World System Evolution
World System History The Social Science of LongTerm Change (2000)
- ISBN: 0415232775
Abstract
This paper argues that the current shifts (or crisis) in world system developmental trajectories can best be understood if they are placed in a long-term, evolutionary world-system developmental perspective. Rather than being a "regular" iteration in this cyclical, developmental pattern, however, the current transformations are reflective of the previous collapse and following re-emergence of a complex systemic structure. This argument is tested empirically using world system network data measuring linkages between major global nodes over a 500 year period.
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