sciences Journal homepage: http://ijhpm.com Original Article Globalization as a Driver or Bottleneck for Sustainable Development: Some Empirical, Cross-National Reflections on Basic Issues of International Health Policy and Management Arno Tausch1,2,* 1Department of Political Science, Innsbruck University, Innsbruck, Austria 2Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article History: Background: This article looks at the long-term, structural determinants of environmental and public health performance in the world system. Received: 28 June 2013 Methods: In multiple standard ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models, we tested the effects of Accepted: 15 July 2013 26 standard predictor variables, including the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labour and services, on ePublished: 18 July 2013 the following indicators of sustainable development and public health: avoiding net trade of ecological footprint global hectare (gha) per person; avoiding high carbon emissions per million US dollars GDP; Keywords: avoiding high CO2 per capita (gha/cap); avoiding high ecological footprint per capita; avoiding becoming International Relations victim of natural disasters; a good performance on the Environmental Performance Index (EPI); a good International Political Economy performance on the Happy Life Years (HLYs) scale; and a good performance on the Happy Planet Index International Migration (HPI). Results: Our research showed that the apprehensions of quantitative research, critical of neo-liberal globalization, are fully vindicated by the significant negative environmental and public health effects of the foreign savings rate. -
The Evidence from World Values Survey Data
Munich Personal RePEc Archive The return of religious Antisemitism? The evidence from World Values Survey data Tausch, Arno Innsbruck University and Corvinus University 17 November 2018 Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/90093/ MPRA Paper No. 90093, posted 18 Nov 2018 03:28 UTC The return of religious Antisemitism? The evidence from World Values Survey data Arno Tausch Abstract 1) Background: This paper addresses the return of religious Antisemitism by a multivariate analysis of global opinion data from 28 countries. 2) Methods: For the lack of any available alternative we used the World Values Survey (WVS) Antisemitism study item: rejection of Jewish neighbors. It is closely correlated with the recent ADL-100 Index of Antisemitism for more than 100 countries. To test the combined effects of religion and background variables like gender, age, education, income and life satisfaction on Antisemitism, we applied the full range of multivariate analysis including promax factor analysis and multiple OLS regression. 3) Results: Although religion as such still seems to be connected with the phenomenon of Antisemitism, intervening variables such as restrictive attitudes on gender and the religion-state relationship play an important role. Western Evangelical and Oriental Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism are performing badly on this account, and there is also a clear global North-South divide for these phenomena. 4) Conclusions: Challenging patriarchic gender ideologies and fundamentalist conceptions of the relationship between religion and state, which are important drivers of Antisemitism, will be an important task in the future. Multiculturalism must be aware of prejudice, patriarchy and religious fundamentalism in the global South. -
An Examination of Factors That Shape Country Presence on Twitter
International Journal of Communication 10(2016), 1860–1877 1932–8036/20160005 Which Countries Does the World Talk About? An Examination of Factors That Shape Country Presence on Twitter H. DENIS WU JACOB GROSHEK MICHAEL G. ELASMAR Boston University, USA This study investigates which countries were mentioned most on Twitter during 2013 and what factors—country attributes, communication and economic resources, and contexts—can explain country presence on Twitter. Tweet mentions from 210 countries were derived using full fire hose archival searches. We identify trends that differ from the patterns found in news flow literature. And the results suggest a new era of international communication via Web-based social networks. Although core and semiperiphery countries are mentioned more than periphery countries, mobile phone penetration and sociopolitical instability have reshaped the contours of country images, and only 28% of the 50 most-mentioned countries on Twitter were core countries. This study discusses the implications of evolving social media for traditional news media outlets, world politics, and international relations. Keywords: Twitter, predictor of tweets, world system theory, mobile phone, country size, sociopolitical instability, news flow Information about the world matters to people of the world. The extent to which a country is covered in the media—traditional or social—is extremely important on several dimensions. In the 20th century, communication scholars and policy makers focused on valence and volume of news about each part of the world on the traditional media (MacBride, 1980). Representation of countries in the media is pivotal to how the world is understood as well as to the external recognition and self-identity of a country within the world system (Masmoudi, 1979). -
Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua: Explaining Economic Success Levels
University of Central Florida STARS HIM 1990-2015 2013 Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua: explaining economic success levels Kevin Negy University of Central Florida Part of the Political Science Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015 University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIM 1990-2015 by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Negy, Kevin, "Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua: explaining economic success levels" (2013). HIM 1990-2015. 1442. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/honorstheses1990-2015/1442 COSTA RICA, PANAMA, AND NICARAGUA: EXPLAINING ECONOMIC SUCCESS LEVELS by KEVIN NEGY A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Honors in the Major Program in International and Global Studies in the College of Sciences and in The Burnett Honors College at the University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida Spring Term 2013 Thesis Chair: Dr. Houman Sadri © 2013 Kevin Negy ii Abstract Latin America is a region that has deep roots in Spanish colonialism. Since its independence, many countries in the region have heavily depended on agriculture exports to industrialized states to support their economies. This has led to political theorists to label Latin America as an area full of “periphery” countries that are exploited for resources by “core countries. Costa Rica, Panama, and Nicaragua were not the exception. In recent years, however, a noticeable difference between the economies of the countries has helped Costa Rica and Panama become more successful than Nicaragua, on the basis of GDP, GNI, and other similar measures. -
