28 articles in this issue
Winter 2017 Issue
Sahan Savas Karatasli, Sefika Kumral
There is debate in the literature regarding whether China can become a new world hegemonic power in the 21st century. Most existing analyses focus on economic aspects of world hegemony-building processes and ignore its macro-political dimensions. This art... see more
Zhifan Luo
The decline of a hegemon can create openings for lesser powers to expand their influence in the world-system. Is this what China is currently attempting to do? This paper contributes to this on-going debate by examining China’s arms transfer activities fr... see more
Rebekah Burroway
Several dominant theoretical perspectives attempt to account for health disparities in developing countries, including political economy, the capability approach, and fundamental cause. This study combines the perspectives in a multi-level analysis of chi... see more
Jeb Sprague-Silgado
Jeffrey A. Ewing
The last few decades have seen the rise of ‘ecological modernization theory’ (EMT) as a “green capitalist” tradition extending modernization theory into environmental sociology. This article uses a synthesis of political economy, world-systems theory, and... see more
Patrick Ziltener, Daniel Künzler, André Walter
We present a new dataset with 15 indicators for the political, economic and social impact of colonialism. This dataset and our four indices for the impact of colonialism create for the first time the opportunity to compare directly the levels of colonial ... see more
Joel Stillerman
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Sarah Swider
Fabiola Mieres
Stephanie Luce
Jamie K. McCallum
A series of citations in the text were missing page numbers. There were a series of quotations in the original text from journal articles and books that have been changed to reflect the exact page that the author is referencing in the article. The author ... see more
Corrections have been made to the first page, including the two quotations that begin the article, and the first full paragraph. The original article can be found via the doi athttp://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2016.637