World-Systems Analysis at a Critical Juncture

Corey R. Payne is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the dynamics of historical capitalism, social conflict, and war-making.Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. His book Unveiling Inequality (NY, 2009), co-written with Timothy P. Moran, won the 2010 Best Book Award of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association. His current research focuses on global patterns of income inequality, social stratification, and mobility.Beverly J. Silver, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

• 1. World-Systems Analysis at a Critical JuncturePart 1: World Systems Analyses, Concepts, & Methods2. Avoiding the Security Trap: The Contributions of Terence Hopkins and World-Systems as Methodology for Critical Police Studies3. Terence K. Hopkins and Concepts as Relational Categories: Different Manifestations of the Relationship between Religion and Neoliberalism in the Global South4. Symbolic Power and Geoculture in the World-System: Ottoman and Russian Perspectives5. Reconstructing Commodity Chain Analysis as World-Systems AnalysisPart 2: Continuity and Transformation in World System Hierarchies 6. The Rise of the Global South and the Redefinition of World System Hierarchies7. Marxism and World-Systems Analyses in the Transition to the Long 21st Century8. On the Lineages of World-Systems Analysis: Sub-Imperialism as a Conjunctural Approach9. The Dialectics of Time and Value Accumulation: Alienation on a World Scale DimensionPart 3: Social Contradictions of Capitalism in the 21st Century10. "Primitive" Accumulation under Historical Capitalism and the Unequal Social Regulation of the Global Labor Force11. "Primitive" Accumulation in Urban Semiperiphery: Ethno-Racial Elites, Rezoning, and Displacement in Manhattan, New York City12. Global Crisis and Militarized Migration Management: A World-Historic Perspective13. Dilemma of the Rising Giant: China’s Food Import Strategy and Its Constraints

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