The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of quantitative world systems theory for two dimensions of development (human development, income redistribution) on a global scale and on the level of the European regions and tries to confront the basic pro-globalist assumptions of...

Our analysis, based on a variety of standard econometric techniques, aims to be a fairly comprehensive test of the hypotheses about long cycles, associated with the name of Kondratiev/Kondratieff. Our work tries to link the issue of long cycles with the issue of economic convergence and...

This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify evolving relationships between the...

The geo-strategic consequences of what the medical profession nowadays calls “a pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin” are nearly beyond our imaginations. In this article we show that the world faces the stark perspective of a global pandemic, which, if...