How Can Three Questions on Modernity Be Answered? The World-System Theory and Japanese Experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Nobuyuki Yamada
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World System ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
The World

The World-System Theory of Oliver C. Cox

1985 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert M. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World System ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
The World

scholarly journals THE FUTURE OF W. WARREN WAGAR

1996 ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
Short History ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World

In his fascinat ing book "A Short History of the Future," published in 1992, W. Warren Wagar lays out a futuristic vision of the world over the next two hundred years that draws extensively on Inunanuel Wallerstein' s world-system theory. In the year 2001 began the last of the great Kondratieff upswings of the capitalist world-economy. That economy had come to be increasingly dominated by a few giant corporations, so that by 2015 12 "megacorps" had assumed control of the world-economy and thegovernments of the major capitalist powers. The Kondratieff upswing ran its course by the early 2030s and then a devastating worldwide depression set in, the lowest point of which was reached in 2043.

scholarly journals American World Empire or Declining Hegemony

2004 ◽  
pp. 516-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Boswell
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
Fundamental Assumption ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

Gowan challenges the usefulness of world-system theory in accounting for the emergence of an American world empire. His argument is based on one fundamental assumption, that of overwhelming U.S. power in the contemporary period. The assumption, however, is flawed. The U.S. is clearly an uncontested military superpower, a world leader with the ability to project its power and interests around the world. But its economic hegemony is in decline, and it is no longer the overwhelming presence it once was in the world-economy. Moreover, Gowan is unable to support his thesis that the U.S. is becoming an empire over Europe. Although the U.S. occupation and administration of Iraq is an example of colonial imperialism, there is no evidence to show that the U.S. has begun to establish a core-wide empire. On the contrary, U.S. political control over Europe has declined to its lowest level in the post-WWII period. The persuasiveness of world-system theory in explaining the changing global political economy remains strong.

scholarly journals Reconstruction of the world-system theory in the context of the integration processes of modern Eurasia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Alexandrovich Obukhov ◽  
Nikita Vladimirovich Golovko
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World System ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Verdenssamfunnet

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
Sverre Moe
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
World System ◽  
World Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
The World

The world society If we live in the world society, this must be the only society existing on earth today encompassing all kinds of social life on the globe; hence the ultimate reference of any sociological theory. It is no wonder then that most social theorists avoid the notion of a world society and prefer to speak in terms of ‘internationalisation’ and ‘globalization’. The article discusses four theories of the world society: functionalism (Parsons), world-system-theory (Wallerstein), neo-institutionalism (Thomas Meyer, etc.) and the theory of autopoietic social systems (Luhmann). The article argues that Luhmann managed to speak of a world society without merely reproducing traditional notions of society that imply homogeneity, unity, equality and centrality (as the other theories tend to do). In Luhmann’s view society must be understood in terms of communication, evolution and differentiation. Thus the world society is a functionally differentiated society that makes it possible to connect and synchronize communication anywhere on the globe with communication anywhere else. Luhmann’s notion of the world society should however be debated. For instance one can ask if he is emptying the concept of a “society” or how he can speak of the world society as a system.

scholarly journals Commentary on "Leadership, Production, and Exchange: An Evaluation of World-Systems Theory in a Global Context"

1996 ◽  
pp. 444-455
Author(s):  
Darrell Lalone
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
World System ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Global Context ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
The World ◽  
Intersocietal Interaction

As we expand and extend our applications of world-system theory, as we explore the shifting interplay between cores and peripheries, as we see boundaries emerge and dissolve, we also fix world-systems theory itself on the map table. What is its core? What are its peripheries, or would it claim that all human interactions fall within its sway?Thomas Hall, for example, does not take quite the entire map, but takes "intersocietal interaction" as the world-systems domain.

Auf dem Weg zur finalen Krise des Kapitalismus?

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (139) ◽  
pp. 267-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Heigl
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
System Approach ◽  
World System ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Informal Imperialism

Once again, imperialism is the subject of critical debate. Amongst the contributions to this debate, we find approaches as different as Empire (Hardt/Negri), informal imperialism (Panitch/Gindin) or works from a worldsystem perspective (Arrighi, Chase-Dunn and Wallerstein). The article intends to explore impulses offered by the world-system approach to the current debate on imperialism and deliver a critical assessment of new works in the field of world-system theory. It is argued that major problems of the new works of world-system theory consist in insufficient foundations of their basic theoretical assumptions (economic and hegemonic cycles) and often in a fixation on the approaching final crisis of capitalism.

Graduate employment in higher education: applying bibliometrics to world-system theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Meihua Zhu ◽  
Chao-Yu Guo ◽  
Angela Yung-Chi Hou ◽  
Mei-Shiu Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
System Theory ◽  
World System ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
Graduate Employment

scholarly journals WORLD-SYSTEM THEORY OF WALLERSTEIN AND THE FATE OF THE SYSTE

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (33) ◽  
pp. 52-67
Author(s):  
В. Попков
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
World System ◽  
World System Theory
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