This book presents a methodological framework for the analysis
of intercultural issues frequently misinterpreted by existing
theories. It uses a challenge-and-response theory of cultural
development to examine the relationship between different natural
disasters and threats and the developments of ancient
civilizations. The spatial interaction of ancient civilizations is
assessed; and four non-linear patterns of intercultural dynamics
are presented. Our empirical analyses of the four major ancient
civilizations (the Mesopotamian, the Egyptian, the Indus, and the
Chinese) focus on intercultural influences as well as how they have
shaped the spatial dynamics of the world as a whole.
This book also examines various aspects of intercultural
economic influences, such as those of culture on international
trade. Evidence from a broad panel of nations supports the
presumption that high-income trade partners will be less sensitive
to the measures of cultural dissimilarity than low-income trade
partners between which cultural dissimilarity leads to barriers to
international trade. The treatment of linguistic and religious
factors as continuous variables in this book has improved past
studies in which language was treated as one or more dummy
variables and religion was ignored.
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