21 articles in this issue
Anouar Abdel-Malek
The historical moment of the position of the problem, from the onset, leads to the heart of the sudden perplexity about the nature, rôle and prospect of the civilizational question in our times. While the very category of civilization was avoided until re... see more
Samir Amin
In the prevailing discourse, market and democracy are credited with such a strong unity it almost appears impossible to separate the two. The market is considered a manifest condition of democracy, the latter inexorably bound up with the former. Neither t... see more
Orlando Fals Borda
The great American sociologist C. Wright Mills noted in 1959 that in our time the problems of Western societies are almost inevitably universal problems (Mills 1959:164-180). He already spoke of postmodernity and pointed his ?nger to one of the foremost c... see more
Jonathan Friedman
The work of Immanuel Wallerstein has been criticized by certain anthropologists for not having taken culture into proper account. He has been accused of the sin of political economy, a not uncommon accusation, a re?ex of the 80s and post-80s anthropologic... see more
Pablo González Casanova
Al iniciar el recorrido, Wallerstein sostiene dos tesis principales: que la historia está abierta, y que vivimos una etapa en que el determinismo disminuye. En un caso enfrenta las tesis de una historia clausurada, en otro, la de un futuro sin alternativa... see more
Phillip McMichael
When Immanuel Wallerstein (1974) subverted the mid-1970s social science scene with his concept of the world-system, development, the master concept of social theory, suffered a fatal blow. Wallersteins critique of development emphasized its misapplication... see more
Daniel Singer
There are fashionable terms that are at once misleading and revealing. The third way is one of them. There was a time when this concept had a genuine meaning. Back in the 1950s, for the so-called revisionists in Eastern Europe it spelled the search for de... see more
Teivo Teivainen
A concern for the possible futures of the modern world-system has been a recurrent theme of world-systems analysis. There has, however, been relatively little effort to think about these futures in terms of democratic theory. In this article, I will explo... see more
Claudia von Werlhof
At the 1985 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Washington, I had, at the invitation of Immanuel Wallerstein, the opportunity to present my theses on the subject Why Peasants and Housewives do not Disappear in the Capitalist World S... see more
Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas
Since 1968, it has been apparent that the entire system of branches of knowledge regarding the social domain, which dated from 1870 to 1968, has entered into a total and irreversible crisis. Established in the last third of the nineteenth century, and hav... see more
Su-Hoon Lee
The once highly lauded East Asian Miracle turned sour after some East Asian economies, together with Southeast Asian countries, suffered from currency and ?nancial crisis in 1997. It triggered a great deal of discussion of what both local and foreign anal... see more
Richard E. Lee
From the beginning of the long sixteenth century, the practices of knowledge production took the form of a complex of processes which produced over time an intellectual and institutional hierarchy within which authoritative knowledge was progressively def... see more
Roberto Briceño-León,Heinz R. Sonntag
During his intellectual and academic life, Immanuel Wallerstein always makes contributions that are the subject of intense debate and controversy. Now he has given us, as an additional legacy to complete his four years of brilliant, hard, andwhy not?contr... see more
Orlando Lentini
Liberalism is a system of norms and values elaborated by the European world-economy in the course of its constitutive process. It is a matter of organizational principles determining the acting subject, economic action, the state and, the entire picture o... see more
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
On est aujourdhui en passe, grâce aux efforts de générations dhistoriens, au Burkina comme ailleurs en Afrique, de dresser un tableau déjà à fort complet, même sil y a encore beaucoup à faire, de lhistoire ancienne des groupes, des communautés. On a bien ... see more
Jose Maria Tortosa
El primer propósito de este capítulo es el de explorar algunas de las formas en que el enfoque de los sistemas-mundo puede ser aplicado a un campo aparentemente distante como es el de la investigación para la paz. La razón es sencilla: se parte de que el ... see more
Johan Gartung
The world is a system, meaning inter-connected, with inter- connections among the inter-connections. But what are the inter-connected, related components, units, elements, in this set? Obviously they are the triad of modernity: states, corporations, civil... see more
Ari Sitas
It was only used for the special gatherings to taste the fruit of the harvest. The pot was made of dark clay and decorated with intricate light-blue lines. Each line, the elders explained, told a story. And in those gatherings everything was solvedthe hur... see more
Ilya Prigogine
It is a great privilege to participate in the Festschrift honoring ImmanuelWallerstein. I am very grateful to Professor Wallerstein for having recog-nized in my work in physics and chemistry aspects which may be of interest for history and sociology.
Alaine Touraine
So little agreement exists on what constitutes sociology that it seems impossible to de?ne its speci?c methods. We can however proceed through a series of eliminations. Light has been shed on many types of social behavior as economic studies have taken mo... see more
Pierre Dockès
Le pouvoir est-il un concept mal dé? ni, polymorphe (voire amorphe [Weber 1978:53]) et, ? nalement, "un concept décevant" (March 1966: 70; 1988:6; Williamson 1985:237; 1996:39, 238-9)? Il n'est, en effet, que rarement pris en compte centralement par la th... see more