Hichem Karoui

Documentation: Polarisation sociale à l’ère de la mondialisation

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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 [...]

Italy in Peril: Organized Crime and State Impotence in the South

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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 [...]

Evangelical Religion and Evangelical Democracy: Lincoln’s Legacy

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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 [...]

A world of connections

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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 [...]

A Perfect Storm of Ignorance

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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 [...]

La fabrique de habitus économique

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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 [...]

Discovery: The New Science of Learning

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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.

“We’re finding that social aspects of [...]

The Middle East as a U.S. Predicament

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All you need to know about The Bush II Years (2000-2008) is here: The book is now available on Amazon

Volume I: Elites and Concepts Volume II: Networks

Author: Hichem Karoui

With a preface by: Arno Tausch

ANTHEM PRESS – London- New York- Delhi

The Middle East as a U.S. Predicament, The Bush II years [...]

Globalization and the human condition in the 21st Century.

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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 [...]

On The Methodology of the Social Sciences

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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 [...]