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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.

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.

"In this book, Austrian political scientist Arno Tausch, born in 1951, looks back on five decades of political science. Was the current global crisis preventable? Tausch, who has had a long career in academia and administration and is now Visiting Professor of Political Studies and Governance at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, tries to show in his scholarly memoirs that the unequal relations between centres and peripheries that he has analysed over five decades, as well as the long conflict-ridden cycles of the world economy and world politics, could have been avoided, and Putinism and nationalism and the end of peace and social justice in the West are also linked to the neoliberal model of society in the West, which he learned to reject as a student of Nobel laureate Friedrich August Hayek in Salzburg from 1969 to 1971. He is one of the few political scientists in the world who, since 1991, has persistently warned against the hardening of Russia's course, including in leading Russian academic journals. In 1991 he wrote his book "Russia's Treadmill", the predictions of which have come true in an almost eerie way. But neo-liberal economic policy also corresponds 1:1 with the foreign policy vision of the "neocons", whose policy of NATO expansion first fuelled those destructive forces in Russia like an accelerant, leading to today's world crisis over Ukraine, which could end in a global nuclear catastrophe. The world must leave behind neo-liberalism, and return to political and economic concepts such as those of Michal Kalecki, Kazimierz Laski, Kurt Rothschild and Josef Steindl, whose basic structures he became acquainted with in the 1970s and which are still valid today: demand as the engine of growth, a stable or rising wage share, the growth of the public sector, fiscal coordination, international cooperation, coexistence and the rule of law within the framework of the 1975 Helsinki Accords"--

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.

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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Developing a theory (Surveying the grand theories) -- Looking back on earlier research -- The variables -- The research design -- The results for the fourteen core dependent variables -- Discussion on the results so far -- Life satisfaction, unequal exchange, unemployment and Muslim population shares -- The gender dimension -- The dimension of human rights -- Concluding final tests and theoretical surveys -- General conclusions for the Global Lisbon Index and its components