The Modern World, or Interstate, System

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Malfred Gerig

Resumen. Este artículo tiene un doble objetivo. Por un lado, reconstruir los orígenes y dinámica de la economía política global de la coyuntura histórica vigente en la que se combinan: la belle epoque financiera del ciclo sistémico de acumulación estadounidense, el desplazamiento del núcleo de la economía global hacia Asia oriental, la disputa por la hegemonía del sistema interestatal devenido global y la disputa por otorgar sentido político a la crisis de la geocultura liberal. A partir de ese diagnóstico, se afirma que el moderno sistema mundial se encuentra ante una “crisis de príncipe” en la cual conservadores y radicales se disputan la hegemonía. El trabajo está dividido en tres partes. En primer lugar, se expone la dinámica que conformó la base material de la coyuntura histórica. En segundo lugar, se analizan las respuestas dadas por el giro conservador a la crisis de la geocultura liberal. Por último, se exponen las posibilidades de la política radical emancipatoria de hacer frente a la crisis de la geocultura liberal ante el fracaso del neoconservadurismo.This article has a double objective. On the one hand, to reconstruct the origins and dynamics of the global political economy of the current historical conjuncture in which they combine: the financial belle epoque of the systemic cycle of American accumulation, the displacement of the core of the global economy towards East Asia, the dispute over the hegemony of the interstate system, become global and the dispute over granting political meaning to the crisis of liberal geoculture. From that diagnosis, it is affirmed that the modern world system is facing a "prince crisis" in which conservatives and radicals dispute the hegemony. This work is divided in three parts. In first place, it exposes the dynamics that conformed the material base of the historical conjuncture. Secondly, the answers given by the conservative turn to the crisis of liberal geoculture are analyzed. Finally, it exposes the possibilities of radical emancipatory politics to face the crisis of liberal geoculture after the failure of neoconservatism.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Grant Kimberlin

With the passing of Immanuel Wallerstein, it is worthwhile to take note of his contribution to problematizing the unit of analysis. Rather than the states-as-containers interpretation, Wallerstein contributed that spatiotemporal units of analysis could be more meaningfully discussed in terms of their interactions within a larger system. The more well-known of his arenas are the axial division of labor (economic) and the interstate system (political). The third, the structures-of-knowledge methodology, aims to expand the “broadly cultural” arena as well. This paper will consider his project of reasserting agency through structural metanarrative with suggestions for ways to use his analysis to lend greater continuity to area-knowledge at a crucial time of transition.


2004 ◽  
pp. 153-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas D. Hall ◽  
James V. Fenelon

This paper explores the past, present, and future resistance of indigenous peoples to capitalist expansion. The central argument is that the survival of indigenous peoples, their identities, and their cultures, constitutes strong antisystemic resistance against global capitalism and against the deepening and the broadening of modern world-systemic or globalization processes. Furthermore, we argue that recent events often touted as turning points in history—the collapse of the Soviet Union, the 9-11 attack on the twin towers, and even the war on Iraq—are at most “blips on the radar” in a larger trajectory of change and resistance. Rather, the important features of indigenous survival are: (1) Indigenous peoples, despite an immense variety of forms of cultural and social organization, represent non-capitalist forms of organization. Their continued survival challenges the fundamental premises of capitalism and its increasingly global culture. (2) Indigenous people’s challenges to global domination succeed less on economic, political, or military force, and more as fundamental challenges to the underpinnings of the logic of capitalism and the interstate system. (3) In order to learn from these resistance models, it is necessary to ground our understanding in two seemingly antithetical forms of knowledge: (a) information arising from indigenous cultures and values and (b) research about how the longue duree of the world-system shapes the form and timing of such movements. (4) Indigenous successes may serve as models and/ or inspirations for other forms of resistance. An important task is to discover what is unique to indigenous resistance and to specify what indigenous resistance has in common with other forms of resistance.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Götz ◽  
Georgina Brewis ◽  
Steffen Werther
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2001 ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
Serhii Viktorovych Svystunov

In the 21st century, the world became a sign of globalization: global conflicts, global disasters, global economy, global Internet, etc. The Polish researcher Casimir Zhigulsky defines globalization as a kind of process, that is, the target set of characteristic changes that develop over time and occur in the modern world. These changes in general are reduced to mutual rapprochement, reduction of distances, the rapid appearance of a large number of different connections, contacts, exchanges, and to increase the dependence of society in almost all spheres of his life from what is happening in other, often very remote regions of the world.


2004 ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
V. Nimushin

In the framework of broad philosophic and historical context the author conducts comparative analysis of the conditions for assimilating liberal values in leading countries of the modern world and in Russia. He defends the idea of inevitable forward movement of Russia on the way of rationalization and cultivation of all aspects of life, but, to his opinion, it will occur not so fast as the "first wave" reformers thought and in other ideological and sociocultural forms than in Europe and America. The author sees the main task of the reformist forces in Russia in consolidation of the society and inplementation of socially responsible economic policy.


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