The Essential Wallerstein

by Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

Overview

Immanuel Wallerstein is one of the most innovative social scientists of his generation. Past president of the International Sociological Association, he has had a major influence on the development of social thought throughout the world, and his books are translated into every major language. The Essential Wallerstein brings together for the first time the full range of his scholarship.This comprehensive collection of essays offers a unique overview of this seminal thinker's work, showing the development of his thought: from his groundbreaking research on contemporary African politics and social change, to his study of the modern world-system, to his current essays on the new structures of knowledge emerging from the crisis of the capitalist world-economy. His singular focus on the way in which change in one part of the globe affects the whole is all the more relevant as the world grows increasingly interdependent. The Essential Wallerstein is an ideal introduction to the extensive body of work from a thinker who helped introduce globally sensitive thinking to the field of social science.

This is the first in a series of Readers bringing together the key works of major figures in the social sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781565845930
Publisher:	New Press, The
Publication date:	05/01/2000
Series:	New Press Essential
Pages:	471
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Immanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scholar in the department of sociology at Yale Universityand director emeritus of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. He is also a resident researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. His many books include The Modern World-System and Historical Capitalism. The New Press has published After Liberalism, The Decline of American Power, and a collection of his works, The Essential Wallerstein. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and Paris, France.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction: The lessons of the 1980s	1
I.	Geopolitics: post-America
1	North Atlanticism in decline	19
2	The Reagan non-revolution, or the limited choices of the US	26
3	Japan and the future trajectory of the world-system: lessons from history	36
4	European unity and its implications for the interstate system	49
5	1968, revolution in the world-system	65
6	Marx, Marxism-Leninism, and socialist experiences in the modern world-system	84
7	The Brandt report	98
8	Typology of crises in the world-system	104
9	The capitalist world-economy: middle-run prospects	123
II.	Geoculture: the underside of geopolitics
10	National and world identities and the interstate system (with Peter D. Phillips)	139
11	Culture as the ideological battleground of the modern world-system	158
12	The national and the universal: can there be such a thing as world culture?	184
13	What can one mean by Southern culture?	200
14	The modern world-system as a civilization	215
15	The renewed concern with civilization(s?)	231
	Index	238