Methodology -- Cultural Analysis -- Summary and Conclusion -- 8 An Assessment of World-System Theory -- Strengths -- Weaknesses -- Other Directions in the Study of Global Change -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index
So his gift to us is not just a new understanding of how the world works but a new way of apprehending it. A brilliant work on both scores.
Fernández Retamar, who is an important specialist on the work of Martí and also a Marxist, has explained to me at length that Martí assimilated many of these socialist elements during his stay in New York. Fernández Retamar gives credit ...
Authors in this book place the issue of rising inequalities at the center of their analyses.
World-Systems Theory in Practice: Leadership, Production, and Exchange, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Hall, Thomas D. (2000). “Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis, and World-Systems: Rethinking the Theories,” pp. 237–70 in Thomas D. Hall, ...
The first volume in a new series from SAGE presenting work in the world-systems perspective, a school of social science thought that views the world economy as a single system...
The book's middle section is a log of insightful commentaries written between 2001 and 2004 detailing how the Bush administration has broken the pattern of foreign policies set by six presidents from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton.
Thompson, W.R. (ed.) (1983) Contending Approaches to World System Analysis, Beverly Hills: Sage. (1989) On Global War: Historical-Structural Approaches to World Politics, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
This book provides all the necessary resources for readers to work through the foundations of systems theory – no other work by Luhmann is as clear and accessible as this.
This book is a major contribution to our collective dialogue on the past and the future." —Immanuel Wallerstein Binghamton University, author of The Modern World-System "An up-to-date and synthetic overview of current world-systems ...
"The Modern World System", Immanuel Wallerstein's influential multivolume reinterpretation of global history, traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth century to the twentieth.