The Austrian social scientist Arno Tausch, back in 1998, already foresaw the present waning of the 'European social model' in his freely available electronic publication at the World Systems Archive at the University of Colorado (now at the University of California, Riverside). Table of...

The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...

The policy approach, that is at the basis of this study, realistically assumes that the following determinants will be of the utmost importance for the success or failure of the project of European integration and European unity: (i) Europe is characterised by the typical 'mix' of countries that...