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.

Geographic Perspectives on World-Systems Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Flint
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
World System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Politics Of Place ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
The World

World-systems theory is a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis. “World-system” refers to the inter-regional and transnational division of labor, which divides the world into core countries, semi-periphery countries, and the periphery countries. Though intrinsically geographical, world-systems perspectives did not receive geographers’ attention until the 1980s, mostly in economic and political geography. Nevertheless, geographers have made important contributions in shaping world-systems perspectives through theoretical development and critique, particularly in the understanding of urban processes, states, and geopolitics. The world-systems theory can be considered as a sub-discipline of the study of political geography. Although sharing many of the theories, methods, and interests as human geography, political geography has a particular interest in territory, the state, power, and boundaries (including borders), across a range of scales from the body to the planet. Political geography has extended the scope of traditional political science approaches by acknowledging that the exercise of power is not restricted to states and bureaucracies, but is part of everyday life. This has resulted in the concerns of political geography increasingly overlapping with those of other sub-disciplines such as economic geography, and, particularly, with those of social and cultural geography in relation to the study of the politics of place.

The Andalucia-Hawaii-Calitornia Migration: A Study in Macrostructure and Microhistory

1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverly Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Nation State ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Pull Factors ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The World

The development of world-systems theory enables us to explain human migration without resorting to the theoretically barren lists of “push-pull” factors and personal motivations that characterize previous studies. Although individuals still make private decisions to move, the patterned movement of groups is better understood as an essential component in a global economic order with shifting demands for labor. National migration policies can also be interpreted within this global context. Since migration plays a central role in moving workers to regions where their labor is needed, governmental legislation regulating these movements has reflected capitalists' needs for a free labor force. It is with this in mind that Aristide Zolberg summarizes the behavior of one nation-state in the world-system as “an element in the interest-calculus of others.”

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

Destabilizing the Semiperiphery: The Counterturn of China’s Ascendance in the World-Economy

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 365-385
Author(s):  
Vincent H. Shie ◽  
Chih-Yuan Weng
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Global Development ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Intermediate Group ◽  
The World ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
The Rise Of China

Abstract In an article in Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (PGDT), Kwangkun Lee revisits the debate on whether the semiperiphery is persistent or short-lived in the long-term historical structure. Lee concludes that semiperipheries only have a brief lifespan due to their (assumed) polarizing tendency. We provisionally agree with Lee’s conclusion, but we diverge in our reasoning for upholding this hypothesis. Proponents of the World-Systems Theory claim that an intermediate group of states stabilizes the world-economy. For instance, Giovanni Arrighi posits that the semiperiphery will be persistent in the longue durée. But in our view, the rise of China will ultimately destabilize the so-called constant stratum of the semiperiphery.

The World

2017 ◽  
pp. 65-99
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Model Classification ◽  
Economic Complexity ◽  
The World

We will now look at the general results from the ? model (developed in Chapter II). The chapter examines the overlap between the world-systems theory classification of core and periphery countries and the ? model classification of sink (economically efficient) and source (economically inefficient) countries. Core countries exhibit not only economic complexity but also complex institutions. However, some of these countries, such as Australia and Canada, are not economically efficient, mainly due to their large footprint and low population density. On the other hand, some semi-periphery countries, such as South Korea and Turkey, are economically efficient according to the model.

Editorial Introduction to the Symposium on Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Liam Campling
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
World System ◽  
Editorial Introduction ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World Systems Theory

AbstractGiovanni Arrighi (1937‐2009) was a leading figure in the development of world-systems theory and also contributed to a range of debates in Marxist thought. This symposium engages with Arrighi’s last book, Adam Smith in Beijing, which was the final instalment in his ‘trilogy’, following The Long Twentieth Century (1994) and Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (with Beverly Silver, 1999). This Editorial Introduction traces the broad trajectory of Arrighi’s ‘trilogy’ and its concern with systemic cycles of accumulation, highlights additional major contributions by Arrighi, and sketches some of the central arguments of the five symposium articles.<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN0">*</xref>

World Systems, Cores, and Peripheries in Prehistoric Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 378-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Harding
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Network Methods ◽  
The World ◽  
Systems View ◽  
The Bronze Age

The paper reviews the rise and utility of World Systems Theory in archaeology, with particular reference to Europe and the Bronze Age. After a consideration of its origins in the 1970s and 1980s, the main aspects of the theory are discussed. The evidence that shows that the Bronze Age world was highly interconnected is presented, and the implications of a World Systems view of the period considered. In an attempt to work towards a new narrative of the European Bronze Age, a brief discussion of network methods is introduced, since these offer an alternative, ‘bottom-up’, approach to the period which, it is argued, is more appropriate to the data than the World Systems approach.

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 Legitimation Crises in Premodern Worlds

1996 ◽  
pp. 254-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter N. Peregrine
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
North American ◽  
World System ◽  
World Systems ◽  
World System Theory ◽  
Pacific World ◽  
Legitimation Crisis ◽  
System Collapse ◽  
Starting Point

Scholars employing world-system theory have tended to examine how world-systemsdevelop and expand, while few have addressed the fragmentation or collapse of world-systems. This paper explores the conditions of world-system collapse using Habermas's concept of legitimation crisis as a starting point. The paper posits that legitimation crises are a recurring problem in world-systems and have led to collapse in a number of cases. Prehistoric North American and Pacific world-systems are used as examples.

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.

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