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please now find the e-mail and fax numbers for the ordering of these new publications The Polish Institute of International Affairs PISM <http://www.pism.pl/> Series: Collections Edited by Ryszard Stemplowski Orders should be placed by e-mail to pism@pism.pl or by fax to Polish Institute for International Affairs ul. Warecka 1a, 00-950 Warszawa Poland (48) 22 - 826 8882 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) The Polish Institute for International Affairs Act 1996 established the Institute to carry on research and provide expertise in international affairs, run courses for public servants, inform the public, co-operate with political, research and/or teaching organisations in Poland and abroad, maintain a library (open to the public), organise conferences, publish books, periodicals and documents on the Polish foreign policy and related matters. The previously existing Institute (namesake, est. 1949) was closed down in 1995. The new Institute is a state entity and a legal person. The funding comes from the Budget, The State Committee for Scientific Research, and private sponsors. The first director, appointed for five years by the Prime Minister, was installed in October 1999. Employs forty individuals (staff of eighty by 2003). The Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs appoints the Institute's Advisory Council, including a representative of the President of the Republic, representatives of the major Parliamentary caucuses, academics, officials. A quarterly publication: "Polski Przeglad Dyplomatyczny" (The Polish Diplomatic Review). Forthcoming periodical publication: "The Polish Foreign Affairs Digest" - English language versions and summaries of pieces published in Polski Przeglad Dyplomatyczny and other sources. The Cabinet shall adopt the Bye-Laws for the Institute. The Prime Minister shall appoint Director of the Institute for five years. The Minister of Foreign Affairs shall supervise the Institute with respect to the aforementioned Act of Parliament. The Council of the Institute, acting as an advisory body, shall include among its members: Specialists in international affairs (appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs), a representative of the President of the Republic, and members representing the Parliamentary Parties in the Sejm (Chamber of Deputies). The funding comes from the Budget, The National Research Fund Committee, and private sponsors. The first Director of the new Institute, Ryszard Stemplowski, LLM, PhD, DHabil. (Hist.), was installed on October 6, 1999. He was senior research fellow of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1973-1990), and served as Chief of the Chancellery (Chief Clerk) of the Chamber of Deputies (1990-1993) and Ambassador to London (1994-1999). Professor, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), since 2001. Excerpt from the Tausch paper: Authors as divergent as Andre Gunder Frank, Giovanni Arrighi and Erich Weede would predict further European relative decline in the global economy. This harsh critique by the growing number of eurosceptics among professional social scientists now precisely is, that the Union, as it is structured, is not the answer to the problems, but the very reason for them. The beginning decade of the 2000's seems to repeat the experience of the 1990s, and 1970s and early 1980s, when the term 'Eurosclerosis' was originally coined: Big government, that has been the political strategy of many European countries over the Kondratieff-B-phase of the late 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s, with a resulting explosion of government intervention into the economy, characterizes the landscape. Big unemployment, big government, big taxes, big divisions in the social fabric, big wage increases for those with secure jobs, while the others wait out in the cold, big expenditures for little real redistribution (in fact, Europe could only prevent that a large percentage of the population falls under the 50% of average income poverty threshold-line, but the percentage of poor people under 14.40 $ per capita and day as well as the percentage of people who die before reaching age 60% are bigger in EU-Europe than in other western democracies), big gender discrimination, big social stagnation, marginalization of elderly women, little attraction for new generations and for new foreign investment, little emphasis on health expenditures - that's the way how neo-liberal and world system critics see the EU-Europe as working: Table : the correlates of years of EU membership on the level of western stable democracies: male long-term unemployment rate 0,71 female long-term unemployment rate 0,69 tax revenue per GDP 0,60 central government expenditures per GDP 0,60 alcohol consumption per capita and year 0,54 young adults as % of total prisoners 0,42 real earnings per employee growth rate 1980-92 0,40 long-term unemployment as % of total labor force 0,38 expenditure on labor market programs as % of GDP 0,32 female unpaid family workers as % of total working population 0,30 female unemployment rate 0,29 prisoners per total population 0,29 % population below 14,40 $ per day 0,28 annual rate of deforestation 0,26 total unemployment rate 0,23 % people expected not to survive age 60 0,23 maternal mortality rate 0,22 unemployment benefits expenditures per GOVEX 0,20 real GDP poorest 20% 0,19 one person households headed by women aged >65 per total households 0,19 private consumption as % of GDP 0,18 trees defoliated, as % of all trees 0,12 male unemployment rate 0,09 budget surplus/deficit per GDP -0,17 real GDP richest 20% -0,19 net foreign direct investment as % of GNP -0,19 public expenditure on education as % of GNP -0,20 female economic activity rate -0,21 GNP growth 1980-95 -0,21 tertiary students per total population -0,22 female tertiary students per 100.000 women -0,25 weekly hours of work in manufacturing -0,29 forest and woodland as % of total area -0,29 female administrators and managers as % of total prof. group -0,30 internal renewable water resources per capita -0,30 women in government as % of total gov. jobs -0,31 female professional and technical workers as % of total prof. group -0,32 gross domestic investment rate -0,34 labor force participation rate -0,37 public expenditure on health as % of total PUBEX -0,43 annual projected population growth rate 1995-2015 -0,51 % population below 50% income poverty line -0,52 public expenditure on education as % of GOVEX -0,53 Western Europe lost in terms of world market shares in a secular trend vis-à-vis the countries of the Pacific; the dynamics of growth in the world economy seem to work to the detriment of the old European centers. Asia's 'basics' are healthier than expected, and the tide turns to the detriment of the Europeans, now that the initial positive effects of European Monetary Union fade away and transnational capital flows again to the Pacific region. This is also the true background to the present weakness of the 'Euro'. With or without the Manhattan bombing, the EURO started above 1.05 US $ in November 1999, and is now at 87 cents, i.e. there was a two-year loss of more than 15%. Table: the EU in the capitalist world system. Relative share in % EU share in top world collective service companies 74,60 EU share in world development aid 56,40 EU share in top world intermediary good companies 55,30 EU share in top world insurance companies 55,00 EU share in top world energy companies 50,20 EU share in OECD total unemployment 47,70 EU share in top world banking companies 45,90 EU share in top world automobile industry 41,60 EU share in top world chemical and pharma companies 40,00 EU share in top world electrical equipment companies 38,30 EU share in top world distribution companies 38,10 EU share in OECD total GDP 36,50 EU share in top world food industries 34,30 EU share in OECD population 34,30 EU share in top world telecom companies 33,70 EU share in OECD defense expenditure 33,50 EU share in top world electronical companies 25,70 EU share in the turnover of the top 45 world companies 21,10 EU share in top world consumer good companies 17,10 EU share in top world defense/aeronautic industries 16,80 EU share in top world mass communication companies 10,10 EU share in top world informatic companies 0,00 The fundamentals of the European Union still reflect the realities of the late 1950s and still comprise the following sectors (i) the coal and steel community (ii) agricultural self-sufficiency (iii) the customs union. The new international division of labor, that characterizes the world economy since the late 1960s, is the prime challenge to the logic of the Union, built around and evolving from the Franco-German alliance of the late 1950s (Inotai, 1993). Precisely these sectors are most seriously affected by world economic and technological changes. From an analytical viewpoint, one might even maintain that western Europe betrayed the chance of transformation in the East by dumping highly subventioned agricultural products on the Eastern markets and by prolonging the explicit and implicit trade barriers against Eastern exports, especially in agriculture. At any rate, East Central Europe did not receive the economic support it needed during the crucial transformation years:
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