Bøger af Christopher Chase-Dunn

Providing sweeping coverage, Global Struggles and Social Change is perfect for students and anyone interested in globalization, international and comparative politics, political sociology, and communication studies.

BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism.

Papers originally presented at a conference on Structures of the World Political Economy and Future Global Conflict and Cooperation, held in April of 2013 at the University of California-Riverside.

The fall of communism, the emergence of "the information age," and the expansion of economic globalism are the point of departure for this text. The author shows how these seemingly new developments fit with earlier patterns of global formation and change.

A study of hegeomy and the world-system from the premodern to the present. Contributors include Thomas Reifer and Giovanni Arrighi.

This book is a wide ranging and stimulating synthesis of the world-systems approach and its main findings. It covers parallel social processes in various regions which convincingly makes the argument that world-systems theory is able to integrate many diverse historical specializations.

A comparison of the modern global world system with earlier regional inter-societal systems. The book proposes an evolutionary theory that explains how myriad small-scale systems became unified into a single global system over the last 10,000 years.