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Volume I: Elites and Concepts
Volume II: Networks
Author: Hichem Karoui
With a preface by: Arno Tausch Continue reading The Middle East as a U.S. Predicament
La pertinence continue du modèle de la dépendance quantitative Modèle de (Bornschier)
Par :
Arno TAUSCH[1] Professeur adjoint de sciences politiques à l’université d’Innsbruck, Autriche
E-mail: Arno.Tausch @ uibk.ac.at
Almas HESHMATI, Professeur d’économie, College of Engineering, TEMEP, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shilim-dong, Kwanak-Gu, Seoul, 151-742 Seoul, South Korea,Email: heshmati@snu.ac.kr
Hichem KAROUI, Docteur en sociologie, Sorbonne, Paris
Email : info@hichemkaroui.com
Soumis à Revue Tiers Monde (Paris)
3. La dépendance sur les MNC comme clé d’analyse des transformations contemporaines
Une analyse scientométrique de la vaste littérature de recherche empirique concernée par la dépendance dans les grandes revues internationales de sciences sociales, révèle que jusqu’au 4 Juillet 2009, 328 grandes études internationales ont cité l’analyse empirique très avancée de Galtung sur la dépendance (1971), qui lie la dépendance mesurée par partenaire commercial de la concentration et la concentration des produits d’exportation à l’inégalité de répartition des revenus. Soixante-quatorze autres grandes études internationales ont été fondées sur l’essai Sunkel (1973), qui est plus directement lié à la notion de pénétration des MNC que l’Essai Galtung (1971). Galtung (1971) et Sunkel (1973), à leur tour doivent être considérés comme les auteurs des essais catalyseurs pour les deux études pionnières sur la dépendance quantitative, écrits par Chase Dunn (1975) [qui fut à son tour suivi par 213 études], et Rubinson (1976) [qui à ce jour, a donné suite à 170 études dans les grandes revues de sciences sociales du monde]. Bornschier / Chase-Dunn / Rubinson, bâtissant sur Chase-Dunn (1975), et Rubinson (1978), donnèrent plus tard l’étude la plus importante dans le domaine, en systématisant la recherche basée sur le concept de la pénétration des MNC. Cet essai initialise 185 études suivantes, tandis que Bornschier / Ballmer-Cao, se consacrent à la question de l’inégalité économique comme une conséquence de la pénétration des MNC, donnèrent suite à 74 autres études.[2] Continue reading Documentation: Polarisation sociale à l’ère de la mondialisation
ISN Special Issue January 2010
In the small Italian town of Rosarno, riots erupted in early January as illegal workers protested against the racist attack of two men by the criminal organization that had arranged for their migration and employment in Calabria. The riots marked a symptom of a wider problem in Italy’s south – the government’s inability to cope with the increasing power and bravado of organized crime groups. The organizations responsible for bringing illegal workers into Calabria operate outside the formal Italian economy and their operations present a growing threat to the human rights of immigrants and Europe’s internal security. Continue reading Italy in Peril: Organized Crime and State Impotence in the South
by David Goldfield
American Studies Journal Number 53 (Summer 2009)
Evangelical religion and evangelical democracy reinforced each other in nineteenth-century America. The spread of evangelical Christianity and democracy across a continent justified the wars against Native Americans and Mexico, and provided the moral framework for the fight against slavery which many Americans came to see as incompatible with Protestant Christianity and democratic government. The problem with mixing religion and politics in this manner was that political issues became moral issues and, therefore, more difficult to deal with in the political process. Continue reading Evangelical Religion and Evangelical Democracy: Lincoln’s Legacy
Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better
Jan 28th 2010 | From The Economist print edition
Illustration by Ian Whadcock 
THE annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, currently in progress, is famous for making connections among the global great and good. But when the delegates go home again, getting even a few of them together in a room becomes difficult. To allow the leaders to keep talking, the forum’s organisers last year launched a pilot version of a secure online service where members can post mini-biographies and other information, and create links with other users to form collaborative working groups. Dubbed the World Electronic Community, or WELCOM, the forum’s exclusive online network has only about 5,000 members. Continue reading A world of connections
Cato Policy Report, January/February 2010
by Jeffrey Friedman
Jeffrey Friedman is the editor of Critical Review and of Causes of the Financial Crisis, forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
You are familiar by now with the role of the Federal Reserve in stimulating the housing boom; the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in encouraging lowequity mortgages; and the role of the Community Reinvestment Act in mandating loans to “subprime” borrowers, meaning those who were poor credit risks. So you may think that the government caused the financial crisis. But you don’t know the half of it. And neither does the government. Continue reading A Perfect Storm of Ignorance
