Purpose – The paper aims to query the value of strategies implemented, notably in France, and to demonstrate the largely ignored link between demographics and economics. Design/methodology/approach – The paper achieves its objective by comparing statistics of European Union (EU) members and competitors to reveal that traditional views on economics and social policy may no longer apply. Findings...

Anthropocentrism has been claimed to be the root of global environmental crisis. Based on a multidisciplinary (e.g. philosophy, animal ethics, anthropology, law) and multilingual (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese) literature review, this article proposes conceptual analysis ‘anthropocentrism’ reconstructs often implicit argument that links anthropocentrism The variety usages concept d...

Widespread fear that hosting refugees will mean more terrorism in host states is at the heart of “refugee crisis.” Yet, we lack rigorous evidence for such claims. This article theoretically unpacks how and under what conditions transnational refugee movements plausibly lead to different types terrorist outcomes. Combining original data with a multipronged approach involving treatment-placebo de...

Abstract According to anthropological philosopher René Girard (1923–2015), an important human adaptation is our propensity victimize or scapegoat. He argued that other traits upon which sociality depends would have destabilized primate dominance-based social hierarchies, making conspecific conflict a limiting factor in hominin evolution. surmised novel mechanism for inhibiting intragroup must e...