Journal of World-Systems Research  

Editors introduction to Journal of World-Systems Research Vol. 27, No. 2 Summer/Autumn 2021

Nandita Sharma

Bridget Anderson

Martina Tazzioli

Victoria Hattam

Radhika Mongia

Zachary Levenson

Rinaldo Walcott

Tomaso Ferrando, Gabriela De Oliveira Junqueira, Marcela Vecchione-Gonçalves, Iagê Miola, Flávio Marques Prol, Hector Herrera

Green bonds represent an increasingly popular way to match “environmental sustainability,” growth, and the aspirations of global financial capital. In this article, we leverage a world-ecology approach to unpack and make sense of green bonds as public/pri... see more

John Peter Antonacci

Lewis and Maslin explore geological markers for the beginning of the “Anthropocene”-beginning, in their periodization, in either 1492 (naming the birth of capitalism as the cause of planetary crisis) or 1945 (naming elite-driven militarization as its caus... see more

Zachary Lavengood

Daniel Blinder, Lautaro Zubeldía, Sofya Surtayeva

The  SARS-CoV-2 pandemic  has disturbed the order of the world-system. While central countries—through their pharmaceutical multinationals—focused on the development of  vaccines, semi-peripheral and peripheral countries fulfill another rol... see more

Lipon Mondal

One particular focus of world-systems analysis is to examine the historical trajectory of capitalist transformation in peripheral regions. This paper investigates the capitalist transformation in a specific peripheral area—the country of Bangladesh. In pa... see more

Omer Awass

This essay takes modern world-system theory and maps it into a political-economic field of power. This re-modeling of the theory better illustrates the diffuseness and the spatiality of the operations of global forces; thus, helping us have a greater appr... see more

Salimah Valiani

This article presents theoretical and methodological insights of world-systems analysis via the works of Samir Amin and his major interlocuteurs. It is argued that Samir Amin was central to sparking the study of world historical analysis, and offered uniq... see more

Corey R. Payne