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A vital overview of perspective on the history of the world system for all graduates and researchers in a variety of fields such as international political economy, world history and sociology.

A survey of international political economy curricula at universities in GB & the US (N = 26 & 241, respectively) explores what is being taught in these courses, determines whether the classes are traditional or inclusive, considers implications for the field, & analyzes the differences between university communities in GB & the US. In both settings, classes focus on the importance of the state, although this traditional perspective is more marked in the US. Several areas of silence are also evident: little attention is given to feminist analysis or consideration of environmental issues, & there is almost no discussion of labor. 1 Appendix, 50 References. E. Munson

Publisher's PDF ; University of Delaware. Department of Political Science and International Relations.

Despite its importance in the global system, the literature provides little guidance on how treaty-making emerged as a well-accepted practice. In either assuming the appropriateness of treaty-making (and then analysing design) or treating treaties as strategic choices in the pursuit of gains (without analysing how treaties came to be a way to pursue gains), the current literature discounts the emergence and evolution of treaty-making. This lacuna contributes to a biased view of treaty-making as the epiphenomenal result of specific, ahistorical factors, rather than as a patterned, historical practice. We contend that the evolution of the practice of treaty-making is significant for questions of design/compliance, the future of multilateral interaction and global order. In addressing this concern, we pursue two linked goals. The first is self-consciously descriptive. We introduce a dataset of multilateral treaties that provides a novel picture of treaty-making across time, space and issue-areas. The second goal is explanatory. We develop and test a social constructivist and path-dependent explanation for the patterns of treaty-making evident in the data, especially 150 years of exponential growth, the spread of treaty-making across multiple issues and the diffusion of the practice across the world.