C Chase-Dunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 85298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Chase-Dunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Chase-Dunn |
| SIGNATURE | CHASE-DUNN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9675-9326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 112 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 111 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
US Hegemony in Evolutionary Perspective
This article examines the trajectory of the hegemony of the United States in a comparative world-historical context. Most complex and hierarchical world-systems experienced sequences in which a single polity rose to power over other polities and attained a peak level of power for a while and then declined. The modern global system is not an exception. The rise and decline of the United States in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries has been studied…
Immanuel Wallerstein: The Legacies
Waves of Structural Deglobalization: A World-Systems Perspective
Structural globalization has been both a cycle and an upward trend as periods of greater global integration have been followed by periods of deglobalization on a long-term stair-step toward the greater connectedness of humanity. Since 2008, the world-system may once again be entering another phase of structural deglobalization as the contradictions of capitalist neoliberalism, environmental degradation and uneven development have provoked differe…
Articulating the Web of Transnational Social Movements
Wallerstein, Immanuel (1930–2019)
Immanuel Wallerstein developed a global sociological perspective on modern world history with several colleagues that generated a widening school of scholarly research and theorizing that has been carried on by several generations of sociologists. World‐system analysis has developed in several different directions and has become institutionalized in professional associations, annual conferences, scholarly journals, and an interuniversity consorti…
Global Indigenism and the Web of Transnational Social Movements
Global Struggles and Social Change: From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
For a Global Social Science
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019)
Remembering Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the leading founders and promoters of world-systems analysis, died on August 31, 2019. Given the importance of his scholarship to the Journal of World-Systems Research, we plan to publish in future issues research articles based on conferences and symposia that are now being planned to honor Wallerstein’s work and legacy. In this essay, JWSR founding editor, Christopher Chase-Dunn, is joined by current editor Jackie S…
Forging a diagonal instrument for the global left: The vessel
This article takes up Samir Amin’s challenge to rethink the issue of global political organization by proposing the building of a diagonal political organization for the Global Left that would link local, national and world regional and global networks and prefigurational communities to coordinate contention for power in the world-system during the next few decades of the 21st century. The World Social Forum (WSF) process needs to be reinvented f…
Introduction: Old and New Fascism
Cyclical Evolution of the Global Right
An understanding of the current right-wing national and transnational social movements can benefit from comparing them to the global and national conditions operating during their last appearance in the first half of the twentieth century and by carefully comparing twentieth-century fascism with the neofascist and right-wing populist movements that have been emerging in the twenty-first century. This allows us to assess the similarities and diffe…
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019)
Currently, the main source for the reconstruction of the most ancient history of humankind is archeology, which almost by definition makes it possible to restore only just a few elements of the most ancient human culture (naturally, almost exclusively -material culture). A mere introduction of comparative linguistic data makes it possible to significantly refine our reconstruction of a respective culture. If a certain linguistic Urheimat may be l…
In search of unity: A new politics of solidarity and action for confronting the crisis of global capitalism
This essay is an introduction to a Special Forum by critical scholar-activists responding to the late Samir Amin’s call for the establishment of a new political vehicle that would be capable of uniting diverse progressive and revolutionary movements consisting of the workers and peoples of the whole world. The purpose of this vehicle would be to confront and radically transform a global capitalist order in deep crisis. The authors of these essays…
Forging a Diagonal Instrument for the Global Left: The Vessel
This article takes up Samir Amin’s challenge to rethink the issue of global political organization by proposing the building of a diagonal political organization for the Global Left that would link local, national and world regional and global networks and prefigurational communities to coordinate contention for power in the world-system during the next few decades of the 21st century. The World Social Forum (WSF) process needs to be reinvented f…
Anarchism in the Web of Transnational Social Movements
Anarchists have played a visible and significant role in global civil society since the 19th century and in the New Global Left since it emerged in the 1990s. Horizontalism and social libertarianism have been central components of the contemporary World Revolution and were also important in the world revolutions of 1968 and 1989. Anarchists have participated in the Social Forum process at the global, national and local levels and, in various ways…
World-System Theory
The world-system perspective emerged during the world revolution of 1968 when social scientists contemplated the meaning of Latin American dependency theory for Africa. Immanuel Wallerstein, Terence Hopkins, Samir Amin, Andre Gunder Frank, and Giovanni Arrighi developed slightly different versions of the world-system perspective in interaction with each other. The big idea was that the global system had a stratified structure on inequality based …
Commentary on “Globalisation and development: The relevance of classical ‘dependency’ theory for the world today” (Tausch, 2010)
World‐Systems Theory
The world‐systems perspective is a strategy for explaining institutional and sociocultural change that focuses on whole interpolity systems rather than single politics. The main insight of the world‐systems perspective is that important interaction networks (trade, information flows, alliances, and fighting) have woven politics and cultures together since the beginning of human sociocultural evolution. These interpolity interaction networks were …
Social Science and World Revolutions
Dependency and World‐Systems Theories
This entry is an overview of the intellectual history of dependency theory and the world‐systems perspective and a brief presentation of the main ideas in these approaches to understanding human social change.
