The Great Recession has prompted a reassessment of the specific mode of capitalist accumulation that achieved dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about all of this literature has focused on one of two issues: why things went wrong, and what we need to do in order to return the system to[...]

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 twent[...]

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 twent[...]

In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and conti[...]

"Uncertain Worlds" is a definitive presentation of the evolution of world-systems analysis from the point of view of its founder, Immanuel Wallerstein. The book includes a one-of-kind interview with Wallerstein by Carlos Rojas, a conversation between Wallerstein and Lemert about the history of the f[...]

The modernity of racism and its relationship to contemporary capitalism.

In this short, highly readable book, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ideas of The Modern World-System, his monumental study of capitalism as an integrated, historical entity. In developing an anatomy of capitalism over the past five centuries, Wallerstein provides one of [...]

Helt fra spanjolenes erobring av Amerika til amerikanernes "frigjøring" av Irak har vestlige lands intervensjon omkring i verden blitt rettferdiggjort med begreper om sivilisasjon, utvikling og framskritt. I denne korte og skarpe boken undersøker og kritiserer den kjente samfunnsviteren Immanuel W[...]

Immanuel Wallerstein har ett mångårigt vetenskapligt författarskap bakom sig. Det var han som lanserade den så kallade "världssystemteorin" som har spelat en viktig roll för förståelsen av politiska och ekonomiska sammanhang på global skala.

I boken Liberalismens död ger ha[...]

Vi befinner oss i slutet av en era ? den europeiska universalismens era. 

Ända sedan 1500-talet har Europas makter urskuldat sina interventioner runtom i världen genom att hänvisa till begrepp som utveckling, civilisation och framsteg. Den outtalade premissen har varit att dessa idée[...]