Development, Globalization, Global Values, and Security

This book, written in honor of Arno Tausch, presents cutting-edge research on globalization, development, and global values. Internationally renowned authors cover topics such as global economic and political cycles, global values, and support for terrorism. Over the last five decades, the Austrian political scientist Arno Tausch was a pioneer in studies on globalization, development and global values. This collection of essays takes up the issues dealt with by Tausch and presents perspectives for the 21st Century. Throughout his work, Tausch applied quantitative methods to study the fundamental issues of the global political economy and the global political system, like dependency, economic and political cycles, and global values, based on a rigorous study of available social scientific data, like the World Values Survey and the Arab Barometer.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Development.- Chapter 2. Development Theory: The Social-Liberal Approach.- Chapter 3. Analysing Inequality, Dependence, and Poverty in the World System.- Chapter 4. Politics Means Shaping the Shape.- Chapter 5. Multinational Firms and the Pattern and Structure of Foreign Direct Investment.- Part II. Globalization.- Chapter 6. Global Studies Meets World-Systems Theory.- Chapter 7. World-scale Problems and the Policy Response of Multilateral Institutions.- Chapter 8. On the Hidden Pattern in the History of Wars.- Chapter 9. Russia and Germany in the System of Powers.- Part III. Global values.- Chapter 10. Globalization, Islamism and the Persistence of Religion.- Chapter 11. Studies on Global Catholicism.- Chapter 12. Tausch and Political Controversies in Austrian Media: ‘Political Islam’ in the Austrian Debate.- Part IV. Security.- Chapter 13. States of Emergency: In Whose Interest Are They Invoked?.- Chapter 14. Rabin and the Intelligence Services on the Eve of the Oslo Accords.- Chapter 15. Tausch on Terrorism.- Chapter 16. Terror in the 21st Century The Modus Operandi of the Islamic State – What we know and what we can learn from it!.