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World-systems theory traces emerged in the 1970s. [3] Its roots can be found in sociology, but it has developed into a highly interdisciplinary field. [4] World-systems theory was aiming to replace modernization theory, which Wallerstein criticised for three reasons: [4] its focus on the nation state as the only unit of analysis
The most well-known version of the world-system approach has been developed by Immanuel Wallerstein. A world-system is a crucial element of the world-system theory, a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change.
While Wallerstein was quite clear that the interstate system followed the development of a world-economy, and state policies largely reflected internal pressures from economic actors, [14] other world-systems theorists like Christopher Chase-Dunn view the interstate system and world-economy as concomitant processes with no clear causal priority.
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (/ ˈ w ɔː l ər s t iː n /; [2] September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian.He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach. [3]
Modern capitalism allowed for economies to extend beyond geographical and political boundaries, leading to the formation of the first worldwide economic system. [9] At the base of this world system was an international division of labor that determined countries' relationships and placement within the categories of the world system: core, semi ...
Wallerstein developed the World Systems Theory utilizing the Dependence theory along with the ideas of Marx and the Annales School. [18] This theory postulates a third category of countries, the semi-periphery, intermediate between the core and periphery. Wallerstein believed in a tri-modal rather than a bi-modal system because he viewed the ...
The EUE theory is based on the world-systems perspective developed by Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin, Giovanni Arrighi and Andre Gunder Frank. The idea behind world-system theory is that the capitalist-world economy is economically and geographically divided into an affluent core and less developed periphery, and in which surplus value flows ...
True hegemonies tend to be marked by free-trade, and political and economic liberalism, and their rise and decline can be explained through Kondratiev waves, which also correlate to periods of expansion and stagnation in the world system. [96] Wallerstein helped to establish world-systems theory as an accepted school of thought, with its own ...