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What do we really know about mass support for Islamism? And what is its connection to antisemitism? Our analysis of these questions is based on promax factor analytical studies based on openly available cross-national survey data. First, we analyze the determinants of what led representative global World Values Survey (WVS) global Muslim interview partners to reject to have a Jewish neighbor, which is the only available WVS item to measure antisemitism. We also identify the extent of relationships between antisemitism, the economic and social situation, religion data, and opinions on terrorism among global Muslim publics based on the global Pew Research Centre surveys. Finally, we re-evaluate Arab Barometer survey data on 'moderate Islamism' and its relationship to antisemitism. All our new quantitative evidence supports the hypothesis developed in this essay from the literature that Islamism is deeply connected to antisemitism. Our data also indicate that Muslim dissatisfaction and dissent with society, often mentioned as the drivers of Islamism, are in fact connected to Muslim secularism and a distance from Islamism. Channeling this dissent in secular leftand right-wing protest parties would be an important future task in the stabilization of Arab and Muslim democracies.

Islamismus, Antisemitismus und politischer Islam: Die Ausgangssituation -- Methoden und Daten für die Analyse -- Was wir wirklich über die Massenunterstützung für den radikalen Islamismus als Ideologie des islamistischen Terrorismus wissen -- Die arabische Welt zwischen dem Arabischen Frühling und der Unterstützung des Terrorismus - was wir aus der Meinungsforschung wissen und was die multivariate Analyse uns sagen kann -- Die Einsamkeit des Westens im Kampf gegen den Terror - was wir aus der Meinungsforschung wissen und was uns die multivariate Analyse sagen kann -- Islamismus, Arabischer Frühling und die Zukunft der Demokratie - ein Überblick über die Ergebnisse und einige Perspektiven -- Islamismus, Islamizität, die offene Gesellschaft und die Zukunft der Demokratie in der arabischen Welt -- Die Rückkehr des religiösen Antisemitismus? Die Ergebnisse der World Values Survey -- Antisemitismus und restriktive Gendernormen -- Gesellschaftliche Einstellungen, die den islamistischen Terrorismus schüren -- Islamistischer Terrorismus, politischer Islam und Migration in Westeuropa.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- The Importance of The Arab Countries in the Western Coalition on the Ukraine Conflict -- The Middle East at a Crossroad -- The Empirical Studies on Global Resilience, Based on the World Values Survey -- The Methodology of Our Study -- The Depressing Results -- The Factor Analytical Results -- Factor Analytical Results about Different Countries, Political Orientations and Denominational Groups -- The Dynamics of Value Change and Resilience -- The Political Sociology of Global Putin Support/Rejection -- Ridiculous Nationalism (Popper)? -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- For the First Time in the Global Literature -- Outlining Our Study -- Chapter 2 -- Background Developments at the Global Level -- The Debates on Resilience Gather in Pace -- The Cambridge Study on the Ukraine Opinions of 97% of the Global Population -- The United Nations General Assembly Vote of 22 February 2023 -- All Countries of the World Are Resilient, But Some Are More Resilient Than the Others? -- Chapter 3 -- Assessing the Developing Security Threats Facing Israel in a Changing Middle East -- From Independence Till October 1973 Yom Kippur War -- A New Deal: Sadat's Egypt Signs Peace Treaty with Israel -- The First Lebanon War: The Changing Threat -- The Rise of Hezbollah as the Burgeoning New Threat To Israel -- Israel in the Face of New Security Threats -- The Security Challenges Facing Israel -- Is American Influence in the Middle East Waning? -- Israel Faces Deadly Iranian Threats on Two Major Fronts -- The Ignored Water-Related Threats -- Egypt's Pivotal Role -- Türkiye -- The ISIS /Daesh Threat -- The Reappearance of Russia as a Superpower in the Middle East -- The Decline of U.S. Influence -- What Are the Prospects Ahead? -- Chapter 4 -- The Analysis of Global Values -- Hofstede.

