Bøger af Immanuel Wallerstein

Experts from various fields and many countries offer their views through this selection of articles constituting an international debate on inequality and development.

The years following 1945 witnessed a massive change in American intellectual thought and in the life of American universities. The essays in this text show the many ways existing disciplines were affected by the Cold War ethos, and discuss the rise of new fields, and the changing nature of dissent.

Argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This work offers a fresh conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.

Die erfolgreiche Einführung in die Welt-System-Analyse von Immanuel Wallerstein liegt nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor. Immanuel Wallerstein liefert eine prägnante und leicht zugängliche Einführung in den umfangreichen Ansatz der Welt-System-Analyse, den er selbst vor über vierzig Jahren auf den Weg brachte, um die Geschichte und die Entwicklung der modernen Welt zu erklären. Der Autor beschreibt die Wissensstrukturen und Mechanismen, auf denen das Welt-System basiert. Darüber hinaus zeigt er, welche Charakteristika die Welt-System-Analyse kennzeichnen: die Betonung von Welt-Systemen an Stelle von Nationalstaaten, die historischen Prozesse und deren Entfaltung über lange Zeiträume sowie die Integration von Wissensbeständen, die für gewöhnlich voneinander getrennt wahrgenommen werden ¿ wie historisches, politologisches, wirtschaftswissenschaftliches und soziologisches Wissen.Die Welt-System-Analyse hat sich als eine häufig genutzte Methode in den historischen Sozialwissenschaften etabliert und ist zu einem gebräuchlichen Referenzpunkt in Globalisierungsdiskussionen geworden.

Brilliant and timely study of the motivations behind Bush's response to terrorism.

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.

A succinct introduction to the history of capitalism by the renowned political theorist. In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years. Considering the way capitalism has changed and evolved over the centuries, and what has remained constant, he outlines its chief characteristics. In particular, he looks at the emergence and development of a world market, and of labor; in doing so, he argues that capitalism has brought about immiseration in the Global South. As long as they remain within a framework of world capitalism, Wallerstein concludes, the economic and social problems of developing countries will remain unresolved.Historical Capitalism, published here with its companion essayCapitalist Civilization, is a concise, compelling beginners' guide to one of the most challenging and influential assessments of capitalism as a world-historic mode of production.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This new volume encompasses the nineteenth century from the revolutionary era of 1789 to the First World War. In this crucial period, three great ideologies-conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism-emerged in response to the worldwide cultural transformation that came about when the French Revolution legitimized the sovereignty of the people. Wallerstein tells how capitalists, and Great Britain, brought relative order to the world and how liberalism triumphed as the dominant ideology.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Definitive survey of world-systems theory, including an in depth interview with Immanuel Wallerstein, its founder.

Provides an analysis of African politics during the period when the colonial system began to disintegrate. Written as Africa was just realizing independence and still reveling in the optimism it brought, this work also examines the African unity movement that arose between 1957 and 1965 and its revolutionary core.

What the post-Cold War world will look like.

An introduction to world systems analysis by its creator.

Develops a thorough-going critique of the legacy of nineteenth-century social science for social thought in the new millennium. This title demonstrates how the new insights lead to a revision of world-systems analysis.

Some of today's most prominent academics discuss the capitalist world economy.

Argues that Western intervention around the world has been justified by appeals to notions of civilisation, development and progress, that originate from sixteenth century debates on the ethics of the Spanish conquest of the Americas.

The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this ';lucid, informed, and insightful' account (The New York Times). The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control. The United States in decline? Its admirers and detractors alike claim the opposite: America is now in a position of unprecedented global supremacy. But in fact, Immanuel Wallerstein argues, a more nuanced evaluation of recent history reveals that America has been fading as a global power since the end of the Vietnam War, and its response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 looks certain to hasten that decline. In this provocative collection, the visionary originator of world-systems analysis and the most innovative social scientist of his generation turns a practiced analytical eye to the turbulent beginnings of the twenty-first century. Touching on globalization, Islam, racism, democracy, intellectuals, and the state of the left wing, Wallerstein upends conventional wisdom to produce a clear-eyedand troublingassessment of the crumbling international order. ';[Wallerstein's thought] provides a new framework for the subject of European history... it is compelling, a new explanation, a new classification, indeed a revolutionary one, of received knowledge and current thought.' Fernand Braudel