The annual meeting of the International Studies Association will take
place in San Diego, April l6-20. For those who will attend, the world
historical systems sub-section will be sponsoring a number of events.
Wednesday Panel C-24
Roundtable: World Development and World History: On Andre Gunder Frank
Chair: Sing Chew
Humboldt State
Papers: "Asia in the World System"
George Asiniero
United Nations University
"The Construction of Frank Justice Rather Than Frankenstein
Injustice"
Pat Lauderdale
Arizona State University
"Geography Sees A Single World"
Phil Wagner
Simon Fraser University
"Let's Be Frank About World History"
Albert Bergesen
University of Arizona
Response: Andre Gunder Frank
***** Thursday Panel A-25 *****
Civilizations and World Politics
This is the third annual panel focusing on a body of work by a
single author.
Chair: Sandra Halperin
University of Pittsburgh
Paper: "Civilizations and World Politics"
David Wilkinson
UCLA
Discussants: Elena Ermolaeva
Johns Hopkins University
Kajsa Ekholm
University of Lund
Robert A. Denemark
University of Delaware
Chris Chase-Dunn
Johns Hopkins University
***** Thursday Panel B - 25 *****
Pulsations in World Historical Development
Chair: Barry K. Gills
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Papers: "Capital and Power in the Process of World Historical
Development: A Perennial Political Economy"
Barry K. Gills
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
"Pulsations in the World System"
George Modelski
University of Washington
and
William Thompson
Indiana Univeristy
"The Social Structuring of Decline"
Jonathan Friedman
University of Lund
and
Kajsa Ekholm
University of Lund
"Pulsation, Hegemonic Shift, or Crisis: Re-Assessing the 'Rise
of the West' from a World ystem Perspective"
Andre Gunder Frank
University of Amsterdam
"The Comparative Study of Pulsations in Different Kinds of
World-Systems"
Chris Chase-Dunn
Johns Hopkins University
and
Tom Hall
DePauw University
Discussant: Robert A. Denemark
University of Delaware
**** Thursday C - 25 ****
Greening World System Theory
Chair: Albert Bergesen
University of Arizona
Papers: "Oscillations in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Long Swings of
Production in the World Economy, l790-l990."
Peter Grimes
Johns Hopkins University
"Population, Long Economic Waves, Deforestation, and World History"
Sing Chew
Humboldt State University
"Toxic Waste Emissions in the International Stytem: A
Cross-National Analysis"
Albert Bergesen
University of Arizona
"Environmental Disputes and the International Context"
Calvin Morrill
University of Arizona
***** WHS Business Meeting: Friday l2:l5, Dover Room. *****
PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND
Agenda: l. Next Year's Panels
2. Publication Plans for Volume of Papers Presented at WHS
conference in Lund, Sweden
3. Planning for Next WHS Conference