Chapter 1. Introduction: What this Study is not and What it Aspires to be -- Chapter 2. "Political Islam" - A Contested Term -- Chapter 3. The Scientific Background to our own Empirical Study -- Chapter 4. Methods, and Design of our own Empirical Study -- Chapter 5. The Empirical Results of our Empirical Study -- Chapter 6. Discussion and Conclusions of this Study in the Context of the Empirical Results Obtained.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- About This Book -- Chapter 1 -- Setting the Scene: The Long Shadows of the Ukraine Crisis -- Chapter 2 -- Looking Back at Fifty Years of Publications in the Social Sciences, 1971-2023 -- Chapter 3 -- The Formative Salzburg Years, 1969-1976 -- Chapter 4 -- Almost Private Lessons with Nobel Prize Winner Friedrich August Hayek, 1969-1971 -- Chapter 5 -- Dependency Theory and "Critical Peace Research", 1971-1975 -- Chapter 6 -- Discovering Political Economy, 1971-1975 -- Chapter 7 -- Graduation in Salzburg and Dissertation: The Limits of Growth Theory, 1973-1975 -- Chapter 8 -- Ruach ( and the Grace of the Moment, 1977 -- Chapter 9 -- The Paradigm Consolidates: Political Science as a Strict Quantitative Discipline, 1974-2023 -- Chapter 10 -- The Innsbruck Years, 1977-1991, and America, 1990 -- Chapter 11 -- Russia's Treadmill, 1991-1999 -- Chapter 12 -- Fundamental Issues of European Integration and the European Social Model, 1999-2016: Political Economy in the Traditions of Kazimierz Laski and Kurt W. Rothschild -- Chapter 13 -- "10 Minutes of Speaking in English Is 1000 Words": Schengen, Harvard and Nobel Laureates -- Chapter 14 -- Global Values Studies, 2016-2023 -- Chapter 15 -- Study on Terrorism, 2016-2022 -- Chapter 16 -- My Research Adventures on Migration 2012 and 2014 in Türkiye (Turkey)'s Leading Economics Journal, the Boğaziçi Journal -- Chapter 17 -- Global Democracy or Cold War 2.0? -- Chapter 18 -- Where Are We Today? 1870? 1913? 1938? -- Chapter 19 -- Steindl-Kalecki Paradigm versus Neoliberalism -- Chapter 20 -- At the End of This Journey -- Chapter 21 -- A Little Self-Promotion. Reading Material about Arno Tausch -- References -- Appendix: Selected Substantial References to the Works of Arno Tausch in Global Social Science Literature (March 14, 2023) -- Index.

This open access book presents an international comparison of religiously motivated extremism in the Arab world and around the globe. Based on data from the Arab Barometer and the World Values Survey, it applies advanced statistical techniques to analyze how religiously motivated political extremism affects political and social outcomes as well as political violence. The study clearly shows that identification with a political Islam that also influences elections, promotes religious and gender discrimination, and advocates an Islamist interpretation of Islam, are the main interrelated syndromes of political Islam that together explain more than 50% of the total variance of the 24 model variables used. "A carefully and methodically flawlessly researched work, which is highly recommended for all those who deal seriously with this topic. Professor Arno Tausch is clear-headed and possesses a remarkable ability to make the broad picture of Political Islam accessible." Hon. Prof. Gunther Hauser, Head of the Department Strategy and Security Policy, National Defense Academy, Vienna, Austria "Methodological rigorous, scientifically sound, empirically rich and combining the best of qualitative and quantitative approaches, Prof Arno Tausch has produced a tour de force on Political Islam. This study reflects the best scholarship on the subject and will be of use to both policy makers and academics." Prof Hussein Solomon, Academic Head of the Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State, South Africa

