From the Table of Contents:
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
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
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
Summary:
Euro-sclerosis at the heart of the Union of presently 15 nations is a reality. Take any indicator of economic illness in the relatively stable Western democracies today - unemployment, lack of economic growth, insufficient human development: it will be neatly determined by just three variables:
- age of democracy within world politically guaranteed boundaries
- size of the state sector, like central government expenditures per GDP
- years of membership in the European Union
Instead of causing stable long-term economic growth, the Union rather causes what might be termed ‘the Belgium syndrome’. Relatively young democracies, like Poland or the Czech Republic, Hungary or Slovenia, will still benefit for a few years from the positive effects of early membership; but the positive initial effects will disappear with the workings of the really existing Union in the long run.
