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THE MODERN WORLD‐SYSTEM: SOME CONSEQUENCES OF RECENT CHANGES AND THE POSSIBLE FUTURE
Since the publication of Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World‐System in 1974, world‐systems theory has become a prominent explanatory framework for both political and economic…
THE RISE OF EAST ASIA: WORLD SYSTEMIC AND REGIONAL ASPECTS
Giovanni ArrighiThe rise of East Asia to most dynamic center of processes of capital accumulation on a world scale is a phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s. As a first approximation, the extent of…
A SOCIAL NETWORK ANALOGY DEPICTS INTERSTATE FACTORS EFFECTING THE DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION
Shawn McEnteeThis paper uses a social network approach to explore converging world‐systems hypotheses regarding the effects of increasing integration of socialist countries into the capitalist…
U.S.‐MEXICO TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON SMALL‐SCALE ENTERPRISES IN TWO DISTINCT REGIONS: WEST CENTRAL MEXICO AND THE TEXAS BORDER REGION COMPARED
David SpenerAs has been widely recognized in the literature, the post‐war economic boom which drew to a close by the early 1970s has been followed by an intense period of industrial…
THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD‐SYSTEM
Terry BoswellGlobal cycles of leadership and hegemony have repeated since 1492, leaving to history Dutch, British, and now declining US hegemonies. Theoretical models (Chase‐Dunn and Rubinson…
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