http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/irows_rw/rss Recent eScholarship items from Other Recent Work Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:43:27 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wh926w7 The stratification of societies in the modern world system of societies is essential; however, it is not developed substantially. Therefore, with the aim to elaborate a coherent system of aspects, criteria, and measurements of stratification of modern societies, the author applies theoretical decomposition of the aspects of intersocietal stratification into criteria, develops its measurements, and argues the relevance of interpreting them as stratifying ones. As a result, ten aspects and twenty-five criteria with the respective measurements of stratification are discriminated. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wh926w7 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Khutkyy, Dmytro https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hb3k4v1 To stratify modern societies in the process of intersocietal selection, it is necessary to define the empirical indicators of such stratification. Therefore, to construct the classification of indicators of intersocietal stratification, the author reviews the existing indicators, develops new ones, and structures them into a coherent scheme. As a result of the research, a complex of forty empirical indicators of intersocietal stratification in the process of intersocietal selection has been elaborated. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hb3k4v1 Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Khutkyy, Dmytro https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9338z6fw <p>Little systematic research has been done on the social composition of the hundreds of thousands of people that attend the World Social Forum, or how their background characteristics and political affiliations might shape their political views. This paper addresses these questions through an analysis of original survey data of 640 participants of the 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. We found that most WSF participants were young, from Brazil and neighboring countries, expressed radical views, and actively participated in social movements. Most also belonged to relatively privileged social groups; most were highly educated (a proxy measure for class), and “white” was the most common racial identity. Results from our logistic regression analysis indicate that there were statistically significant differences among respondents’ political goals and preferred strategies for social change based on their world system position, race, and membership in different types... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9338z6fw Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Ellen Reese Mark Herkenrath Chris Chase-Dunn Rebecca Giem Erika Guttierrez Linda Kim Christine Petit https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pp6d9m3 <p>Abstract: This paper uses quantitative estimates of the sizes of cities and empires to tentatively identify upward sweeps in which uniquely large cities and empires emerged in the Central Political/military network since the Bronze Age, and it formulates a causal model to explain both the cyclical rise and fall of cities and empires and the upward sweep</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pp6d9m3 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Chris Chase-Dunn Alexis Alvarez Hiroko Inoue Richard Niemeyer Anders Carlson Ben Fierro Kirk Lawrence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vx436b6 <p>The density and contours of networks of transnational and international economic integration are hypothesized by many theorists to be causally related to the patterns of cooperation and conflict. [1] The usual notion is that trade creates ties of symmetrical interdependence, which are likely to inhibit conflict. We seek to test this hypothesis in the 19th and early 20th century run-up to World War I. We examine the relationship between the structure of conflict and the contours of trade ties during the 19th century wave of globalization and deglobalization. How were the international trade ties related to the patterns of conflict and alliance that emerged during World War I? Germany was linked by trade, immigration and elite family connections with both Britain and the United States, and yet both World Wars I and II pitted the Germans against Britain and the U.S. But were the trade ties of Germany with its enemies large and significant relative to the total international trade,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vx436b6 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Chase-Dunn, Chris Anders Carlson Chris Schmitt Shoon Lio Richard Niemeyer Robert A. Hanneman https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ns1p2q8 <p>New systems theories in international relations should study human interaction networks over very long periods of time (since the Paleolithic) and the interactions between the human systems and biological and geological systems in order to comprehend and explain the patterned changes of the past and the possible futures for humanity. World-systems are whole important human interaction networks including relations among polities, trade and communications networks. Human social evolution is about the rise of larger and more hierarchical and more complex societies and the growth and intensification of long-distance interaction networks. This paper outlines a research project on the growth/decline phases of cities and states since the Iron Age in order to comprehend the possibilities for future global state formation.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ns1p2q8 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74w1p38p <p>This paper uses a nested interaction networks approach to interpret patterns of social change in the late prehistoric U.S. southwest in comparative and world historical perspective.