We have begun to publish Volume 2 of the _Journal of World-Systems Research_.
The next batch includes an article by Political Scientist Daniel Whiteneck
on epistemic communities and an article by Historian W. Warren Wagar on his
ideas about the future of the world-system and political practice. Wagar
proposes the formation of a World Party to carry through the project of
global democratic socialism. Included with his article are thirteen comments
by Sociologists, Political Scientists and activists. Perhaps Wagar's article
and the comments might serve as a topic for discussion on wsn. JWSR is
primarily an outlet for research articles on world-systems, but Wagar's
ideas are so important that we have included them despite our determination
that JWSR not become a political magazine.
Volume 2 of JWSR is available for free from
http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html
chris
Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA
tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu