Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy

by Christopher Chase-Dunn

Overview

The fall of communism, the emergence of 'the information age,' and the expansion of economic globalism are the points of departure for this new edition of Chase-Dunn's landmark book. The author shows how these seemingly new developments fit with earlier patterns of global formation and change, extending the influential model that drew wide attention to this award-winning book. The new edition also evaluates recent major studies of the modern world-system and assesses the implications for the future of the contemporary system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847691029
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/03/1998
Edition description:	Updated
Pages:	452
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.01(d)

About the Author

Christopher Chase-Dunn is professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Part I: The Whole System
Chapter 2 The Deep Structure: Real Capitalism
Chapter 3 Constants, Cycles and Trends
Chapter 4 Stages of Capitalism or World-System Cycles? The World-System Since 1945: What Has Changed
Chapter 5 World Culture, Normative Integration and Community
Part 6 Part II: States and Interstate System
Chapter 7 States and Capitalism
Chapter 8 Geopolitics and Capitalism: One Logic or Two? Warfare and World-Systems
Chapter 9 Rise and Decline of Hegemonic Core States
Part 10 Part III: Zones of the World System
Chapter 11 Core and Periphery
Chapter 12 Reproduction of the Core/Periphery Relationship

Editorial Reviews

The second edition of Global Formation brings us doubly up to date on Chase-Dunn's contributions to the joint effort.

International Sociology Review

In this impressive book, Chase-Dunn. .. explains in masterly fashion the political and social factors that make the capitalist system so good at producing wealth.

Times Higher Education - Susan Strange

An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism.....

April 2000 Sociological Abstracts

[T]he major statement to date of American world-systems theory and research.

Walter L. Goldfrank

The second edition of Global Formation brings us doubly up to date on Chase-Dunn's contributions to the joint effort.

International Sociology Review of Books (ISRB)

The second edition of Global Formation brings us doubly up to date on Chase-Dunn's contributions to the joint effort.

International Sociology

In this impressive book, Chase-Dunn . . . explains in masterly fashion the political and social factors that make the capitalist system so good at producing wealth.
— Susan Strange

Times Higher Education Supplement

In this impressive book, Chase-Dunn . . . explains in masterly fashion the political and social factors that make the capitalist system so good at producing wealth.

Susan Strange

An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism.....

Sociological Abstracts