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/74w1p38p Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chase-Dunn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73x7f47w <p>This paper uses the results of a survey of participants at the World Social Forum that was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2005 to examine North/South issues and differences within the progressive sector of global civil society. Our purpose is to reflect on the problems of overcoming contradictions among and within counter-hegemonic transnational social movements in order to promote more effective cooperation in global social justice projects.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73x7f47w Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Ellen Reese Mark Herkenrath Chris Chase-Dunn Rebecca Giem Erika Gutierrez Linda Kim Christine Petit https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hh8x1mp <p>] This is a draft of a paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, in Montréal, Canada, at 10:30 am on August 11, 2006 at the session on World Systems organized by Farshad Araghi. It is a product of the Global Elites Research Group based at the Institute for Research on World-Systems, and has included among its members for 2005-06 Kenneth Barr, Anders Carlson, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Shoon Lio, Yvonne Hsu, Linda Kim, Jonathan Krause, Kirk Lawrence, Richard Niemeyer, Thomas Reifer, Christopher Schmitt, Nuray Terzi, and Jessica Tiu. The group has been supported by the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation Grant</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hh8x1mp Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Barr, Kenneth Shoon Lio Christopher Schmitt Anders Carlson Kirk Lawrence Jonathan Krause Yvonne Hsu Christopher Chase-Dunn Thomas E. Reifer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s96b799 <p>This is a study of contemporary global party formation in world historical perspective. Recent efforts to organize progressive forces are intended to have a democratizing effect on global governance and the operation of the world economy. The activists want to avoid the mistakes of the past while organizing an effective effort move in the direction of a more just global system. This new project needs to be understood in world historical context with attention to the implications of the history of transnational social movements, world revolutions and the evolution of global governance over the last four centuries.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s96b799 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chase-Dunn Ellen Reese Erika Gutierrez Rebecca Giem Christine Petit Linda Kim https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qp617c2 <p>East, West, Central and South Asia originally formed somewhat separate cultural zones and networks of interaction among settlements and polities, but during the late Bronze and early Iron Ages these largely separate regional systems came into increasing interaction with one another. Central Asian nomadic steppe pastoralist polities and agricultural oasis settlements mediated the East/West and North/South interactions. Earlier research has discovered that the growth/decline phases of empires in East and West Asia became synchronous around 140 BCE and that this synchrony lasted until about 1800 CE. This paper develops the comparative world-systems perspective on Central Asia and examines the growth and decline of settlements, empires and steppe confederations in Central Asia to test the hypothesis that the East/West empire synchrony may have been caused by linkages that occurred with and across Central Asia.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qp617c2 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chase-Dunn Thomas D. Hall Richard Niemeyer Alexis Alvarez Hiroko Inoue Kirk Lawrence Anders Carlson Benjamin Fierro Matthew Kanashiro Hala Sheikh-Mohamed Laura Young https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65d7k1rz <p>We contend that interaction networks are far superior to cultural area and regional approaches for bounding human social systems. This article discusses methodological and conceptual issues in bounding human social systems and their interactions with the natural environment and examines several recent innovations in information technology that facilitate the study of interaction networks.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65d7k1rz Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Christopher Chase-Dunn Andrew Jorgenson https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n46m71w <p>The economic ascent of China in the past two decades is the most dramatic change in the capitalist world-economy of this period. Analyses focus on changes in government control of the economy, the availability of low cost workers for export production, the historical characteristics of Chinese economy and society, and the role of the Chinese government as a developmental state. All highlight key parts of China’s economic ascent, but none addresses what we argue will be the critical component of future sustained economic ascent, if it is to take place in China: the role of raw materials and transport industries as generative sectors.</p><p>These generative sectors in the most successful historical cases articulate domestic economic development with the creation of new systems of international economic and political relations, ultimately restructuring the capitalist world-economy in support of a nation’s ascent to core status and its ability to challenge the existing hegemon... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n46m71w Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Paul S. Ciccantell Stephen G. Bunker https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77b447bx <p>Abstract: Revised estimates of world GDP, population and GDP per capita published by Angus Maddison (2001) make possible a quantitative reexamination of the trajectory of the United States in world historical perspective and comparisons between the U.S. economic hegemony of the twentieth century with the Dutch hegemony of the seventeenth century and the British hegemony of the nineteenth century. We also track the trajectories of challengers to reflect on the future of hegemonic rivalry.