Table of Contents:
  • World networks and the politics of world-economy
  • Patterns and prospectives of the capitalist world-economy
  • 1.
  • The states and the interstate system:
  • The states in the institutional vortex of the capitalist world-economy
  • The tree instances of hegemony in the history of capitalist world-economy
  • The withering away of the states
  • Friends as foes
  • The USA in the world today
  • The world-economy and the state-structures in peripheral and dependent countries (the so-called Third World)
  • Socialist states: mercantilist strategies and revolutionary objectives
  • 2.
  • Antisystemic movements:
  • The future of world-economy
  • Eurocommunism: its roots in European working-class history
  • Nationalism and the world transition to socialism: is there a crisis?
  • Revolutionary movements in the era of US hegemony and after
  • 3.
  • The civilizational project:
  • The quality of life in different social systems: the model and the reality
  • Civilization and modes of production: conflicts and convergences
  • The dialectics of civilizations in the modern world-system
  • The development of the concept of development.