Table Of ContentRoutledge Handbook of
World-Systems Analysis
World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today’s students and
juniorscholarscometoworld-systemsanalysisasawell-establishedapproachspanningallofthe
socialsciences.Thebestworld-systemsscholarship,however,isspreadacrossmultiplemethodol-
ogiesandmorethanhalfadozenacademicdisciplines.Aimingtocrystallizefortyyearsofprogress
andlay the groundworkfor thecontinued development ofthefield,the Routledge Handbook of
World-SystemsAnalysisisacomprehensivereviewofthestateofthefieldofworld-systemsanalysis
sinceitsoriginsalmostfortyyearsago.
The Handbook includes contributions from a global, interdisciplinary group of more than
80 world-systems scholars. The authors include founders of the field, mid-career scholars, and
newly emerging voices. Each one presents a snapshot of an area of world-systems analysis as it
existstodayandpresentsavisionforthefuture.
TheclearstyleandbroadscopeoftheHandbookwillmakeitessentialreadingforstudentsand
scholars of sociology, anthropology, archaeology, geography, political science, history, and
developmenteconomics.
Salvatore J. Babones is a senior lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at The University of
SydneyandtheauthoroftheBenchmarkingAmericablog.Heistheauthororeditorofthreebooks
focusingondevelopment,socialchange,andglobalhealthinequalities.
ChristopherChase-DunnistheDirectoroftheInstituteforResearchonWorld-Systemsatthe
University of California at Riverside and was the founding editor of the Journal of World-
SystemsResearch.Heistheauthororeditoroffifteenbooksontopicsrangingfrompre-modern
world-systemstothefutureofcapitalism.
Routledge Handbook of
World-Systems Analysis
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1.Socialsystems.2.Economics.3.Socialsciences.4.Systemtheory.
5.Systemanalysis.I.Babones,SalvatoreJ.II.Chase-Dunn,ChristopherK.
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Contents
Listofillustrations xiii
Listofcontributors xiv
Introduction 1
SalvatoreJ.BabonesandChristopherChase-Dunn
PARTI
Origins 7
1. Beforethelongsixteenthcentury 9
1.1 Marketcooperationandtheevolutionofthepre-Hispanic
Mesoamericanworld-system 11
RichardE.BlantonandLaneF.Fargher
1.2 AssessingthedebatebetweenAbu-LughodandWallerstein
overthethirteenth-centuryoriginsofthemodernworld-system 21
ElsonE.Boles
1.3 TheAfroeurasianworld-system:Genesis,transformations,characteristics 30
LeonidGrininandAndreyKorotayev
1.4 Agriculturaloriginsandearlydevelopment 39
E.N.Anderson
1.5 QubilaiandtheIndianOcean:Anewera? 42
PaulD.Buell
2. Historicalprocessesofincorporationanddevelopment 45
2.1 Incorporationintoandmergerofworld-systems 47
ThomasD.Hall
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2.2 Thegreattransitiondebateandworld-systemsanalysis 56
EricMielants
2.3 Thesocialfoundationsofglobalconflictandcooperation:Globalization
andglobaleliteintegration,nineteenthtotwenty-firstcentury 63
ThomasEhrlichReifer
2.4 TheEastAsianpathofdevelopment 71
AlvinY.So
2.5 Darfur:Theperipheryoftheperiphery 80
YounesAbouyoub
PARTII
Theoryandcritiques 83
3. Theoreticalfrontiersinworld-systemsanalysis 85
3.1 Externality,contactperipheryandincorporation 87
JonD.Carlson
3.2 Wallerstein’sworld-system:Rootsandcontributions 97
W.L.Goldfrank
3.3 Thestructuresofknowledge:Conceptualizingthesociocultural
arenaofhistoricalcapitalism 104
RichardE.Lee
3.4 Themultiplicityofnationaldevelopmentintheworld-system:
Acriticalperspective 112
NobuyukiYamada
3.5 Crisisintheworld-system:Theoreticalandpolicyimplications 121
JohnBarnshawandLynnLetukas
3.6 Core,semiperiphery,periphery:Avariablegeometry
presidingoverconceptualization 123
NicoleBousquet
3.7 Terminalcrisisoranewsystemiccycleofaccumulation? 125
