America's Changing Role in the World-System

TERRY BOSWELL is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and an Instructor in the Business School at Emory University.ALBERT BERGESEN is Professor of Sociology at the Univeristy of Arizona.

• Introduction American Prospects in a Period of Hegemonic Decline and Economic Crisis by T. Boswell and A. Bergesen Part I: Continuity and Change in the Structure of the World-System The United States and the World "Crisis" by I. Wallerstein Political Ironies in the World Economy by A.G. Frank Cycles, Trends, or Transformation?: The World System Since 1945 by C. Chase-Dunn Socialism or Barbarism?: The Long-Run Fate of the Capitalist World Economy by W.L. Goldfrank Part II: The Political Economy of Hegemonic Decline Accumulation Innovations in the American Economy: The Affinity for Japanese Solutions to the Current Crisis by T. Boswell World-System Structure, National Development, and the Prospects for a Socialist World Order by E.L. Kick America and the Changing Structure of Hegemonic Production by A. Bergesen, R. Fernandez, and C. Sahoo The United States and the Third World: Institutional Conflicts and Particular Agreements by S. Krasner United States Military Aid and Coups D'Etat in the Third World by E. Muller and E. Zimmerman Part III: The Impact of the World Crisis on American Society The Decline of American Art by A. Bergesen America's Legitimating Myths: Continuity and Crisis by R. Wuthnow Global Changes, World Myths, and the Demise of Cultural Gender: Implications for the United States by F. Ramirez The Impoverishment of U.S. Women and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony by K. Ward