Articles by Immanuel Wallerstein

• Structural Crises
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR 62, March-April 2010, pp. 133-142
  Subjects: World Economy and Globalization
  

  A world-systems perspective on the post-2008 crash, seeing in present imbalances a conjunction of cyclical downturn and secular trends, and highlighting the nature of coming struggles for another, better order.

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• Reading Fanon in the 21st Century
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR 57, May-June 2009, pp. 117-125
  Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Psychology and Psychoanalysis , Third World
  

  Immanuel Wallerstein draws on The Wretched of the Earth to set out three central dilemmas for today’s anti-systemic movements. Questions of violence, identity and class seen through an anti-colonial lens.

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• The Curve of American Power
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR 40, July-August 2006, pp. 77-94
  Subjects: Economic Theory , United States , World Economy and Globalization
  

  Will strategic failure in Iraq hasten a decline in US hegemony? Immanuel Wallerstein surveys the global landscape that might emerge from the longue durée of American rule, with rival regional powers competing for energy, water and markets in an unstructured world-political order.

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• Entering Global Anarchy
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR 22, July-August 2003, pp. 27-35
  Subjects: United States , War and Peace
  

  A world-systems view of the prospects for the American imperium, after the occupation of Iraq. The confidence of the Republican Administration, the misgivings of its allies and the uncertainties of a transition to a new historical order.

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• New Revolts Against the System
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR 18, November-December 2002, pp. 29-39
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Movements
  

  The longue durée of resistance to the established order: after a hundred and twenty years of socialist and nationalist revolts, does the World Social Forum represent a qualitatively new alignment of forces and strategies for change?

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• Questioning Eurocentricism: A Reply to Gregor McLennan
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR I/231, September-October 1998, pp. 159-160
  Subjects: History and Historiography , Social Theory , Europe , World Economy and Globalization
  

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• Eurocentricism and its Avatars: The Dilemmas of Social Science
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR I/226, November-December 1997, pp. 93-107
  Subjects: History and Historiography , Social Theory , World Economy and Globalization
  

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• The Agonies of Liberalism: What Hope Progress?
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR I/204, March-April 1994, pp. 3-17
  Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
  

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• The Bourgeois(ie) as Concept and Reality
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR I/167, January-February 1988, pp. 91-106
  Subjects: History and Historiography , Social Theory
  

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• The 'Crisis of the Seventeenth Century'
  • Immanuel Wallerstein

  in NLR I/110, July-August 1978, pp. 65-73
  Subjects: Economic Theory , History and Historiography
  

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