Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-SystemThis 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. |
Contents
The lessons of the 1980s | 1 |
North Atlanticism in decline | 19 |
The Reagan nonrevolution or the limited choices of the US | 26 |
Japan and the future trajectory of the worldsystem lessons from history? | 36 |
European unity and its implications for the interstate system | 49 |
1968 revolution in the worldsystem | 65 |
Marx MarxismLeninism and socialist experiences in the modern worldsystem | 84 |
The Brandt report | 98 |
The capitalist worldeconomy middlerun prospects | 123 |
National and world identities and the interstate system | 139 |
Culture as the ideological battleground of the modern worldsystem | 158 |
The national and the universal can there be such a thing as world culture? | 184 |
What can one mean by Southern culture? | 200 |
The modern worldsystem as a civilization | 215 |
The renewed concern with civilizations? | 231 |
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