Comparison of the Roles of Neighboring Countries in the Foreign Trade of the USA, Germany and Turkey
Comparison of the Roles of Neighboring Countries in the Foreign Trade of the USA, Germany and Turkey Mustafa A. Sancar July 20, 2010 Contents: Introduction ..................................................................................................... 4 USA’s Foreign Trade with her Neighbors and NAFTA’s place in it .......................................................................................... 6 Germany’s Foreign Trade with her Neighbors and EU’s place in it ................................................................................................. 8 Turkey’s Strategy for Developing Foreign Trade with Neighbor Countries and Evolution of Her Performance Since the Year 2000 ........................................................................................ 12 A comparison of all three countries’ foreign trade with their neighbors ....................................................................................... 21 Closing Remarks ............................................................................................ 23 Resources ....................................................................................................... 24 Comparison of the Roles of Neighboring Countries in the Foreign Trade of the USA, Germany and Turkey 3 Introduction: “World trade reached 10 trillion dollars by 2005, which had grown 30 fold ac- cording to 30 years back and 5 fold according to 20 years back”1 says Ali Boğa. This number reached 12.5 trillion dollars by 2009 after decreasing %10.72 ac- cording to the prior -
The Failure of the EU in the Global “Lisbon Process” : a Cross-National, Quantitative Tribute to the Relevance of the Economic Theories of Professor Panayotopoulos
European Research Studies, Volume XI, Issue (3) 2008 The Failure of the EU in the Global “Lisbon Process” : A Cross-national, Quantitative Tribute to the Relevance of the Economic Theories of Professor Panayotopoulos By Arno Tausch 1 Abstract In this paper we analyze the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from a long-term, structural perspective. It again turns out that first of all things get worse, before they get better – the old wisdom of classical development economics (Kuznets) and political science modernization theory of the postwar period. In addition, it emerges that foreign savings, “economic freedom”, low comparative international price levels, and World Bank type pension reforms are not compatible with a solid and long- run development path, based on our knowledge of 17 component variables, integrating the dimensions growth, environment, human rights, basic human needs satisfaction, and gender equality. In addition, European Union membership (EU-15, “old Europe”) has the numerically highest negative effect on the global Lisbon process; while Muslim population shares in no way bloc the development process, on the contrary. Neo-liberal globalization strategies are condemned to failure; while European decision makers in particular would be strongly advised to re-think their Lisbon strategy, which pushes countries towards accepting strategies, which, inter alia, lower instead of increase the comparative international price level. Is a price level of say, the Congo’s dimension, really the aim of the Lisbon process? Balassa and Samuelson assumed that rising international price levels for the periphery country are a precondition of positive development. Falling relative price levels would suggest in the neo-classical argument that the price of the non- tradables in the European economy decreased dramatically over time. -
Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: the Case of Turkey
A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas Working Paper Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey IZA Discussion Papers, No. 8163 Provided in Cooperation with: IZA – Institute of Labor Economics Suggested Citation: Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas (2014) : Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey, IZA Discussion Papers, No. 8163, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/98969 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle You are not to copy documents for public or commercial Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, If the documents have been made available under an Open gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. www.econstor.eu IZA DP No. -
Muslim-Majority Countries: the Evidence from International Comparative Survey Data
Muslim Integration or Alienation in Non- Muslim-Majority Countries: The Evidence from International Comparative Survey Data Arno Tausch INTRODUCTION This article tries to evaluateMuslim integration or Muslim alienation—if such a thing exists—in non-Muslim-majority countries by rigorous quantitative analysis of existing open and freely accessible international opinion-survey data in a comparative perspective. Such investigations, based on the European Social Survey and other opinion data on the issues under scrutiny here, are not new and have been attempted in the past.1 We are interested in how much Muslim communities in non-Muslim- majority countries, especially in Western democracies, are living above or below the poverty line, whether they trust democracy, the legal system, the parliament, the police, and so on. Of course, international political decision-makers are free to draw their conclusions from our results, which are a continuation of such investigations since the availability of the European Social Survey data in 2002.2 In our context, such questions are primarily aimed at assessing political stability. If citizens trust democracy, the legal system, the parliament, and the police, there is less dissatisfaction and likelihood of various kinds of rebellion. While the debate about “Islam” in the West is now endless, it is surprising that hard-core comparable data are rather scarce. But going back as far as Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, and the writings of the founding generation of quantitative social science in the 1930s, social science—even in times of heated political debate—must be able to come up with concrete and reliable information on the when, who, what, where, why, 55 Jewish Political Studies Review and how of phenomena.3 Hence we are not interested in the question, however much we might sympathize with or reject a positive answer, of whether “Islam” “belongs” to Europe, America, or Israel. -