Dependency Theory
The Development of World-Systems
This essay discusses conceptual issues that arise from the study of human social change. The comparative and evolutionary world-systems perspective is explained as a theoretical research program for studying long-term social change. This approach employs an anthropological framework of comparison for studying world-systems, including those of hunter-gatherers. Problems of spatially bounding whole human interaction networks are addressed, and the …
The Next World War: World-System Cycles and Trends
This essay places the contemporary period of global development in long-run historical perspective, elaborates a model of world-system cycles and trends, and discusses the main structural forces influencing the probability of future war among core powers. The possible continuation of the cycle of hegemonic rivalry is discussed in terms of the similarities and differences between the coming three decades and earlier periods in which a declining he…
The Effects of International Economic Dependence on Development and Inequality: A Cross-National Study
Trade Globalization since 1795: Waves of Integration in the World-System
The term "globalization" as used by social scientists and in popular discourse has many meanings. We contend that it is important to distinguish between globalization as a contemporary political ideology and what we call structural globalization- the increasing worldwide density of large-scale interaction networks relative to the density of smaller networks. We study one type of economic globalization over the past two centuries: the trajectory o…
World-Systems Analysis
This is a review of recent research on world-systems. We cover studies of the current system and studies that compare the contemporary global system with earlier, smaller intersocietal systems. Research on the cycles and secular trends found in the modern world-system is discussed at length. This includes an examination of economic cycles of various lengths as well as their links with broader cycles like the rise and fall of hegemonic core powers…
Cross-National Evidence of the Effects of Foreign Investment and Aid on Economic Growth and Inequality: A Survey of Findings and a Reanalysis
As an outgrowth of dependency theories of national development, there have been a large number of cross-national empirical studies of the effects of foreign investment and aid on economic growth and inequality. This paper reviews these studies in order to discover what can be concluded about these relationships. Our strategy is as follows: First, we discuss the conceptualization of the four main variables at issue. Second, we discuss the differen…
Toward a Structural Perspective on the World-System
Interstate System and Capitalist World-Economy: One Logic or Two
Journal Article Interstate System and Capitalist World-Economy: One Logic or Two? Get access Christopher Chase-Dunn Christopher Chase-Dunn Department of Social Relations, Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 1981, Pages 19–42, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600209 Published: 01 March 1981
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective
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 a…
World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology: Continuing the Dialogue
Many archaeologists have used world-systems analysis in precapitalist settings. Some have criticized it; others have dismissed it out of hand. Critiques include that it was developed for the "modern" world, that it is overly economistic, that it neglects individual actors, and that it inappropriately uses modern analyses in ancient settings. Although there is some validity to these charges when applied to Wallerstein's original formulation, most …
The world-systems perspective and archaeology: Forward into the past
Socialist States in the Capitalist World-Economy
Recent developments in the Marxist theory of the state and the emerging world-system perspective cast new light on the nature of the contemporary “socialist” states and their role in the larger capitalist world-economy. This essay reviews these theoretical developments, discusses the nature of socialism as a socioeconomic system, and suggests a reinterpretation of the history of the countries in which socialist movements have taken state power. I…
Social Evolution and the Future of World Society
The idea of world society implies a fully articulated complex culture and consciousness. This has been emerging on a global scale, but the old world-system of multiple cultures continues to exist at the same time that a global culture is in formation. This article discusses the historical evolution of world orders, the coming dark age of deglobalization and the potential for the eventual emergence of a collectively rational and democratic global …
Regions and Interaction Networks: An Institutional-Materialist Perspective
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
Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
Globalization from Below: Toward a Collectively Rational and Democratic Global Commonwealth
