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Alternatives
The United States
Confronts the World
Immanuel Wallerstein
Hegemonic Decline
Present and Past
Edited by Jonathan Friedman
and Christopher Chase-Dunn
In his newest book,
Immanuel Wallerstein
draws on a lifetime
of study of long-term
historical change
to shed light in his
newest book on the
consequences of the
recent, significant
turn in US foreign and
economic policies.
Alternatives shows how
the US has been in decline since the 1970s and
how these longer trends dovetail with current
Bush administration policies, which Wallerstein
describes as an attempt to reverse the decline
in ways that are disastrous to the future of the
country and the world.
Wallerstein suggests that a threshold has
been crossed that will make it difficult for
future presidents to practice the kind of “soft”
multilateralism in foreign policy that American
presidents have used in the past. They will be less
able to maintain effective alliances. Wallerstein
also shows, surprisingly, why “globalization”
already is dead, especially in terms of the United
States’ ability to dominate economically in the
manner that it has since the Second World War.
He calls for a major revision of US policies – and
not an attempt merely to return to the pre-Bush
foreign policy.
Contributors
Janet Abu-Lughod, Samir Amin, Maurice Aymard, Giovanni
Arrighi, Pablo Gonzalez-Casanova, Randall Collins,
Mahmood Mamdani, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Bart
Tromp, Marcel van der Linden, Michel-Rolph Trouillot,
Claudia von Werlhof, Immanuel Wallerstein.
2004, 176 pages, 6 x 9”
1-59451-067-9 / 978-1-59451-067-0
paper $23.95 CRO
Although the US is the world’s only military and
economic superpower, this status may not last.
The possible futures of the global system and the
role of US power are illuminated by careful study
of the past. This book addresses the problems of
conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic rise and
decline in comparative and historical perspective.
Several chapters are devoted to the study of
hegemony in premodern world-systems, while other
chapters scrutinize the contemporary position and
trajectory of the United States in the larger worldsystem.
2004, 224 pages, 6 x 9”
1-59451-009-1 / 978-1-59451-009-0
paper $36.95 CRO
Globalization,
Hegemony and Power
Antisystemic Movements and
the Global System
Edited by Thomas Reifer
This book explores the closely related dynamics
of globalization, hegemony, and resistance
movements in the modern world. Complemented
by dramatic explorations of the new trans-border
resistance movements, this book moves beyond the
traditional focus on the cycles of rise and decline
of great powers to assess the pressing questions
at the intersection of contemporary globalizations
and hegemonic rise, decline, and resurgence
of civilizations. Moreover, the book provides a
compelling analysis of the role of contemporary
globalization in the resurgence of Islamic activism.
2004, 256 pages, 6 x 9”
1-59451-027-X / 978-1-59451-027-4
paper $36.95 CRO
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