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    ‘Studies in modern capitalism — Brudes surle capitalisme moderne The politics of the world-economy ‘Studies im modern capitalism - Etudes sur fe capitalisme moderne Eulitorial board » Comité de réaction Maurice Aymard, Masson des Seiences de! Homme, Paris Jacques Revel, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris ‘Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel Center forthe Study of Economics, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, Binghamton, New Vork ‘This series is devoted o an attempt to comprehend capitalism as a world-system. Tt will include monographs, collections of essays and colloquia around specific themes, written by historians and social scientists united by a common concern for the study oflarge-seale long-term social structure and social change. ‘The series isa joint enterprise of the Masson des Sciences de I'Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations atthe State University of New York ai Binghamton, Other books inthe series Maurice Aymard (ed.): Dutch eapitalim and word aptalisn/Coptaisme hollandas et capitaliane mondo! Ivan T. Berend, Gybrgy Ranki: The European penphery and industalization, 1760-1914 Pierre Bourdieu: lgena 1960 Andre Gunder Frank: Mexican agmailtare 1521-1630: transformation “producton Folker Frobel, JOrgen Heinrichs, Otto Kreye: The new mtertional dissin of labour structural uneinployment x ndastraliced caus and industriaigaion en developing camires Caglar Keyder: The definition ofa peripheral economy: Turkey 1923-1929 Peter Kniedee, Hans Medic, Jirgen Sehlumbolim: ndusinalizauon before ‘ndusiraligation: rural industry nthe genesis of eapitalism Bruce McGowan: Eeenomie life m Ottoman Europe: taxation, trade and the struggle forthe land, 1660-1860 Emest Mandel: Long wavs of capitalist deelopment: the Marsst interpretation Michel Morineau: Cer mcoyables gazeter fables melas: les retours des trésors ‘anéricains, Wabres ies guzeiteshllandases(26-18e sels) Henri H. Stahl: Treditional Romani village conmaniiet: the ransiio fom the comeaal to the capitalist mode of production nthe Danube region Immanuel Wallerstein: The capitalist world-econny: essays the made of ‘This book is published as part ofthe joint publishing agreement established in 1977 ‘between the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de "Homme and the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. Tits published under this arrangement ‘may appear in any European language or, inthe case of volumes of collected essays, rm several languages ‘New books will appear ether as individual titles or in one ofthe series which the Maison des Sciences de "Homme and the Cambridge University Press have jointly agreed to publish. All books published jointly by the Maison des Sciences de Homme and the Cambridge University Press wll be distributed by the Press tHhroughout the world The politics of the world-economy ‘The states, the movements, and the civilizations Essays by IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN Director, Fernand Braudel Center for the Stody of Economies, Histoncal Systems, and Civilaatons atthe State University of New York 3¢ Binghamton Pensa Cambridge University Press ‘Cambridge New York Port Chester Melbourne Sydney - Editions de la Maison des Sciences de I'Homme Pans Published by the Press Syndicate of the Unwersity of Cambridge ‘The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRP 40 West 20th Sireet, New York. NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia and Eltions de Ia Maison des Sciences de ! Homme 54 Boulevard Raspail, 75270 Paris Cedex 06 © Mauon des Sciences de "Homme and Cambridge Universty Press 1984 Fist published 1984 Reprinted 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991 Printed an Gi Britain at the University Pres, Cambridge Library of Congress catalogue eard number: 68-20853 Bosh Library Calalguing i» Publication Data Walleren, Immanuel ‘The polities ofthe workd-economy. ~ (Studies m modern eapualism = Ewudes sur le ‘aptalisme moderne) 1 Capitalism — Political aspects 2 Economic history ~ 1913 LTide TI. Senee 30.9 HB501 ISSN 144-2335, ISBN 0 521 25918 5 hardback ISBN 0 521 27760 4 paperback ISBN 2 7351-0073 1 hardback (France only) ISBN 2 7391 0074 X paperback (France only) Contents Acknowledgments page 1 World networks and the politics ofthe world-cconomy 2 Patterns and prospectives of the capitalist world-economy I. The states and the interstate system 3. The states in the institutional vortex of the capitalist world-economy 4 The three instances of hegemony in the history of the capitalist world-economy The withering away ofthe states Friendsas foes ‘The USA in the world today ‘The world-economy and the state-structures in peripheral and dependent countries (the so-called Third World) 9 Socialist states: mercantilist strategies and revolutionary objectives eo IL, Antisystemic movements 10. The future ofthe world-economy 11 Eurocommunism: its roots in European working-class history 12. Nationalism and the world transition to socialism: is therea crisis? 