The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World System, 1945-2025

by Immanuel Wallerstein, Hopkins and Wallerstein, Terence K. Hopkins

Book Overview

Immanuel Wallerstein's World-System theory made a big impact on International Political Economy when it was first formulated in the early 1980s. Although subsequently criticised, the recent demise of the Soviet system's historic attempt to delink from global capitalism has provided a perhaps unanticipated confirmation of the profundity of its insights. Now with this new book, Wallerstein and a team of colleagues from the Fernand Braudel Center for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856494403
• ISBN13: 9781856494403
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.6"