Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-System: Volume II, New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World-System

by Wilma A. Dunaway

As one-half of the latest edition of Immanuel Wallerstein's Political Economy of the World-System series, this collection offers cutting-edge theoretical directions to explain the structural crises of the 21st-century world- system. Contributors argue that the capitalist world system has reached a critical bifurcation point, a short period which will be characterized by a sudden shift in the long-term structural forces that have created and sustained...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313324700
• ISBN13: 9780313324703
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.