Pierre Bourdieu
J’ai assisté dans les années 1960 en Algérie à ce qui m’apparaît rétrospectivement comme une véritable expérimentation sociale Ce pays dans lequel certaines populations montagnardes reculées et isolées comme celles que ai pu étudier en Kabylie avaient pu conserver conserver à peu près intactes les traditions une économie précapitaliste tout à fait étrangère à la logique du marché marché a connu avec la guerre de libération et certaines des mesures de la politique militaire de répression comme les regroupements de population opérés par armée armée française une sorte accélération historique qui a fait coexister ou se télescoper sous le regard de observateur observateur deux formes ordinairement séparées par un intervalle de plusieurs siècles de système économique aux exigences contradictoires1 Continue reading La fabrique de habitus économique
Researchers find social aspects of learning important at all ages
According to recent studies, young children learn best through social interaction. Andrew Meltzoff and his colleagues at the University of Washington are studying an emerging field called the “Science of Learning,” which re-evaluates how children learn in formal and informal settings. Continue reading Discovery: The New Science of Learning
A companion to a multivariate analysis
Arno Tausch
Copenhagen and after. A 175 nation data set from international sources
The debate about globalization and the human condition in the 21st Century is really never-ending. In the following freely available data documentation, provided by the Austrian political scientist Dr. Arno Tausch, recent cross-national data from international sources for 175 countries were especially arranged for global students and researchers of globalization, with a special emphasis on the environment effects of globalization in the wake of the recent Copenhaguen conference.
With the present data set, sociologists, political scientists and economists will be able to exactly statistically estimate the effects of the following variables on global development: Continue reading Globalization and the human condition in the 21st Century.
MAX WEBER
On The Methodology of the Social Sciences
Translated and Edited by EDWARD A. SHILS and HENRY A. FINCH
With a Foreword by EDWARD A. SHILS
The essays in this book were written, as all methodological essays should be written, in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on the substantive problems of the theory and strategy of the social sciences. They were written in the years between 1903 and 1917, the most productive years of Max Weber’s life, when he was working on his studies in the sociology of religion and on the second and third parts of Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Even before the earliest of the three published here —” ‘Objectivity’ in Social Science and Social Policy”— was written, Weber had achieved eminence in Germany in a variety of fields. Continue reading On The Methodology of the Social Sciences
Its Role in Conflict and Peace
Series: USIP Special Reports
This paper addresses the potentially positive role of religion in peacemaking and conflict resolution, commenting on the United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) field work experiences. It examines the link between religion and conflict, reviews the experiences with religious activism, mediation and facilitation and discusses the importance of interfaith dialogue. Subsequently, the paper points to the US government’s neglect of the religious dimension of conflicts. The author argues that the nature of the religious dimension of international conflict is sometimes neglected, often misunderstood and frequently exaggerated. Continue reading Religion in World Affairs
The U.S. economy of the 21st century little resembles that of the 18th century, but acceptance of change and embrace of competition remain unchanged.
“The panic itself was felt in every part of the globe,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “It was as if a volcano had burst forth in New York, causing a tidal wave that swept with disastrous power over every nation on the globe.” One of the after-effects: “an accumulation of idle money in the banking centres.” The date of this item? January 17, 1908.
Given the sobering news that of late has arrived with distressing frequency, preparing this edition of Outline of the U.S. Economy has been a real challenge. We have tried to approach the task with a sense of historical consciousness. In addition to the 1908 events depicted above, the United States has endured a Great Depression (began 1929), a Long Depression (began 1873), a Panic of 1837 — “an American financial crisis, built on a speculative real estate market,” says Wikipedia — and assorted other recessions, panics, bubbles, and contractions, and emerged from each with its economic vigor restored and its republican institutions vibrant.
We hope that our readers will find this new entry in our Outline series frank, informative, and above all useful. We offer it in the spirit of optimism embedded deeply in American life.
—The Editors Continue reading Outline of the U.S. Economy
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