While there is a never-ending debate on Islamism, Islamist terrorism and the identity of Europe vis-à-vis growing Muslim communities in Europe, there are hardly any solid cross-national data being presented on the real extent of the Islamist threat facing Europe, and on the social conditions...

This book systematically evaluates the freely available data, contained in the European Social Survey and other international, open sources, on the problems of internal security and social policy in Europe for the Muslim and the non-Muslim populations in Europe. It is the attempt to try to...

With the process of a wider 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 America also is about how to deal politically with the countries of the...

The author presents a world systems perspective for the ongoing debate about the European failure to meet the Lisbon criteria of catching up with the US by 2010. While the dismal performance of Europe again is documented in this paper, the world system perspective is relatively novel in the...

This article summarizes research results on a world system perspective on the contemporary crisis. During the 1990s penetration by transnational capital dramatically increased in many parts of Europe (especially in what was described by Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, recently as "the...

It has become a common place to speak of a "social Europe" and an "economically efficient America". In the present volume, Karl Aiginger and Michael Landesmann underline the argument that Europe most probably lost the "Lisbon race" for the pole position in the field of competitiveness and...

Apart from presenting the latest data on poverty, social exclusion etc in Europe, the article shows in a straightforward politometric model that the main deficits of the Austrian neo-liberal transformation 2000-2006 were to be registered in the meagre performance by Austria on the Lisbon...

The publication surveys the major existing evidence from EUROSTAT and UN/World Bank sources and comes to the depressing conclusion that there is practically no real convergence of social conditions in Europe over the last years. Instead, the gaps between East and West, and between South and...

This article first investigates the determination of 14 indicators of development in 109 countries with complete data based on MNC penetration on development in the 1990s and beyond, with such 'new' indicators as 'Islamic culture' or 'adherence to the Washington consensus'. A consequence of the...

One of the most famous pieces of Latin American scholarship, the article Sunkel, Osvaldo 1973 "Transnational capitalism and national disintegration in Latin America." Social and. Economic Studies 22 (1): 156-171, published originally in 1969 and having appeared in many translations and editions...