Over the last two decades, America's position in the world has declined and the world economy has suffered an extended period of stagnation resulting in a severe sociopolitical crisis. This volume brings together thirteen experts in world-systems analysis to examine the long-term effects of this crisis in world order. Using historical and quantitative analysis, the contributors both theoretically and empirically discuss possible transformations of U.S. society and the world-system, focusing on North-South trade, East-West conflicts, and the relations of the United States with Europe, Japan, and Central America. The effects of this economic crisis on American social life are explored in depth, with emphasis on the organization of business firms, the status of women, and the state of American culture.

America's Changing Role in the World-System

Business & Money

Boswell, Terry

Bergensen, Albert

Economics

Praeger

Seventy-one of the 168 member nations of the UN were rocked by insurgency during the past decade. Among the most overwhelming of the conflicts were full-scale civil and separatist wars in Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mozambique, Peru, the Philippines, Somalia, and the Sudan. In light of the fact that major civil wars also occurred in 21 independent countries during the 1970s, 13 countries during the 1960s, and 14 countries during the 1950s, it seems clear that the current prevalence of revolutions world-wide reflects a growing trend in world affairs.
This volume grew out of the twelfth annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference, War and Revolution, held at Emory University. It consists of entirely original research from a variety of perspectives and disciplines and provides world- systematic, comparative historical and case study analyses of revolutions and the prolonged development of structural dynamics and political processes that give rise to these upheavals. The contributors emphasize the importance of viewing revolution from a global perspective with careful attention to the political and cultural dimensions as well as the economic factors involved. Following an introduction by editor Terry Boswell, the work is divided into four sections: world revolutions, comparative studies of revolution, case studies of social revolution in Nicaragua and Iran, and case studies of revolutionary situations in Poland, Chile, and South Africa. An afterword by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter completes the volume. This work provides an important interdisciplinary perspective on intranational strife in the modern world, and will be useful in college and university courses in political science, world affairs, history, and sociology.

Revolution in the World-System: (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

Globalization and Labor: Democratizing Global Governance

Unions have long been a central force in the democratization of national and global governance, and this timely book examines the role of labor in fighting for a more democratic and equitable world. In a clear and compelling narrative, Dimitris Stevis and Terry Boswell explore the past accomplishments and the formidable challenges still facing global union politics. Outlining the contradictions of globalization and global governance, they assess the implications for global union politics since its inception in the nineteenth century. The authors place this key social movement in a political economy framework as they argue that social movements can be fruitfully compared based on their emphases on egalitarianism and internationalism. Applying these concepts to global union politics across time, the authors consider whether global union politics has become more active and more influential or has failed to rise to the challenge of global capitalism. All readers interested in global organizations, governance, and social movements will find this deeply informed work an essential resource.

Stevis, Dimitris

Reference

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Racial Competition And Class Solidarity

Looks at union organizing and strikes that were either strengthened by interracial cooperation or defeated by racial competition during the period between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.

Racial Competition and Class Solidarity

Brueggemann, John

Brown, Cliff

Peters, T. Ralph, Jr.

State Univ of New York Pr

The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy (Power and Social Change--Studies in Political Sociology)

Argues that, although the word "socialism" is widely held in disdain in current discourse about the world's past and its future, the idea of socialism as collective rationality and popular democracy is far from dead. Describes a spiral of capitalism and socialism, of economic expansion and social progress, that creates opportunities for positive transformation at the global level. Boswell is professor and chair of sociology at Emory University. Chase-Dunn is professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Chase-Dunn, Christopher

Lynne Rienner Pub

Book by Boswell, Terry, Chase-Dunn, Christopher

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America's Changing Role in the World-System

Revolution in the World-System: (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)

Globalization and Labor: Democratizing Global Governance

Racial Competition and Class Solidarity

The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy (Power and Social Change--Studies in Political Sociology)

The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy (Power and Social Change--Studies in Political Sociology)