new world system perspective publications from Poland

Dear colleagues,

please find the following informations about recent world system perspective
books printed in Poland in January 2002

Kind regards

Arno Tausch, Assoc. Visiting Professor, Dep. of Pol. Science, Innsbruck
University

The Polish Institute of International Affairs

PISM

<http://www.pism.pl/>

Series: Collections
Edited by Ryszard Stemplowski


Transnational Terrorism in the World System Perspective

Edited by Ryszard Stemplowski
ISBN 83-915767-4-4
Contents
Invitation to Debate on the Transnational Terrorism in the World System
Perspective 
From the Editor (p. 7)

Albert J. Bergesen, Omar A. Lizardo
Terrorism and World-System Theory (p. 9)
Georgi M. Derluguian
Terrorism, the Weapon of the Organizationally Weak (p. 23)
Robert A. Denemark
Terrorism in the World System: Hypotheses for Core and Periphery (p. 47)
Carlos Escudé
When Security Reigns Supreme: The Postmodern World-System vis a vis 
Globalized Terrorism and Organized Crime (p. 69)
Jonathan Fox
Religion and Terrorism in the World System (p. 97)
Slawomir Debski, Jacek Foks, Beata Górka-Winter
Globalisation and Terrorism (p. 121)
Bartosz Bolechów
Terrorism as the Factor Destabilising International Community (p. 131)
Anatoly L. Adamishin
Is It Possible to Rescue Our Civilization? (p. 157)
Walter Laqueur
Reflections about Terrorism, Old and New (p. 167)
Contributors about themselves (p. 183)


The European Union in the World System Perspective

Edited by Ryszard Stemplowski
ISBN 83-915767-3-6
Contents
Invitation to Debate on the European Union in the World System Perspective
From the Editor (p. 7)
Hans-Heinrich Nolte
The European Union within the Modern World-System (p. 9)
Arno Tausch
The European Union and the World-System (p. 45)
Carlos Escudé
The European Union and Global Security 
in the Postmodern World-System (p. 95)
Gernot Köhler
European Unemployment as a World-System Problem (p. 121)
Ewa Maziarz and Anna Pochylczuk
The European Union and Globalising Forces (p. 133)
Aleksander Müller
The European Integration as a Response and an Initiative (p. 153)
Joseph E. Bigio
Taking the Sting Out of Globalization for Europe (p. 175)
Contributors about themselves (p. 195)

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