ChristopherChase-Dunn
4. Explicitmodelingasaresearchstrategy 127
4.1 Measuringtransitionandhierarchyofstateswithintheworld-systemsparadigm 129
RaymondJ.Dezzani
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4.2 World-systemsasdissipativestructures:Anewresearchagenda 139
PeterE.Grimes
4.3 Narratingstoriesabouttheworld-systemoftheFirst
GlobalAge,1400–1800 147
J.B.Owens
4.4 World-systemstheoryandformalandsimulationmodeling 155
HirokoInoue
4.5 Mathematicalmodelsofworld-systemdevelopment 158
AndreyKorotayevandSergeyMalkov
5. Criticalcontributionstoworld-systemsanalysis 161
5.1 World-systemhistory:ChallengingEurocentricknowledge 163
RobertA.DenemarkandBarryK.Gills
5.2 Thefailureofthe“ModernWorld-System”andthenewparadigm
ofthe“CriticalTheoryofPatriarchy”:The“civilizationofalchemists”
asa“systemofwar” 172
ClaudiavonWerlhof
5.3 Authenticatingseventeenthcentury“hegemonies”:Dutch,
Spanish,French,ornone? 181
DavidWilkinson
5.4 Challengesofglobalizationtheorytoworld-systemsanalysis 189
LeslieSklair
PARTIII
Thecontemporaryworld-economy 193
6. Marketsandexchange 195
6.1 Surplusdrainanddarkvalueinthemodernworld-system 197
DonaldA.Clelland
6.2 Thesilenceoffinanceanditscritics:Portfolioinvestorsinthe
world-system 206
AaronZ.Pitluck
6.3 Debtcrisesinthemodernworld-system 215
ChristianSuter
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6.4 Economic-politicalinteractioninthecore/peripheryhierarchy 224
MikhailBalaev
6.5 Theothersideoftheglobalformation:Structuresoftheworld
lumpeneconomy 226
ZbigniewGalor
7. Networksandchains 229
7.1 Globalcities,globalcommoditychainsandthegeography
ofcore-nessinthecapitalistworld-system 231
ChristofParnreiter
7.2 Trade,unequalexchange,globalcommoditychains:World-system
structureandeconomicdevelopment 239
DavidA.Smith
7.3 Globalcitiesandworldcitynetworks 247
MichaelTimberlakeandDavidA.Smith
7.4 Howindividualsshapeglobalproduction 256
FrederickWilliamLee
7.5 WorldcitiesinAsia 258
Kyoung-HoShin
7.6 TheInternetandtheworld-system(s) 260
PiotrKonieczny
8. Globalizationanddistribution 263
8.1 Globalization:Theoriesofconvergenceanddivergence
intheworld-system 265
KellyF.Austin,LauraA.McKinney,andEdwardL.Kick
8.2 Socialstratificationandmobility:Nationalandglobaldimensions 274
TimothyPatrickMoran
8.3 Incomeinequalityintheworld:Lookingbackandahead 283
VolkerBornschier
8.4 Billionairesandglobalinequality:Doesanincreaseinoneindicate
anincreaseintheother? 286
JennyChesters
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8.5 ThepervasivenessofICTinourpresentmodernworld-system 288
MelsomeNelson-Richards,withtheassistanceofKanduE.Agbimson
PARTIV
Developmentandunderdevelopment 291
9. Indigeneityandincorporation 293
9.1 Earlycapitalistinaugurationandtheformationofacolonialshatterzone 295
RobbieEthridge
9.2 Indigenouspeoples,globalizationandautonomyinworld-systemsanalysis 304
JamesV.Fenelon
9.3 Peasants,peasantriesand(de)peasantizationinthecapitalistworld-system 313
EricVanhaute
9.4 Chiefdomworld-systems(withafocusonHawaii,1390–1790) 322
ElenaErmolaeva
10. Modelsofgrowthandstagnation 325
10.1 Positionandmobilityinthecontemporaryworld-economy:
Astructuralistperspective 327
SalvatoreJ.Babones
10.2 O’Connorianmodelsofperipheraldevelopment—orhowthirdworld
statesresistworld-systemicpressuresbycloningthepoliciesofstatesin
thecore 336
SamuelCohn
10.3 Theembeddedperiphery:Slums,favelas,shantytowns
andanewregimeofspatialinequalityinthemodernworld-system 345
DelarioLindsey
10.4 Urbanizationandpovertyintheglobal“South” 353
ShahadatHossain
11. Foodandagriculture 355
11.1 Globalenvironmentalgovernance,competition,andsustainability
inglobalagriculture 357
BrianJ.GareauandJohnBorrego
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