Summary: | 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. The thematic catholicity of this volume offers a fine reflection of the width and breadth of Arno Tausch's scholarship. The collected essays address crucially important topics of our age all of which comprised TAUSCH's many publications. Kudos to the editors and contributors for assembling such a fine anthology celebrating a fine scholar. Andrei S. Markovits. Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA To shape all levels of the world so that peace will prevail - this has been the scientific and political impulse of Arno TAUSCH all lifelong. Dieter Senghaas, Professor of Peace, Conflict and Development Research, Frankfurt University, Germany This book with contributions from experts in the filed represents well Professor Arno TAUSCH’s major contributions to the literature on development, welfare, institutions, globalization, global values, and security using large datasets and advanced composite index methodology in large cross-country comparative studies. Almas Heshmati, Professor of Economics, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden
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