Dar Al Islam--the Mediterranean, the World System, and the Wider Europe
Dar Al Islam--the Mediterranean, the World System, and the Wider Europe

Author: Peter Herrmann

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781594542862

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With the process of a 'wider Europe' (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi's 'ring of friends') that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing rift between Europe and America also is about how to deal politically with the countries of the Mediterranean-Muslim world. The house of Islam (Dar al Islam) was pivotal to the European path to the Renaissance and to the re-discovery of classic Greek philosophy. The Mediterranean policy of the European Union aims at a positive and co-operative relationship with the region. A successful integration of the Mediterranean South would have tremendous and positive repercussions for regional and world peace. World-wide leading experts from the field of world systems analysis, economics, integration theory, political science, theology and area studies, agnostics, Christians, Jews and Muslims alike discuss the issue with European decision makers. The outcome is an interdisciplinary evaluation of this projected export of peace, co-operation, dialogue and stability in the framework of world centre-periphery relationships.

Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments
Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments

Author: H. Bruyninckx

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-04-26

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1137005424

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This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.

Against Islamophobia
Against Islamophobia

Author: Arno Tausch

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781600215360

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In this book, the author presents optimistic, socio-liberal conclusions about Islam in the world system. Countering some alarmist voices in the West, neither migration nor Muslim culture are to be blamed for the contemporary crisis, but the very nature of unequal capitalist accumulation and dependency that is at the core of the world capitalist system. For one, the analysis is based on current thinking on Kondratiev waves of world political development inherent in recent work by IIASA and the NATO Institute for Advanced Studies. Analyses are also presented on the framework of the debate on cross-national determinants of human well-being in the world system. While the author is cautiously optimistic about a socio-liberal, non-interventionist policy alternative, he has come to the conclusion that present patterns of global governance, modeled around the neo-liberal Washington Consensus and American hyperpower, are doomed for failure. A new, socio-liberal global consensus on global migration, global order and global governance could emerge instead.

The Sustainability of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Sustainability of Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Publisher: United Nations Publications

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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This document is adopted from The Latin America and Caribbean Regional Preparatory Conference for the Wordl Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in October 2001. It seeks to present an overview of the progress made towards sustainable development since the Earth summit and an assessment of the challenges and opportunities that should be taken into account with a view to the adoption of future measures.

CEPAL Review
CEPAL Review

Author: United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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