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As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world faces extraordinary system-level challenges--from deep inequality and xenophobic nationalism to militarism and neofascism, from the refugee crisis and environmental degradation to upsurges of social unrest and escalating rivalries among powerful states. This book begins from the premise that world-systems analysis can be a powerful tool for the study of these problems, with the potential to overcome the methodological and theoretical limitations of other social science perspectives. The editors argue, moreover, that world-systems analysis can be strengthened by drawing on its holistic methodologies, returning to its Third World roots, and learning from other critical approaches. The authors in this volume not only make important contributions to comparative and historical social science, they also bring a new vigor to the world-systems perspective. Facing critical junctures in both the "state of knowledge" and the "state of the world," this book demonstrates the continued utility of, and future possibilities for, world-systems analysis.

This paper describes the role played by anthropogenic ecological degradation in the evolution of world-systems over the past twelve thousand years. We have developed a conceptual apparatus for comparing workd-systems in order to better understand how fundamental transformations in systemic logic occur. When properlyconceptualized and bounded, we can compare earlier, smaller regional systems with the modem global system. This enables us to comprehend how the size and nature of world-systems have changed. Ourr model of world-systems evolution incorporates the important world of anthropologists on population pressure and ecological degradation. The expanding scale of world- systems corrceponds to the expanding scale of ecological degradation, so that, though institutional developments have temporarily overcome the constraints of demography and ecology, in the long run more complex systems face the same problems that smaller and simpler systems faced. Thus procsses of ecological depletion have long been central in the evolution of social structures and are likely to continue to be so in the future.

World-Systems Theory and Complexity Theory are siblings from the same parent of Von Bertalanffy's foundational work on general systems theory. But they were ideologically separated at birth. World-Systems emerged out of dependency theory, itself a product of and reaction to neocolonialism after World War Two. Wallerstein's historical analysis of the origins of unequal exchange in the "long" 16th C., first within Europe, and then encompassing its colonies, extended dependency theory's exposure of exploitation by demonstrating the systemic consistency of geopolitical parasitism well before the modern era. Christopher Chase-Dunn has furthered that insight by using empirical research on the unequal exchange between the earliest known polities. His work has additionally shown how the methods of cross-polity parasitism have changed over time, both creating and undermining the empires of history in response to changing ecological and climatic constraints. His work also shows how systemic change often starts in the creative conditions unique to semiperipheries. The other child of general systems theory evolved in the worlds of physics and computer science, becoming known first as Chaos and later Complexity theory. It too expanded, demonstrating that positive causal feedback loops of energy and information could explain the life-processes of biology and evolutionary theory. Given their common ancestry and attention to the flows of energy and information, their re-connection was inevitable. This paper seeks to merge them. The approach will be to use complexity to explain how entropy builds structures on a physical level, then how those same dynamics created life, drove evolution, and continue to drive social complexity from our nomadic roots to our current global strife. The work of Chase-Dunn will be shown as logically consistent with complexity theory, and ideally a marriage of the traditions completed. As a former student and life-long colleague of Chase-Dunn's, the author is also paying homage while pointing a way forward.

As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, the world faces extraordinary system-level challenges--from deep inequality and xenophobic nationalism to militarism and neofascism, from the refugee crisis and environmental degradation to upsurges of social unrest and escalating rivalries among powerful states. This book begins from the premise that world-systems analysis can be a powerful tool for the study of these problems, with the potential to overcome the methodological and theoretical limitations of other social science perspectives. The editors argue, moreover, that world-systems analysis can be strengthened by drawing on its holistic methodologies, returning to its Third World roots, and learning from other critical approaches. The authors in this volume not only make important contributions to comparative and historical social science, they also bring a new vigor to the world-systems perspective. Facing critical junctures in both the "state of knowledge" and the "state of the world," this book demonstrates the continued utility of, and future possibilities for, world-systems analysis.

Welcome to the Journal of World-Systems Research. This is our first "batch" of articles and book reviews. Electronic journals do not have issues as print journals do. Rather articles will usually be added to the journal individually as they become ready for publication. Volume 1 will be composed of all those articles that will be published in 1995. Each article has its own unique Number. Future articles will be added to the Volume as they become available, though we may again produce more "batches" in connection

This paper focuses upon one small region of World-Systems Theory (wst) but one that is important for analysis of the contemporary world: the dynamics of intra-core relations.I will try to address three questions: 1. Does the wst theory of the historically cyclical patterns of intra-core relations provide us with a persuasive framework for understanding contemporary core dynamics? 2. More specifically can the reach and depth of the power of the United States within the contemporary core be captured by wst's theory of capitalist hegemons and their rise and decline? 3. Is wst's insistence that its concept of core-wide world empires cannot be established in the modern world system valid? In addressing these issues, I will begin by outlining the general approach of wst to the analysis of intra-core relations, focusing in particular upon wst's concept of core hegemons and their rise and fall. I will then look at the arguments of wst as to why a capitalist world empire is impossible. I will then go on to examine how we might conceive of the victory of a World-Empire. And I will then turn to examine the contending situation and the character of the power of the US today.

