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Geopolitics and Geoculture
Essays on the Changing World-System

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Part of Studies in Modern Capitalism

Author: Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Yale University, Connecticut

Date Published: July 1991
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isbn: 9780521406048

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This is the third volume of Immanuel Wallerstein's essays to appear in Studies in Modern Capitalism, following the immensely successful collections The Politics of the World Economy and The Capitalist World Economy. Written between 1982 and 1989, the essays in this volume offer Wallerstein's perspective on the events of the period, and the background to his interpretation of the momentous events of 1989. Wallerstein argues that the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the process of perestroika bear out his basic analysis: that the decline of U.S. hegemony in the world-system is the central explanatory variable of change; and that the collapse of the communist empire and the approach of European unity cannot be understood without reference to this decline as a critical stage in the cyclical rhythm of the capitalist world economy. As part of the analysis the book also charts the development of a challenge to the dominant "geoculture": the cultural framework within which the world-system operates. This collection offers the latest ideas of one of the most original and controversial thinkers of recent years, and is bound to stimulate debate among students and scholars across the social sciences.
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"This is a work of sociology with a grand historical sweep....There are many original and stimulating thoughts here." Foreign Affairs
"This collection of essays is exceptional....likely to offer some refreshing, if controversial, views on present world affairs." Jan Nijman, The Professional Geographer
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- Date Published: July 1991
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521406048
- length: 252 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The lessons of the 1980s
Part I. Geopolitics, Post-America:
1. North Atlanticism in decline
2. The Reagan non-revolution, or the limited choices of the US
3. Japan and the future trajectory of the world-system: lessons from history
4. European unity and its implications for the interstate system
5. 1968, revolution in the world-system
6. Marx, Marxism-Leninism, and socialist experiences in the modern world-system
7. The Brandt report
8. Typology of crises in the world-system
9. The capitalist world-economy: middle-run prospects
Part II. Geoculture, The Underside Of Geopolitics:
10. National and world identities
11. Culture as the ideological battleground of the modern world-system
12. The national and the universal: can there be such a thing as world culture
13. What can one mean by southern culture
14. The modern world-system as a civilization
15. The renewed concern with civilization(s)?
Index.
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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Yale University, Connecticut