Chapter 1. Introduction: Factors affecting the Gulf's future -- Chapter 2. Methodology and data for assessing the effects of Global Cycles and Value Change on the Future of the Gulf Region -- Chapter 3. Covid-19 and the contours of the impending global crisis: Western meltdown, Gulf fallout? -- Chapter 4. Caught in the "Thucydides Trap"? Revisiting Kondratieff Waves, Warfare and World Security and their implications for the Gulf region -- Chapter 5. Learning from classical Arab writers: G-Zero and the cultural aspects of changing global leadership: rediscovering Ibn Khaldun's "Asabiyya" with the latest PEW Global Survey and World Values Survey data -- Chapter 6. Value change and patterns of development in the rich Arab countries -- Chapter 7. Antisemitism – the second contemporary pandemic and what the Gulf countries can do to overcome it -- Chapter 8. Saudi Arabia - Religion, gender and the desire for democracy -- Chapter 9. Executive Summary, Conclusions and Perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Summary of the Main Findings and Perspectives -- Chapter 2 -- The Civic Culture of the Arab World: A Comparative Analysis Based on World Values Survey Data -- 2.1. Background -- 2.2. Methodology and Design -- 2.3. First Implications from the WVS Data for the Arab World -- 2.4. Towards a UNDP Type of Index of a Democratic Civil Society by Global Comparison -- 2.5. Some Implications from the Multivariate Analysis at the Global Level -- 2.6. Prospects and Conclusions: Are the Arab Countries Really That Different? -- Appendix Matter for the Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in World Values Survey Data -- 3.1. Background -- 3.2. Methods and Data -- 3.3. Mass Support for Traditional Gender Roles in the Muslim World -- 3.4. The Case for a Muslim Feminist Perspective, Critical of the Veil -- 3.4.1. Correlations of Opinions on the Western Dress Code, the Veil and Polygamy -- 3.4.2. Evidence from the Multivariate Analysis -- Conclusion and Prospects -- Data Appendix for Chapter 3 -- World Values Survey Data File WVS_Longitudinal_1981_2014 -- Muslim Respondents Only -- A Factor Analytical Model -- Chapter 4 -- Islamism and Antisemitism. Preliminary Evidence on Their Relationship from Cross-National Opinion Data -- 4.1. Background -- 4.2. The Peccata Nostra Theory: Islamism - a Fruit of "Our (Western) Sins"? -- 4.3. Data and Methodology -- 4.4. Antisemitism - A Key towards Understanding Islamism -- 4.5. The "Muslim Brotherhood Factor"? Re-Analyzing PEW Data: Identifying the Extent of Religious, Anti-Semitic and Pro-Market Forces -- 4.6. Beyond Tessler's Reading of the Arab Barometer Results -- Conclusion and Prospects -- Statistical Appendix to Chapter 4 -- Antisemitism as the Key towards Understanding Islamism.

Intro -- TITANIC 2010? THE EUROPEAN UNIONAND ITS FAILED LISBON STRATEGY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY -- ABSTRACT -- GLOSSARY AND CONVENTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- ON THE LISBON TRAIN - SOME SECOND THOUGHTSON THE EUROSTAT APPROACH, BASED ON A SINGLEFACTOR MODEL -- IS THERE NO SINGLE LISBON PROCESS AT ALL?A FOUR-FACTOR MODEL -- SOME NOTES ON THE CAUSALITY OF THE LISBONPROCESS ON THE EUROPEAN LEVEL -- ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THEEUROPEAN REGIONS -- BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY LIFE AND GLOBALDEVELOPMENT - THE THEORY -- BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY LIFE AND GLOBALDEVELOPMENT - THE RESEARCH DESIGN -- "DESTRUCTIVE CREATION" AND GLOBALDEVELOPMENT - PRESENTING AND INTERPRETINGTHE NEW EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- TITANIC 2010 - THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, R&D,THE PROLONGED WORKBENCH AND THAT OTHERLISBON RACE -- POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES AND CONCLUSIONS -- STATISTICAL APPENDIX -- THE BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY LIFE INDEX -- A PATH MODEL WORLD GROWTH AND SOCIALDEVELOPMENT -- ENHANCING SOCIAL EUROPE - THE MINISTERIALDECLARATION OF THE "12" FOR A SOCIAL EUROPE -- ANNEXSOME HINTS FOR FUTURE WORK -- THE OTHER LISBON RACE:THE SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY RANKING OF THEWORLD'S TOP 500 UNIVERSITIES -- DATA SOURCES -- TUITION FEES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION -- SELECTED REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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