16 articles in this issue
Shimshon Bichler, Jonathan Nitzan
The recent shift from global villageism to the new wars revealed a deep crisis in heterodox political economy. The popular belief in neoliberal globalization, peace dividends, fiscal conservatism and sound finance that dominated the 1980s and 1990s sudden... see more
Satoshi Ikeda
Japans trajectory under globalization is critically reviewed using the world-system perspective and the methodology of historical sociology. The Japanese miracle in the post-war period was a result of interplay between world-systemic opportunities and int... see more
Jonathan Leitner
The Calumet & Hecla Copper Company was a firm funded by core capital, but operating in an internal periphery (Michigans Upper Peninsula), and eventually subject to peripheral constraints, along with the constraints of the physical environment, the physica... see more
Thomas E. Reifer
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Peter Gowan
This paper focuses upon one small region of World-Systems Theory (wst) but one that is important for analysis of the contemporary world: the dynamics of intra-core relations.I will try to address three questions: 1. Does the wst theory of the historically... see more
John Gulick
This paper evaluates Peter Gowans musings on the topic of a U.S.-centered capitalist world-empire. Gowans heterodox concept of a capitalist world-empire is intellectually defensible. And his claim that U.S. hegemony is historically unique, because unlike ... see more
Terry Boswell
Gowan challenges the usefulness of world-system theory in accounting for the emergence of an American world empire. His argument is based on one fundamental assumption, that of overwhelming U.S. power in the contemporary period. The assumption, however, i... see more
Giovanni Arrighi
Capitalism is the first and only historical social system that has become truly global in scale and scope. Mapping this transformation over time is a particularly challenging task. Without some theoretical guidance in the selection of the networks to be m... see more
John Agnew
Mamadi Matlhako
Denis O?Hearn
Thomas P. Roberts
Denis Yükseker
Sean Ó?Riain
Dag Macleod
Leslie C. Gates