2010-2011

World-Systems/Globalization Reading List

(Revised 06/2010)

1. WALLERSTEIN’S WORLD-SYSTEM SINCE THE 16TH CENTURY

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1974. The Modern World-System. Vol. 1. New York: Academic Press.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1998. Global Formation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Bergesen, Albert J. 1980. Studies of the Modern World-System. New York: Academic Press.

Arrighi, Giovanni and Beverly J. Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Boswell, Terry and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2000. The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism.
Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers.

2. THE STANFORD SCHOOL OF WORLD POLITY/WORLD SOCIETY

THEORY/RESEARCH

Arrighi, Giovanni. "Braudel, Capitalism, and the New Economic Sociology," XXIV,
1, 2001, 107-23.

Boli, John and George M. Thomas (eds.) 1999. Constructing World Culture: International
Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Martinelli, Alberto. 2005. "From World System to World Society?" Journal of

World-Systems Research XI (2): 241-260.

Meyer, John W., et. al. 1997. World Society and the Nation State. American Journal of
Sociology. 103: 144-181.

Meyer, John W. and Ronald Jepperson. 2000. The ‘Actors’ of Modern Society: The Cultural
Construction of Social Agency. Sociological Theory 18: 100-120.

Meyer, John W., et al. 1997. “The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870-1990.”
International Organization, 51(4): 623-651.
Ramirez, Francisco O., Yasemin Soysal, and Suzanne Shanahan. 1997. “The Changing Logic of
Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women’s Suffrage Rights, 1890-
1990” American Sociological Review 62: 735-745.

Schwartzman, Kathleen C. 2006. Globalization from a World-System Perspective: A New Phase

in the Core-- a New Destiny for Brazil and the Semiperiphery. Journal of World-System
Research. Vol 12, no 2: 265-307.

3. ONE CONTINUOUS WORLD-SYSTEM OVER WORLD HISTORY

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Tomas D. Hall. 1997. Rise and Demise: Comparing World-
Systems.

Frank, Andre Gunder. 1998. ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley:
University of California Press.

Blaut, J. M. 1993. The Colonizer’s Model of the World. New York: The Guilford Press.

Denemark, Robert A, et. al. 2000. World-System History: The Social Science of Long-Term
Change. London: Routledge.

Steven K. Sanderson (ed.) Civilizations and World Systems. Walnut Creek, CA. Altamira Press.

4. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: TESTING WORLD-SYSTEM/DEPENDENCY

THEORIES

Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1975. The Effects of International Economic Dependence on

Development and Inequality: A Cross-National Study. American Sociological Review
40: 720-738.

Bornschier, Volker, et. al. 1978. Cross-National Evidence of the Effects of Foreign Investment
and Aid on Economic Growth and Inequality: A Survey of Findings and A Reanalysis.
American Journal of Sociology 84: 651-683.

Firebaugh, Glenn. 1992. Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment. American
Journal of Sociology. 98: 105-130.

Dixon, William J. and Terry Boswell. 1996. Dependency, Disarticulation and Denominator
Effects: Another Look at Foreign Capital Penetration. American Journal of Sociology
102: 543-562.

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Bunker, Stephen. 1984. Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Under-Development
of an Extreme Periphery: The Brazilian Amazon, 1600-1980. American Journal of
Sociology 89: 1017-1064.

Arrighi, Giovanni, Beverly J. Silver, and Benjamin D. Brewer. 2003. Industrial

Convergence, Globalization, and the Persistence of the North-South Divide. Studies in
Comparative International Development. 38: 3-31.

5. WORLD SYSTEM & POLITICAL PROCESSES

John Walton and Charles Ragin. 1990. “Global National Sources of Protest: Third World
Responses to the Debt Crisis”. American Sociological Review 55: 876-890.

Schwartzman, Kathleen C. 1998. “Globalization and Democracy”. Annual Review of Sociology

24: 159-181.

Silver, Beverly J. 2003. Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870.
New York: Cambridge University Press.

6. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH: GLOBALIZATION/DEPENDENCY

Chase-Dunn, Christopher; Kawano, Yukio and Benjamin D. Brewer. 2000. “Trade

Globalization since 1795: Waves of Integration in the World-System” American
Sociological Review 65, 1, Feb, 77-95.

Shandra, John M. 2007. ‘Economic Dependency, Repression, and Deforestation: A Quantitative,

Cross-National Analysis.’ Sociological Inquiry 77, No. 4 (November): 543–571.

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