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Volume 25 Number 2 Year 2019

31 articles in this issue 

 

Editors' introduction to Summer/Fall 2019 issue

Pags. 242 - 246  

Samir Amin

Amin argues that “[w]e are now in the phase of the ‘autumn of capitalism’ without this being strengthened by the emergence of ‘the people’s spring’ and a socialist perspective. …There is no alternative other than that enabled by a renewal of the internati... see more

Pags. 247 - 253  

Boris Kagarlitsky

Kagarlitsky argues, “The global defeat of the left has stimulated rapid corruption and degradation of the capitalist classes and, as a result, has aggravated all the contradictions and problems that the system faces. The collapse of the left movement has ... see more

Pags. 254 - 258  

Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond provides a biography of Amin’s work as a global political thinker and leader on the left. From his early days building the Third World Forum and establishing “origins of a South-centric organic intelligentsia with global visions” to his work ... see more

Pags. 259 - 269  

Valentine M. Moghadam

In his prodigious output, from works on capitalist development to analyses of Islamist movements to involvement in the World Social Forum, Samir Amin’s was a consistent voice for struggle against capitalism’s domination of the world and its peoples. ... see more

Pags. 270 - 279  

Biko Agozino

Agozino supports Amin’s call for a Fifth International, but offers suggestions to make it more inclusive. He argues “It is not enough for the Fifth International to call on Workers of the World to Unite without questioning the extent to which racism, impe... see more

Pags. 280 - 288  

William I. Robinson

Robinson concurs with Amin’s centering of the problem of extreme concentration of capital and the centralization of power worldwide. However, he critiques Amin’s “tenacious nation-state/interstate framework,” arguing for an approach that transcends state-... see more

Pags. 289 - 296  

Leslie Sklair

Like Robinson, Sklair is critical of Amin's state-centrism, and he sees the international system of hierarchical states: “The power of capitalist hegemony today is so overwhelming (allied as it is with the military and police powers of states) that the on... see more

Pags. 297 - 305  

Sahan Savas Karatasli

In his essay, “It is imperative to reconstruct the Internationale of workers and peoples”,  Samir Amin (2018) suggested that in order to “deconstruct the extreme centralization of wealth and the power that is associated with the [capitalist world] sy... see more

Pags. 306 - 320  

Owen Worth

Worth welcomes Amin’s call for a renewal of Internationalism, but he is critical of the “significant shortcoming of understanding an internationalist strategy around a traditional collection of national struggles.” Recalling Rosa Luxemburg’s contributions... see more

Pags. 321 - 328  

Francine Mestrum

Mestrum draws from her extensive experience in the World Social Forum process to outline some of the reasons for past failures of left struggles to come together around the kind of fifth Internationale Amin proposes. A new Internationale, she argues “will... see more

Pags. 329 - 335  

Bonn Juego

Juego argues that the new Internationale’s “primary organizational function should be the global coordination of actions of progressive grassroots movements from country to country.” He calls for a ‘learning organization,’ where the new Internationale sup... see more

Pags. 336 - 344  

Rebecca Álvarez,Christopher Chase-Dunn

This article takes up Samir Amin’s challenge to rethink the issue of global political organization by proposing the building of a diagonal political organization for the Global Left that would link local, national and world regional and global networks an... see more

Pags. 345 - 364  

Paul Almeida

Samir Amin’s final essay called for the creation of a new international organization of progressive social forces. This essay provides evidence from twenty-first century transnational movements on the likelihood of the emergence of such an international o... see more

Pags. 365 - 372  

Christopher Chase-Dunn,John Aldecoa,Ian Breckenridge-Jackson,Joel S. Herrera

Anarchists have played a visible and significant role in global civil society since the 19th century and in the New Global Left since it emerged in the 1990s. Horizontalism and social libertarianism have been central components of the contemporary World R... see more

Pags. 373 - 394  

Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz,Corey R Payne

Recent literature in the world-systems perspective has refocused attention on questions of ‘core’ and ‘periphery’ in historical capitalism, yet rarely critically examines the underlying assumptions regarding these zones. Drawing on a developing dataset on... see more

Pags. 395 - 419  

Aaron Major,Zhifan Luo

In recent years China has positioned itself as a global economic leader, working through its “Belt and Road” initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), to not only expand its global economic reach, but to organize and lead global ec... see more

Pags. 420 - 448  

Patrick Manning,Yu Liu

This study explores data on the Atlantic slave trade through a revised framework, focusing not simply on voyages of individual slave ships but on aggregating them by route, linking an African region of departure with an American region of arrival. The res... see more

Pags. 449 - 466  

 

Volume 25(1) of the Journal of World-Systems Research initially included a review by Jeb Sprague of Marion Werner’s Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean, DOI 10.5195/JWSR.2019.920. Because the book review editor decided ... see more

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