Globalization and European Integration

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Globalization and European Integration
by Arno Tausch, 
Associate Visiting Professor, 
Innsbruck University, Austria.
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Table of Contents:
Forward and Summary 
List of abbreviations and concepts (functional terms) 
List of Tables 
List of Graphs 
List of Maps 
Foreword (1) 
Foreword (2) and Executive Summary 

 I Globalization, environmental decay and sexism in the capitalist world
system 
 Introduction 
2) The theoretical framework: what can policy-makers know about ascent and
decline in the world economy? 
3) The international environment is basically unstable. A survey of the
contemporary research methods for the study of changes in the world system
since 1989 
4) TNC dependence is causing long-term stagnation 
The cross-national results about the effects of globalization 

5.The contradictions of the process of the global environmental
destruction, to which Europe as one of the main regions of world industry
and traffic, disproportionately contributes 

Environmental disintegration 
6) Gender discrimination and sexism in world capitalism 

7.Development or decay? 

II The instability of the transformation process 
8) The instability of the transformation process 
The( in)validity of Huntington's culture conflict approach on a world level

The return of dictatorship? Towards understanding the process of
ethno-political conflict and the world-wide refugee problem 
Country risk analysis 
Transnational crime as a global actor 
  
III A Labor perspective on basic issues of European Integration 
 9) A Labor Perspective on Basic Issues of European Integration 
The eastward expansion of the European Union 
A Polish regional case study 
The Eastern part of Europe and the long Kondratieff wave: historical
evidence 
Transformation success or failure - the macroquantitative evidence 
Europe must come to terms with the contradictions of the process of the
aging of democracies, especially phenomena which one might term sclerosis
bruxelliana and sclerosis Europea 
The (in)efficiency of the European Union at the level of stable western
democracies 
Globalization, East European reconstruction and the fatal conceit of
euro-centrism 
Transnational integration and national disintegration - a 134 nation study
and a further note on EU-enlargements 
The Rotten Heart of Europe? A technical note on EMU and the rise of
world-wide narco capitalism 
  
IV Migration and globalization 

 10) Migration and globalization 

Appendix 

Samples and data 
List of variables 
The general model of world development, based on 123 nations 
The models based on 134 countries 
Development as a function of the Human Development Index 
The instability model based on 99 countries 
Corruption levels in 47 countries 
The models based on 49 Polish voivodships 
Excess mortality in the Polish provinces 
The effect of years of European Union membership on developed stable
democracies before Union enlargements 1981-95 
European Union enlargement scenario 
Kondratieff cycle data 
TNC Penetration and Transformation Country Development 
Effects of the European Union before and after the enlargements of 1981,
1986, 1995 
Effects of the European Union after enlargements 

Bibliography 
Index