The article deals with the relationship of such concepts as the world-system and civilisation, both living independently and co-existing in time and space. World-systems and civilisations may be forced to unite into hyper-systems, or world-empires of different kind—self-sufficient, militarist-parasitic, and mixed type. Militarist empires-parasites can be settled and nomadic. Nomadic or bivouac empires are empires-armies, which exist only in movement. Stopping leads either to the death of the empire-army, or to the transformation into one but usually several stationary empires, mostly also militarist-parasitic.

ÖZETBu çalışma küreselleşme ile ilgili genel yaklaşımları inceleyerek bu yaklaşımlar içerisinde Dünya-sistem yaklaşımının görüşlerini ele almaktadır. Küreselleşme kavramı çerçevesinde Dünya-sistem teorisyenleri yaşamın farklı boyutlarını ele alarak, bu boyutlarda tarih boyunca yaşanan değişimleri inceleyip, bu alanlarda muhtemel gelişmelerin neler olabileceği yansıtmıştır. Dünya-sistem teorisyenlerinin dayandığı üç temel düşünce geleneği olan Marksist okul, Annales okulu ve bağımlılık teorisyenlerinin temel görüşleri incelenerek bu yaklaşımın tahlillerinin iyi bir şekilde kavranılmasına yardımcı olunmuştur. Bu köklerin üzerine kurulan Dünya-sistem yaklaşımının temel prensipleri incelenmiş ve olaylara yaklaşımı yansıtılmaya çalışılmıştır. İkinci bölümde muhtelif küreselleşme tanımları yapılmış ve bu tanımlardan sonra küreselleşme olarak adlandırılan olgunun gözlenebilen belli başlı boyutları -ekonomik, siyasal, kültürel, çevresel- hakkında ortaya atılan farklı görüşlere değinilmiştir. Bu görüşlerden küreselleşme yanlıları ve küreselleşme karşıtlarının fikirleri genel olarak incelenmiştir. Bu incelemelerin akabinde dünya-sistem düşünürlerinin küreselleşme tanımı ve yukarıda bahsedilen boyutlara yaklaşımı ele alınarak diğer yaklaşımlarla farklılıkları ortaya konmuştur. Sonuç olarak küreselleşmenin dünyamızı nasıl bir geleceğe doğru yönelttiği sorusunun cevabı karşılaştırmalı olarak verilmeye çalışılmıştır. SUMMARYThis study examines different approaches on the globalization issue and focuses on the world-system intellectual's ideas. World-systems theorists examine different dimensions of life and follow adventure of them during the history. Three intellectual schools Marxism, Annales and Dependency have been examined to understand better world-systems approach. In the second chapter different globalization definitions has been given and economic, political, cultural environmental dimensions of globalization has been discussed depending on these definitions. Among these ideas both anti-globalist and globalist ideas has been examined. Then ideas of world-systems thinkers have been written and their projections about future have been reflected. In the conclusion part the question of what type of a future we will face of is tried to be answer.

The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis -- The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis -- Contents -- Introduction: Fernand Braudel, the Longue Durée, and World-Systems Analysis -- The Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-History -- History and Geography: Braudel's "Extreme Longue Durée" as Generics? -- Dutch Capitalism and Europe's Great Frontier: The Baltic in the Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century -- The Semiproletarian Household over the Longue Durée of the Modern World-System -- In the Short Run Are We All Dead? A Political Ecology of the Development Climate -- The Longue Durée and the Status of "Superstructures" -- Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the Longue Durée, 1250-1700 -- Long-Term Problems for the Longue Durée in the Social Sciences -- Journalism, History, and Eurocentrism: Longue Durée and the Immediate in Braudel and Wallerstein -- Appendix: History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée -- Index

AbstractGiovanni Arrighi's last book is compared with Andre Gunder Frank's Re-Orient. The implications of Arrighi's study of the East/West-comparison for comprehending world-historical evolution and the political issues of the current conjuncture are considered.

World-systemic processes of capital accumulation are inextricably intermeshed with ecology. Not only do they have obvious repercussions on landscapes and ecosystems ( e.g., erosion, deforestation), but they are also fundamentally dependent on ecological aspects such as topsoil, forests, or minerals. The analytical disjunction of ecology and economics is a persistent feature of modern science. The minority of researchers who have seriously tried to integrate them in a common theoretical framework (cf. Martinez-Alier 1987) have run into major, conceptual difficulties. This paper addresses some of the issues raised in an attempt to ground the notion of capital accumulation in the physical realities of ecology and thermodynamics.