Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective Reflecting on Some Non-Rhetorical Questions

2002 ◽  
pp. 13-34
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Keyword(s):  
World Systems ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Rhetorical Questions

Rise and Fall

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-754 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn ◽  
E. Susan Manning ◽  
Thomas D. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Global System ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Early States ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Regional System

The world-systems perspective was invented for modeling and interpreting the expansion and deepening of the capitalist regional system as it emerged in Europe and incorporated the whole globe over the past 500 years (Wallerstein 1974; Chase-Dunn 1998; Arrighi 1994). The idea of a core/periphery hierarchy composed of “advanced” economically developed and powerful states dominating and exploiting “less developed” peripheral regions has been a central concept in the world-systems perspective. In the last decade the world-systems approach has been extended to the analysis of earlier and smaller intersocietal systems. Andre Gunder Frank and Barry Gills (1994) have argued that the contemporary global political economy is simply a continuation of a 5,000-year-old world system that emerged with the first states in Mesopotamia. Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas Hall (1997) have modified the basic world-systems concepts to make them useful for a comparative study of very different kinds of systems. They include very small intergroup networks composed of sedentary foragers, as well as larger systems containing chiefdoms, early states, agrarian empires, and the contemporary global system in their scope of comparison.

Crisis of What: The End of Capitalism or Another Systemic Cycle of Capitalist Accumulation?

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 13-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Systemic Crisis

AbstractIn this article I discuss the nature of the current global systemic crisis in order to evaluate the likelihood of several possible futures in the next few decades. Employing a comparative world historical and evolutionary world-systems perspective, I consider how the constellation of antisystemic movements and challenging regimes are similar to, or different from, the challengers in earlier crisis periods. I use a structural analysis of social change to assess the probabilities of different outcomes, while acknowledging that the future, like the past, is somewhat open-ended and the somewhat unpredictable actions of individuals and groups can shift the probabilities that we are trying to estimate.

The Development of World-Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn ◽  
Hiroko Inoue ◽  
Teresa Neal ◽  
Evan Heimlich
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Units Of Analysis ◽  
Hierarchical Relations ◽  
The Comparative Study

This essay discusses conceptual issues that arise from the study of human social change. The comparative and evolutionary world-systems perspective is explained as a theoretical research program for studying long-term social change. This approach employs an anthropological framework of comparison for studying world-systems, including those of hunter-gatherers. Problems of spatially bounding whole human interaction networks are addressed, and the utility of a comparative approach to the study of hierarchical relations among human polities (core/periphery relations) is examined. The hypothesis of semiperipheral development is explained, and criteria for empirically identifying semiperipheral regions are specified. World history and global history are the most important evidential bases, along with prehistoric archaeology, for the comparative study of world-systems. Getting the grounds of comparison right by correctly conceptualizing the spatial units of analysis and paying careful attention to core/periphery relations are crucial issues in the effort to comprehend and explain the development of world-systems.

Chichen Itza and Its Hinterland

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Kepecs ◽  
Gary Feinman ◽  
Sylviane Boucher
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Single Site ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Systems Framework ◽  
Chichen Itza

AbstractFor too long, Mayanists working in northern Yucatan have retained a focus on the single site. Although a few recent papers have begun to examine this area in regional terms, the world-systems perspective has yet to be applied. In this paper the world-systems framework is used to examine the post-Teotihuacan core center of Chichen Itza and its hinterland. Various lines of information are combined to achieve the fullest possible picture, including new settlement-pattern data, related ethnohistoric material, and a brief consideration of existing iconographie studies. Comparative examples from contemporary sites in other parts of Mesoamerica are provided to illustrate the systemic interconnections that characterize a “world system.”

scholarly journals O BRICS E O REORDENAMENTO DE PODER NA GEOPOLÍTICA MUNDIAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Pennaforte ◽  
Ricardo Luigi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International System ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World War ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Relative Decline ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
Do So

The two first decades of the 21 st Century were marked by the recrudescence of two powerhouses, Russia and China. Given their important role on global geopolitics, these two countries took advantage of the gaps resulted from yet another crisis on the structure of global capitalism, which influenced the relative decline of the United States capacity to impose its will on the international system as they had been able to do so since the end of World War II. This article’s objective is to analyze the global geopolitical rearrangement due to a weakened United States which opened the possibility for the BRICS nations to emerge as possible sources of power. To reinforce this analysis, the world-systems perspective, (here on referred to as WSP) elaborated mainly by Immanuel Wallerstein and Giovanni Arrighi is used, as well as a geopolitical approach to provide a link to international relations theories. Therefore, this paper is divided on to four sections. The first one interrelates the geopolitical theories and those of the WSP. The second section is guided towards understanding the origins and fundamentals of the WSP. On the third section, an approach is made towards the motivations and the effects of the rearrangement of power on the world’s geopolitics. Finally, on the last section, the roles and opportunities that have arisen from the emergence of the BRICS nations on the international system are presented.

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