Support for Terrorism in Muslim Majority Countries and Implications for Immigration Policies in the West
Support for Terrorism in Muslim Majority Countries and Implications for Immigration Policies in the West Russell A. Berman and Arno Tausch The Wind of Change across Europe With elections in 2017 in key European Union states (France: presidential, April 23, second round May 7, National Assembly, June 11, second round June 18; Germany: Federal Diet, September 24; Netherlands: Second Chamber, March 15),1 an intensified debate about migration to Europe and Middle East terrorism – its origins, trajectories, dangers, and the extent of its mass support – is highly likely. Marine Le Pen, leader of the far right Front National in France, predicted that European elections in 2017 will bring a wind of change across the region.2 With the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s US presidential victory, far right political parties throughout Europe are now capitalizing on Euroscepticism and anxieties about migration.3 German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have responded to Le Pen’s challenge by defending her own refugee policy as an act of moral and legal obligation by a “state of laws,” while asserting that Europeans must stand by the principle of offering asylum to all those fleeing war and oppression.4 The fact that the Berlin terrorist Amis Amri was shot in Milan, Italy, after crossing several European borders following his attack in the heart of Germany, where he had previously applied for asylum, further fuels the controversy about the alleged failures of existing European refugee, immigration, and security policies.5 Prof. Russell A. Berman, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. -
Violent Extremism in Africa Citizen Perspectives from the Sahel Epicenter and Periphery
Violent extremism in Africa Citizen perspectives from the Sahel epicenter and periphery By Stephen Buchanan-Clarke and Sibusiso Nkomo Afrobarometer Policy Paper No. 74 | July 2021 Introduction The Sahel1 is one of Africa’s most fragile regions and suffers from multiple longstanding and overlapping challenges, including entrenched poverty, underdevelopment, climate risks, and food insecurity. These chronic vulnerabilities have been exacerbated in recent years by the spread of a byzantine network of extremist and armed groups that have instrumentalized simmering local grievances and inter-community tensions to spread across the region’s porous borders. The fall of the Libyan regime in 2011 and the 2012 Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali were the genesis of ongoing instability in the region. Over the past decade, extremist and armed groups have continued to both entrench themselves in northern Mali and expand their operational footprint into Burkina Faso and Niger.2 Collectively, these three countries now constitute the core of the Sahel crisis (Cooke, Sanderson, Johnson, & Hubner, 2016). A variety of bilateral and multilateral military operations in Mali and across the wider Sahel region have been unsuccessful in stemming the violence, and since 2015, the number of terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger has risen year on year (ACLED, 2019). The deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger has generated increasing concern among bordering West African states about the possibility of further regional spillover of conflict into their respective territories (United Nations, 2020a). This paper looks at the impact that violent extremist activity has had on citizens in the Sahel epicenter countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger as well as the periphery countries of Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, the Gambia, and Togo. -
Post-Islamism in Tunisia and Egypt: Contradictory Trajectories
religions Article Post-Islamism in Tunisia and Egypt: Contradictory Trajectories Houssem Ben Lazreg Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada; [email protected] Abstract: In the wake of the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi distanced his party from the main Islamist paradigm, which is spearheaded primarily by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and announced the separation of the religious movement entirely from its political wing (al-Siyasi and al-da’awi). In addition to reassuring Tunisians that Ennahda’s socio- political project is rooted in its “Tunisianity,” these measures aimed at signaling Ennahda’s joining the camp of post-Islamist parties and Muslim democrats such as the AKP in Turkey and the JDP in Morocco. In this article, using the comparative case studies, I examine the patterns, similarities, and differences between the Tunisian Ennahda party and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in terms of their evolutions from an Islamist to a post-Islamist discourse and identity. I argue that the Ennahda party outpaced the Muslim Brotherhood in that shift considering the local/regional realities and the new compromises dictated by the post-revolutionary political processes in both countries. Although the Muslim Brotherhood managed to come to power and govern for only one year before being deposed by the army, Ennahda’s political pragmatism (consensus, compromise, and coalition) enabled it to fare well, ultimately prodding the party to adapt and reposition itself intellectually and politically. Keywords: Ennahda party; Islamism; Muslim brotherhood; post-Islamism; political Islam; Rached Citation: Ben Lazreg, Houssem. Ghannouchi 2021.