11 articles in this issue
Khaldoun Samman
This essay concerns two Jewish men from different historical formations: the Apostle Paul, a Jew living in the Roman Empire in the first century and one of the founding figures of Christianity, and Theodor Herzl, a Jew living in late-nineteenth-century Au... see more
M. Shahid Alam
This paper reviews the growing body of evidence on the relative economic standing of different regions of the world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In general, it does not find support for Euro-centric claims regarding Western Europ... see more
Almas Heshmati
This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in the empirical analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with the quantification of their impacts and empirical results... see more
Robert Biel
This article considers capitalism as a dissipative system, developing at the expense of exporting disorder into two sorts of environment: the physical ecosystem; and a subordinate area of society which serves to nourish mainstream order without experienci... see more
Omar Lizardo
The events of 9/11 have rekindled interest in the social sciences concerning the global factors responsible for transnational terrorism. Two opposing frameworks currently dominate the scene: proponents of a destructive globalization approach argue that pr... see more
James C. Fraser
What are the underlying spatial assumptions about the world that renders some cities exemplars of modernity and innovation, while others are cast as being behind, and worse yet, forgotten places? This is a key question that has emerged in geography and so... see more
Bruce Podobnik
Jon D. Carlson
Thomas D. Hall
Emanuel Gregory Boussios