13. Revolutionary movements in the era of US hegemony and after 27 37 47 69 80 86 97 12 128 132 vi Contents IIL. The civilizational project 14 The quality of life in different social systems the model and the reality 15 Civilizations and modes of produ and convergences 16 The dialectics of civilizations in the modern world-system 17. Thedevelopment of the concept ofdevelopment in: conflicts Index 147 159 169 173 187 Acknowledgments We are grateful to the original publishers for their kind cooperation in granting permission for publication here. 1 Amos W. Hawley (ed.), Societal growth: processes and implications (New York: Free Press, 1979), pp. 269-78 (copyright 1979 by the Free Press, a Division of Macmillan Publishing Company) 2 Originally prepared for Seminar on Economy and Society in the ‘Transformation of the World (second international seminar of the United Nations University Project on Socio-Gultural Develop- ment Alternatives in a Changing World), held in Madrid, 15-19 September 1980 (copyright United Nations University) 3 International Social Science Journal, 32:4 (1980), pp. 743-51 (copyright 1980 by UNESCO) 4 International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 24:1~2 (1983) 5 Intemational Journal of the Sociology of Law, 8:4 (1980), pp. 369-78 {copyright 1980 by Academic Press Inc. (London) Ltd.) ign Policy, no. 40 (Fall 1980), pp. 119-81 (copyright 1980 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) 7 Contemporary Marxism, no. + (Winter 1981-82), pp. 11-17 8 Anthro-Teck: A Journal of Speculative Anthropology, 1:3-4 (1982), pp. 11-12, 38 9 Edward Friedman (ed.) Ascent and decline in ihe world-system (Beverly Hills and London: Sage, 1982), pp. 289-300 (copyright 1982 by Sage Publications Inc.) 10 Terence K. Hopkins and I. Wallerstein (eds.), Processes of the world-system (Beverly Hills and London: Sage, 1980), pp. 167-80 (copyright 1980 by Sage Publications Inc.) 6 viii Acknowledgments 11 Contemporary Marxism, no. 2 (Winter 1980), pp. 1-7 12 Third World Quarterly, 5:1 (1983), pp. 95-102 13 Originally prepared for Seminar on Culture and Thought in the Transformation of the World (third international seminar of the United Nations University Project on Socio-Cultural Development Alternatives in a Changing World), held in Algiers, 13-17 Decem- ber 1981 (copyright United Nations University) 14 C.K, Blong (ed.), Systems thinking and the quality of life (Washington, D.C.: Proceedings of the Society for General Systems Research, 1975), pp. 28-34 18 Theory and Society, (1978), pp. 1-10 16 Originally prepared for Ninth World Congress of Sociology, Working Group “Civilizations: One or Many?”, Uppsala, 14-19 August 1978 17 Sécrological Theory, 2 (1984) 1 » World networks and the politics of the world-economy ‘The antinomy between state and society is often asserted to be a defining characteristic of the modern world. Some argue that the contradictions deriving from this antinomy following the French Revo- lution underlic the contrasting ideologies that arose in the nineteenth century, and that sociology itselfas an intellectual discipline represents an attempt to analyze and resolve this antinomy. The concepts “state” and “society” refer usually to two structures that presumably coexist within a single set of boundaries (ultimately juridical boundaries). ‘These structures are thought to be organizations of collective energy — ‘one formal, one not, but both real— that operate on and are operated by the same set of individuals. If one starts with such an assumption, which as been widespread, indeed dominant, in Western, indeed world, thought since the French Revolution, then one can pose ques tions about the degree of fit between the values of the state and of the society, and seek to explain why the fit is far from perfect. In terms of policy, one can prescribe what one prefers to make the fit more perfect. ‘This set of categories then becomes the basis of “comparative political sociology.” ‘The lack of value fit was perceived by many to bea lack of boundary fit. It followed that if the boundaries of the state were changed ~ diminished, enlarged, or redrawn — thus creating different juridical units, the fit would become greater. This is where the concept of nation and its allied terminology have come in. “Nation” refers in the last, analysis to a “society” that has a state to itself, or has the moral right to have a state to itself (the so-called right to self

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