6 articles in this issue
Eric H. Cline
The term contested periphery was recently coined by Mitchell Allen for use in his 1997 UCLA dissertation concerned with Philistia, the Neo-Assyrians, and World systems theory (Allen 1997: 49-51, 320-21, Fig. 1.4; cf. also Berquist 1995a, 1995b). Allen ide... see more
Peter Wilkin
There are good grounds for taking seriously Wallerstein's dictum that the world system has entered what he describes as an interregnum. By this he means two important things: First, that the world is moving between two forms of world system, from a capita... see more
Darrell LaLone
This paper examines how different power strategies have been playedover the course of the three-thousand year Andean civilization. In broad terms, the power strategies center on ideological, economic, and military power (Mann 1986; Earle 1997). The case m... see more
Aonghas St.-Hilaire
The Maroons of Suriname enter the twenty-? rst century as the only surviving, culturally and politically autonomous Maroon communities in the Americas. The paper adopts a world-systems approach to explain the evolution of the Surinamese Maroon nations vis... see more
Jason W. Moore
Alf Hornborg says many useful things in his article, Ecosystems and World Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process. His effort to ground the notion of capital accumulation in the physical realities of ecology and thermodynamics is a much-needed corr... see more
Cynthia M. Hewitt