Journal of World-Systems Research  

 

N/A

Paul K Gellert,R. Scott Frey,Harry F Dahms

N/A

Mark D. Noble

-

Kent Henderson,Kristen Shorette

Environmental sociologists highlight the exploitative nature of the global capitalist economy where resource extraction from nations in the periphery tends to disproportionately benefit those of the core. From the Brazilian Amazon to mineral-rich Sub-Saha... see more

John Hamilton Bradford,Alexander M. Stoner

This article analyzes a unique panel data set to assess the effect of militarism on per capita carbon dioxide emissions.   We extend previous research examining the effects of military expenditures on carbon emissions by including in our analyses over 30 ... see more

Kelly F. Austin

This study represents a qualitative case study examining the broad impacts of coffee cultivation from a rural region in Eastern Uganda, the Bududa District. Over 20 interviews with coffee cultivators provide insights into how the coffee economy impacts ge... see more

Raja Swamy

This article examines the relationship between humanitarian aid and ecologically unequal exchange in the context of post-disaster reconstruction. I assess the manner in which humanitarian aid became a central part of the reconstruction process in India's ... see more

David Ciplet,J. Timmons Roberts

The article examines the changing nature of politics in the United Nations climate negotiations through the lens of ecologically unequal exchange theory, focusing on the lead up to and aftermath of the 2015 Paris negotiations. We identify and discuss thre... see more

Wilma A. Dunaway,Donald A. Clelland

While there has been much attention to the economic, political, and transformative potential of the semiperiphery, scholars have failed to explore the ways in which this zone of the world-system causes, contributes to, and exacerbates world ethnic/racial ... see more

Manuela Boatca

While I agree, and have previously argued myself that closer attention should be paid to semiperipheries in terms of their transformative potential, I consider the claim that nonwestern semiperipheries exacerbate and even cause racial/ethnic inequality mi... see more

Jamil Khader

N/A

Ana Saggioro Garcia

What has historically been the role of the nonwestern semiperiphery (what was it expected to do and what did it really do) and how has this role changed in recent years? In their article “Moving toward Theory for the 21st Century: The Centrality of Nonwes... see more

Howard Winant

N/A

Wilma A. Dunaway,Donald A. Clelland

N/A

Hanne Cottyn

This paper proposes a world-systems frontier perspective by approaching frontiers and frontier zones as analytical tools in indicating and understanding the uneven local-global interactions underlying world-systemic incorporation processes. It argues that... see more

Ryan P Thombs

This cross-national study employs a time-series cross-sectional Prais-Winsten regression model with panel-corrected standard errors to examine the relationship between renewable energy consumption and economic growth, and its impact on total carbon dioxid... see more

Jeffrey Kentor

N/A

John W. Meyer

Reflections on Chris Chase-Dunn's career

Albert J. Bergesen

N/A

Andrew Jorgenson

N/A

Michael Timberlake

N/A

Jennifer Bair,Marion Werner

N/A

Valentine M. Moghadam

N/A

Ho-Fung Hung

N/A

Jonathan H. Turner

World-system dynamics are re-conceptualized as inter-societal systems with some de-emphasis on the notions of core, periphery, and semi-periphery.  This tri-part division has been useful in forcing sociology to rethink macro-level sociological analysis an... see more

Peter E Grimes

World-Systems Theory and Complexity Theory are siblings from the same parent of Von Bertalanffy’s foundational work on general systems theory.  But they were ideologically separated at birth. World-Systems emerged out of dependency theory, itself a produc... see more

Christopher Chase-Dunn

N/A

Michael Schwartz

N/A

Sung Hee Ru

This is a book which invites us to reconsider what we thought we knew and understood about a Europe’s rise. It examines the historical origin of Europe’s capitalism in the growing call for internationality that can explain the uneven and combined historie... see more

Marisa Von Bulow

N/A

Marion Werner

N/A

Mulatu Amare Desta

The book examines the major cases and policy initiatives of International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) in the post-Washington consensus. The IMF policy reform invites scholarly debate, different theoretical explanation an... see more