16 articles in this issue
 
Introduction to Summer 2016 issue by JWSR editorial team
Andrea Komlosy,Manuela Boatca,Hans-Heinrich Nolte
Introduction to Special Issue on Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World-System
Klemens Kaps
This article addresses the question of to what degree the concept of geoculture can be brought in line with research on Orientalist stereotypes and imaginary. Following Said’s original definition of orientalism discourses of the 18th-century political eco... see more
Agnes Gagyi
Joining a series of analyses of effects of othering, orientalism, or coloniality in East Central Europe, the paper asks how long-term structural-ideological effects of global hierarchies, as reflected in post-colonial contexts by the term “coloniality of ... see more
Lindsay Marie Jacobs,Ronan Van Rossem
This article sets out to critically assess the increasingly prevalent claims of rapidly changing global power relations under influence of the ‘rising powers’ and ‘globalization’. Our main contention is that current analyses of countries’ degree of global... see more
Pedro Antonio Vieira,Helton Ricardo Ouriques
In this paper we examine the BRICS by focusing on one of its member states: Brazil. More specifically, we focus on the relationship between Brazilian foreign policy under President Lula (2003-2010), U.S. hegemonic decline, and the commodity boom that prov... see more
Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland,Tim Lindgren
This article combines world-systems, decolonial, eco-feminist and post-human ecological approaches to deconstruct the planetary crisis of the hegemonic civilization. Underpinned by anthropocentric, androcentric, hetero-patriarchal, Euro/Western-centric, m... see more
Andrea Komlosy
The decline of the “West” and the loss of U.S. global hegemony is accompanied by a three-sided debate. Some scholars have argued that emerging powers in the Global South will succeed the United States and assume a hegemonic role in the world-economy. They... see more
Tanya Golash-Boza
In the spring of 2014, President Obama’s administration reached a landmark of over 2 million deportations—more in under six years than the sum total of all deportations prior to 1997. Mass deportation has not affected all communities equally: the vast maj... see more
Irene Pang
Recent literature on microfinance has observed that commercial microfinance programs that achieve financial sustainability largely fail to reach the poor (Hulme 2000; Mayoux 2000; Cull, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Morduch 2007). Most studies rely on institutional ... see more
P. Nick Kardulias,Emily Butcher
This article uses world-systems analysis to examine the role that pirates and privateers played in the competition between European core states in the Atlantic and Caribbean frontier during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Piracy was an integral ... see more
Aaron Major
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Kathleen Schwartzman
David Feldman
John Gerard Phyne
Derek Lee