Suchergebnisse

Vorbemerkung -- Einleitung: Politische Gleichheit -- Dimensionen politischer Partizipation -- Soziale Schicht im internationalen Vergleich -- "Politische Ungleichheit" im internationalen Vergleich -- Die Partizipationsdisparitäten in den Acht Ländern -- Ursachen politischer Ungleichheit -- Die politische Repräsentativität der Aktivisten -- Zusammenfassung.

Looks at the development of a global adoption of European social, economic and political structures. Discusses this rising European influence under 3 headings: knights and merchants (Eleventh-Fourteenth centuries); adventurers and companies (Fifteenth-Eighteenth centuries), and generals and industrialists (Nineteenth-Twentieth centuries). (RSM)

Europe's relations with the Third World will be altered as a result of the movement towards integration. Looks at the likely effects on political (and especially socialist) ideologies, trends towards north-south regionalisation and the globalisation of economic growth. (RSM)

Traditional functionalist schools of thought assign an international-level system-maintaining & -rejuvenating function to world wars. Here, an alternative approach is presented that ignores the meaning behind warfare & stresses the importance of dyadic power transitions at the systemic level. Analysis of unequal dyads, equal dyads, & dyads with overtaking (ie, with one dyad partner surpassing the other), & the timing of war outbreaks over 20-year periods 1816-1975 suggests that changes in a nation's capability, either modernization or decline, are a necessary condition for war, & that wars are significantly correlated with power transitions in dyads of major powers. Methodological limitations of the study include establishment of time frames & lack of analysis of the impact of intervening variables, eg, motivation, on the outbreak of war. 5 Tables, 25 References. D. Generoli