Record Details


Field	Value

Title	GLOBALIZATION: A WORLD-SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

Creator	Chase-Dunn, Christopher

Description	Using the world-systems perspective, this essay discusses the trajectories of several types of globalization over the last 100 years and the recent surge in public cognizance of global processes. It is found that different types of global-ization have different temporal characteristics. Some are long-term upward trends, while others display large cyclical oscillations. The factors that explain the recent emergence of the globalization discourse are examined, and this phenomenon is analyzed in terms of the contradictory interests of powerful and less-powerful groups. I contend that there is a lag between economic and political/cultural globalization, and that the latter needs to catch up if we are to convert the contemporary world-system of "casino capitalism" in to a more humane, democratic, balanced and sustainable world society.

Publisher	University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

Date	1999-08-26

Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —

Format	application/pdf

Identifier	http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/134 10.5195/jwsr.1999.134

Source	Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 5, Issue 2, 1999; 186-215 1076-156X

Language	eng

Relation	http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/134/146

Rights	Copyright (c) 2015 Christopher Chase-Dunn http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Since 2014