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77b447bx Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Chase-Dunn, Chris Giem, Rebecca Jorgenson, Andrew Reifer, Thomas Rogers, John Lio, Shoon https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63s2z9s0 <p>Abstract: World-systems are human interaction networks that display oscillations of expansion and contraction, with occasional large expansions that bring formerly separate regional systems into systemic intercourse with one another. These waves of expansion, now called globalization, have, in the last two centuries, created a single integrated intercontinental political economy in which all national societies are strongly linked. This paper investigates the “pulsations” of regional interaction networks (world-systems) in Afroeurasia over the past 3000 years. The purpose is to determine the causes of a fascinating synchrony that emerged between East Asia and the distant West Asian/Mediterranean region, but did not involve the intermediate South Asian region. The hypothesized causes of this synchrony are climate change, epidemics, trade cycles, and the incursions of Central Asian steppe nomads. This paper formulates a strategy of data gathering, system modeling, and hypothesis... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63s2z9s0 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Chase-Dunn, Chris Alvarez, Alexis Pasciuti, Dan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rk237f5 <p>This is a study of the growth of cities in four regions over the past 4000 years. We discuss changes in the relationship between political/military power, economic power andcity systems with special attention to the rise of European hegemony and the subsequent rise of East Asian world cities.We compare East Asian urban growth with the original heartland of cities in West Asia and North Africa, as well as Europe and the subcontinent of South Asia. This reveals the trajectories of city growth and decline and the relative importance of the different regions over time.And we reexamine the hypothesis of synchronicities of city growth and decline across distant regions as the Afro-eurasian world-system became more and more integrated.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rk237f5 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Chase-Dunn, Chris Manning, Susan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54s470cc <p>This paper discusses research that is designed to examine the historical trajectory of structural globalization as an attribute of the whole world-system. Did the globalized world economy arrive all at once in a rapid and recent transition from national to global economic networks? Or is the process of international integration a long-term trend that has been going up for centuries only to be noticed recently because it has reached such a high peak? Or, alternatively, is globalization a cyclical phenomenon in which the world-system alternates between periods of national autarchy followed by periods of international economic and political integration?</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54s470cc Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Chase-Dunn, Chris Jorgenson, Andrew Giem, Rebecca Lio, Shoon Reifer, Thomas Rogers, John https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s38g8m5 <p>The three hegemonies of the modern world-system have been the Dutch in the seventeenth century, the British in the nineteenth century and the hegemony of the United States in the twentieth century. Sociologists and political scientists have carefully studied the process of hegemonic rise and decline.Recent research by Rennstich (2001) retools Arrighi’s (1994) formulation of the organizational evolutions that have accompanied the emergence of larger and larger hegemons over the last six centuries. Modelski and Thompson (1996) argued that the British successfully managed to enjoy two “power cycles,” one in the eighteenth and another in the nineteenth centuries. With this precedent in mind Rennstich considers the possibility that the US might succeed itself in the twenty-first century. Rennstich’s analysis of the organizational, cultural and political requisites of the contemporary new lead industries – information technology and biotechnology – imply that the United States has... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s38g8m5 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Chase-Dunn, Chris Reifer, Thomas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0tt5s1cv <p>Abstract: This paper contains an overview of earlier research on city and empire growth/decline phases and new evidence on the relationship between urban growth and the rise and fall of empires in six world regions. We find that empires and cities grow and decline together in some regions but not others. We also examine the temporal correlations between growth/decline phases of largest and second largest cities and empires within regions. Do large empires grow at the expense of other large states within a region or are there periods of regional growth in which states (and cities) are growing together?</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0tt5s1cv Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Chase-Dunn, Chris Alvarez, Alexis Pasciuti, Dan Hall, Thomas D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p5244s1 <p>Abstract: The world(-)systems* perspective provides a useful framework for discerning the continuities and discontinuities (emergent properties) of long historical waves of global integration (globalization) and social resistance to (capitalist) globalization.. The capitalist world(-)system has experienced long cycles of economic and political integration for centuries and these have been interspersed by periods of social resistance to capitalist globalization, in which disadvantaged, exploited and dominated groups contest the hierarchies that global capitalism and hegemonic states have constructed. In the contemporary period the intensification of capitalist globalization has been accompanied by a strengthening of social resistance and the emergence of new social movements that resist neoliberal globalization and attempt to build alternatives. Careful study of these long waves of globalization and resistance can provide us with important insights that are relevant to the task... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p5244s1 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Chase-Dunn, Chris Gills, Barry