A special thematic section in Volume 2 of the _Journal of World-Systems
Research_ is devoted to "global praxis and the future of the world-system."
This section contains thirteen thoughtful comments by scholars and activists
on a paper by W. Warren Wagar, the Binghamton historian who wrote
_A Short History of the Future_. The section also includes Wagar's response,
and to that has been added his commentary on the critique offered by David
Wilkinson, Political Science, UCLA.
Now that things are a bit quieter on WSN, I am wondering if subscribers
might have the time and inclination to read and discuss the Wagar set. The
issues -- world state formation, the world party, etc. -- overlap greatly
with many of the themes that have already been considered on WSN this
summer. These are matters that will be the stuff of world politics for
the next decades. Have a look.
http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/jwsr.html
or csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/journals
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