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Arno Tausch (born February 11, 1951 in Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian political scientist. His research program is focused on world systems theory, development studies and dependency theory, European studies in the framework of core-periphery relationships, and quantitative Peace and conflict studies. [1]
Tausch received his Ph.D. in political science from Salzburg University in 1976. [2] His habilitation at the Department of Political Science at Innsbruck University was concluded in 1988; the Chairperson of his habilitation commission was Professor Anton Pelinka. External reviewers included an external opinion submitted by Karl Wolfgang Deutsch of Harvard University. [3] Since then he has been adjunct professor (‘Universitätsdozent’) at that department. [4] In May 2022, he became Visiting Professor of Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. [5] He was also an associate visiting professor of Economics at Corvinus University Budapest. [6] Tausch currently is a regular contributor to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs in Israel. [7] Tausch is a member of the international advisory board of Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. [8] [9]
Tausch had authored books in English, French, and German, [10] as well as articles in scholarly journals. [11] He also has written articles for Die Presse , Der Standard , Die Furche , and Wiener Zeitung [12]
His research started with a rethinking of dependency theory in the framework of quantitative data and statistical analysis and work on poverty in the leading industrialized countries. His doctoral thesis at Salzburg University on "The limits to growth theory" [13] was dedicated to the empirical analysis of dependency, income inequality, and social development in up to 40 countries of the world, with country studies for Brazil and Yugoslavia. [14]
His habilitation thesis focused on multiple regression models of global development, based on data from the World Bank and Volker Bornschier as well as the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators III, and tests the relevance of socio-liberal approaches to world development, already inherent in the writings of classical social democratic development theories in Europe in the 1930s with multiple regression and canonical correlation models. [15] [16] [17] [18] This approach was continued and expanded in Socio-Liberal Theory of World Development (1993). [19] . Later work dealt with Russia and the global Kondratieff cycle, [20] [21] the effects of the arms trade on social development, especially for the countries of Eastern Europe and the former USSR. [22] [23] In the 1990s, Tausch analyzed migration processes and the transformation of post-communist countries. [24]
Later work included studies on social indicators of development, [25] Kondratieff cycles, [26] contradictions of the European Union development model, [27] [28] Global Keynesianism and comparative price levels, [29] [30] ; social expenditures [31] and developments in the Middle East. [32]
Although the concept of "unequal exchange", as developed by Kohler and Tausch [33] has become one of the standard definitions in "world system theory" [34] and in critical studies on globalization and sustainable development, [35] the Turkish economist Turan Subasat (Izmir University) criticized this concept by saying that international prices are formed in a complex manner and lower international prices for low income countries cannot simply be considered as evidence for unequal exchange. [36]
In a major review of the recent book by Solomon and Tausch on the Arab MENA Countries: Vulnerabilities and Constraints Against Democracy on the Eve of the Global COVID-19 Crisis [37] Idris Kassem wrote in Arabic for the Journal Al Jazeera Studies, 2022, 2, that [38]
"the research was not able to get rid of the stereotypical representations that remained closely associated with the Arab countries in the region, and this link between the geographical field and ready perceptions about culture, politics, history, religion, ethnic differentiation, religious privacy and social construction is not a matter of the day, but is part of an ancient orientalist culture transmitted by contemporary transformations and superiority Technological and technological change to a European/American supremacist centralism governed and directed by hegemony, control, and political, economic and strategic power. Research and studies centers and formal and informal structures of thinking and analysis have played pivotal roles in perpetuating advanced levels of stereotyping. And we consider that a major tool was employed in this framework, and it was not detailed in the chapters of the book, and it is related to external and foreign interference in all the affairs of the region and its states, both internally and externally." [38]
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Askar Akayevich Akayev is a Kyrgyz politician who served as President of Kyrgyzstan from 1990 until being overthrown in the March 2005 Tulip Revolution.
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development of the general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his world-systems approach. He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019, and published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019.
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Dependency theory is of the notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. It is a central contention of dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system". This theory was officially developed in the late 1960s following World War II, as scholars searched for the root issue in the lack of development in Latin America.
Raúl Prebisch was an Argentine economist known for his contributions to structuralist economics such as the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis, which formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He became the executive director of the Economic Commission for Latin America in 1950. In 1950, he also released the very influential study The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems.
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Samir Amin was an Egyptian-French Marxian economist, political scientist and world-systems analyst. He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988 and considered a pioneer of Dependency Theory.
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