Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780415563642 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 541 str.

Salvatore Babones; Christopher Chase-Dunn

Opis

This volume reviews the state of the field of world-systems analysis. World-systems analysts study the structure of the relationships among people, organisations, and states and how those relationships change over time.

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Introduction   Part 1: Origins  1. Before the Long 16th Century  1. Market Cooperation and the Evolution of the Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican World-System  2. Assessing the Debate between Abu-Lughod and Wallerstein over the Thirteenth-Century Origins of the Modern World-System  3. Afroeurasian World-System: Genesis, Transformations, Characteristics  4. Agricultural Origins and Early Development  5. Qubilai and the Indian Ocean: A New Era?  2. Historical Processes of Incorporation and Development  6. Incorporation into and Merger of World-Systems  7. The Great Transition Debate and World-Systems Analysis  8. The Social Foundations of Global Conflict and Cooperation: Globalization and Global Elite Integration, 19th to 21st Century  9. The East Asian Path of Development  10. Darfur: The Periphery of the Periphery  Part 2: Theory and Critiques  3. Theoretical Frontiers in World-Systems Analysis  11. Externality, Contact Periphery and Incorporation  12. Wallerstein’s World-System: Roots and Contributions  13. The Structures of Knowledge: Conceptualizing the Socio-Cultural Arena of Historical Capitalism  14. The Multiplicity of National Development in the World-System: A Critical Perspective  15. Crisis in the World-System: Theoretical and Policy Implications  16. Core, Semiperiphery, Periphery: A Variable Geometry Presiding over Conceptualization  17. Terminal Crisis or a New Systemic Cycle of Accumulation?  4. Explicit Modeling as a Research Strategy  18. Measuring Transition and Hierarchy of States within the World-Systems Paradigm  19. World-Systems as Dissipative Structures: A New Research Agenda  20. Narrating Stories about the World System of the First Global Age, 1400-1800  21. World-Systems Theory and Formal and Simulation Modeling  22. Mathematical Models of the World-System Development  5. Critical Contributions to World-Systems Analysis  23. World System History: Challenging Eurocentric Knowledge  24. The Failure of the "Modern World System" and the New Paradigm of the "Critical Theory of Patriarchy" The "Civilization of Alchemists" as a "System of War"  25. Authenticating 17th Century "Hegemonies": Dutch, Spanish, French, or None?  26. The Challenges of Globalization Theory to World-Systems Analysis  Part 3: The Contemporary World-Economy  6. Markets and Exchange  27. Surplus Drain and Dark Value in the Modern World-System  28. The Silence of Finance and Its Critics: Portfolio Investors in the World-System  29. Debt Crises in the Modern World-System  30. Economic-Political Interaction in the Core/Periphery Hierarchy  31. The Other Side of the Global Formation: Structures of the World Lumpeneconomy  7. Networks and Chains  32. Global Cities, Global Commodity Chains And The Geography of Core-Ness in the Capitalist World-System  33. Trade, Unequal Exchange and Global Commodity Chains: World-System Structure and Economic Development  34. Global Cities and World City Networks  35. How Individuals Shape Global Production  36. World Cities in Asia  37. The Internet and the World-System(s)  8. Globalization and Distribution  38. Globalization: Theories of Convergence and Divergence in the World-System  39. Social Stratification and Mobility: National and Global Dimensions  40. Income Inequality in the World: Looking Back and Ahead  41. Billionaires and Global Inequality: Does An Increase in One Indicate an Increase in the Other?  42. The Pervasiveness of ICT in Our Present Modern World-System