This article presents a model of the structures and processes of the modern world-system and proposes a project to transform the system into a democratic and collectively rational global commonwealth. Popular transnational social movements are challenging the ideological hegemony of corporate capitalism. The global women's movement, the labor movement, environmentalist movements, and indigenous movements are attempting to form strong alliances th…
Comparing World-Systems: Concepts and Working Hypotheses
Journal Article Comparing World-Systems: Concepts and Working Hypotheses Get access Christopher Chase-Dunn, Christopher Chase-Dunn Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Thomas D. Hall Thomas D. Hall DePauw University Direct correspondence to Thomas D. Hall, Department of Sociology, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135-0037 or to Christopher Chase-Dunn at Department of Sociology, John…
The Historical Evolution of World-Systems
This article synthesizes a new account of world-system evolution from contending cultural materialist, Marxist, and Weberian theories of very long-run social change. We explain the increasing size of world-systems, the rise of more and more hierarchical and larger empires, and the creation of a single global capitalist political economy in terms of iterations of a basic model of population growth, intensification of production, transformation of …
Waves of Structural Deglobalization: A World-Systems Perspective
Structural globalization has been both a cycle and an upward trend as periods of greater global integration have been followed by periods of deglobalization on a long-term stair-step toward the greater connectedness of humanity. Since 2008, the world-system may once again be entering another phase of structural deglobalization as the contradictions of capitalist neoliberalism, environmental degradation and uneven development have provoked differe…
Comparative Research on World-System Characteristics
This article is a discussion of the methodological problems of testing causal propositions relating variables that are characteristics of the world-system as a whole. A short summary of the world-system perspective on international relations suggests a number of hypotheses regarding processes that operate at the level of the whole system. The feasibility of testing these propositions with the time-series method of analysis of a single case is dis…
Ecological Degradation and the Evolution of World-Systems
This paper describes the role played by anthropogenic ecological degradation in the evolution of world-systems over the past twelve thousand years. We have developed a conceptual apparatus for comparing workd-systems in order to better understand how fundamental transformations in systemic logic occur. When properlyconceptualized and bounded, we can compare earlier, smaller regional systems with the modem global system. This enables us to compreh…
Accelerating democratic global state formation
This article discusses the evolution of the international system and global governance within the Europe-centred modern world-system since the 15th century in the context of a comparative framework that includes interpolity systems since the Stone Age. The evolution of the modern system includes the emergence of the European system of sovereign national states and colonial empires, the extension of the Westphalian system to the non-core by succee…
World-Systems in North America: Networks, Rise and Fall and Pulsations of Trade in Stateless Systems
INTRODUCTION\nA great deal has been written about the indigenous peoples of North America before the colonization and conquest by Europeans. In this paper we utilize a theoretical approach that was originally developed to explain developmental differences among countries in the global system to try to understand what had happened in precontact North America. Why take a theory, or more precisely a perspective, originally developed to account for t…
Interstate Systems, World-Empires and the Capitalist World-Economy: A Response to Thompson
Journal Article Interstate Systems, World-Empires and the Capitalist World-Economy: A Response to Thompson Get access Christopher Chase-Dunn, Christopher Chase-Dunn Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joan Sokolovsky Joan Sokolovsky Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 3, Sept…
Five Linked Crises in the Contemporary World-System
This essay uses the evolutionary world-systems perspective to address questions about the current crises in the global system. This approach analyzes the structure and changing institutional nature of the whole world-system over the past 500 years, with attention to comparisons with earlier regional world-systems (Chase-Dunn and Lerro 2013). The main idea is that the waves of global integration have been driven by system-wide class and national s…
Polity scale shifts in world-systems since the Bronze Age: A comparative inventory of upsweeps and collapses
In this article we report an inventory of cycles, upward sweeps and collapses of polity sizes in five separate interpolity systems: Mesopotamia, Egypt, South Asia, East Asia and the expanding Central System that eventually became the contemporary global system. Upward sweeps are defined as instances in which the largest sovereign polity in a network of fighting and allying polities significantly increases in size. Collapses are instances in which…
The Effects of International Economic Dependence on Development and Inequality: A Cross-National Study
