Politics of the World-Economy The States, the Movements and the Civilizations

Name: Politics of the World-Economy The States, the Movements and the Civilizations
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ISBN: 9780521277600

ISBN-10: 0521277604

ISBN-13: 9780521277600

Edition: 1984

Authors: Immanuel Wallerstein, Maurice Aymard, Jacques Revel, Jacques Revel

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In these essays, written (with one exception) between 1978 and 1982, Immanuel Wallerstein elaborates on the political and theoretical implications of the world-systems perspective outlined in his celebrated books The Modern World-System and The Capitalist World-Economy. Whereas those books centred on the historical development of the modern world-system, the essays in this volume explore the nature of world politics in the light of Wallerstein's analysis of the world-system and capitalist world-economy. Throughout, the essays offer new perspectives on the central issues of political debate today: the roles of the USA and the USSR in the world-system, the relations of the Third World states…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/17/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Immanuel Wallerstein has been a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University since 2000, having taught previously at many distinguished universities. Among his many books, he is the author of the magisterial 4-volume work, The Modern World System. Volume IV is recently published.



Acknowledgments



World networks and the politics of the world-economy



Patterns and prospectives of the capitalist world-economy



The states and the interstate system



The states in the institutional vortex of the capitalist world-economy



The three instances of hegemony in the history of the capitalist world-economy



The withering away of the states



Friends as foes



The USA in the world today



The world-economy and the state-structures in peripheral and dependent countries (the so-called Third World)



Socialist states: mercantilist strategies and revolutionary objectives



Antisystemic movements



The future of the world-economy



Eurocommunism: its roots in European working-class history



Nationalism and the world transition to socialism: is there a crisis?



Revolutionary movements in the era of US hegemony and after



The civilizational project



The quality of life in different social systems: the model and the reality



Civilizations and modes of production: conflicts and convergences



The dialectics of civilizations in the modern world-system



The development of the concept of development


Index