Toward a Structural Perspective on the World-System
Reply to Stumpp, Marsh, and Lake
Cross-National Evidence of the Effects of Foreign Investment and Aid on Economic Growth and Inequality: A Survey of Findings and a Reanalysis
As an outgrowth of dependency theories of national development, there have been a large number of cross-national empirical studies of the effects of foreign investment and aid on economic growth and inequality. This paper reviews these studies in order to discover what can be concluded about these relationships. Our strategy is as follows: First, we discuss the conceptualization of the four main variables at issue. Second, we discuss the differen…
Family Life and Economic Institutions
Comparative Research on World-System Characteristics
This article is a discussion of the methodological problems of testing causal propositions relating variables that are characteristics of the world-system as a whole. A short summary of the world-system perspective on international relations suggests a number of hypotheses regarding processes that operate at the level of the whole system. The feasibility of testing these propositions with the time-series method of analysis of a single case is dis…
Socialist States in the Capitalist World-Economy
Recent developments in the Marxist theory of the state and the emerging world-system perspective cast new light on the nature of the contemporary “socialist” states and their role in the larger capitalist world-economy. This essay reviews these theoretical developments, discusses the nature of socialism as a socioeconomic system, and suggests a reinterpretation of the history of the countries in which socialist movements have taken state power. I…
"Response to Critiques of "Socialist States in the Capitalist World-Economy
Interstate System and Capitalist World-Economy: One Logic or Two
Journal Article Interstate System and Capitalist World-Economy: One Logic or Two? Get access Christopher Chase-Dunn Christopher Chase-Dunn Department of Social Relations, Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 1981, Pages 19–42, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600209 Published: 01 March 1981
The World-System of Capitalism: Past and Present
"Comments On Cereseto's "Socialism, Capitalism and Inequality
Old and New Research Designs for Studying the World-System: A Research Note
This research note reviews four previously used research designs for testing propositions about the processes of the world-system. It points out the utility of models which incorporate more than one unit of analysis (multilevel models) and examines the advantages and pitfalls of two research designs for testing such multilevel models
Method and Theory in World-System Research: A Reply to Dolan and Lerner, Ray and Rosenau
A World-System Perspective on Dependency and Development in Latin America
Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto's now-classic analysis of Latin American dependent development is perhaps the most important synthesis of the shifting alliances between classes and interest groups that have been cause and consequence of nation-building, state formation, and capital accumulation in Latin America. The book is admirable in many ways, but especially in the scale of its focus across time and space. Rather than telling us ev…
Interstate Systems, World-Empires and the Capitalist World-Economy: A Response to Thompson
Journal Article Interstate Systems, World-Empires and the Capitalist World-Economy: A Response to Thompson Get access Christopher Chase-Dunn, Christopher Chase-Dunn Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joan Sokolovsky Joan Sokolovsky Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 3, Sept…
Class, State, and Power in the Third World: With Case Studies on Class Conflict in Latin America
Crisis: In the World Economy . André Gunder Frank Crisis: In the Third World . André Gunder Frank
Reply to Szymanski
Transnational Corporations and Underdevelopment
Do investments by multinational corporations in less developed countries enhance or hinder economic development in those countries? This volume presents a re-evaulation of twenty-seven of the most important studies which were carried out to answer this question. The authors attempt to resolve the disparate findings which show that investment promotes short-run growth but in the long run retards growth. They also present a careful empirical analys…
Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880
World System Theory
Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848. Dale W. Tomich
Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy
Introduction Part I: The Whole System Chapter 1: The Deep Structure Chapter 2 Constants, Cycles and Trends Chapter 3: Stages of Capitalism or World-System Cycles Chapter 4: The World-System Since 1945: What Has Really Changed Chapter 5: World Culture, Normative Integration and Community Part II: States and the Interstate System Chapter 6: States and Capitalism Chapter 7: Geopolitics and Capitalism: One Logic or Two? Chapter 8: Warfare and World-S…
The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations
The world-systems perspective and archaeology: Forward into the past
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