This is to announce some additions to Volume 2 of the Journal of
World-Systems Research. The first is an excellent essay by Giovanni
Arrighi, the new President-elect of the Political Economy of the
World-System section of the American Sociological Association. Giovanni's
essay discusses the rise of East Asia and its meaning for the
contemporary global system.
Number 15 Giovanni Arrighi
The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate
System
Volume 2 of JWSR also now contains for new book reviews and a response by
authors to an earlier review:
Book Reviews
Review 1 World Resources Institute
World Resources 1994-95: A Guide to the Global Environment
Reviewed by Brad Bullock
Review 2 Miguel E. Korzeniewicz, Gary Gereffi, and Roberto Patricio
Korzeniewicz
Response to Dunaway and Clelland
Review 3 York W. Bradshaw and Michael Wallace
Global Inequalities
Reviewed by Robert J.S. Ross
Review 4 Sing C. Chew and Robert A. Denemark, eds.
The Underdevelopment of Development: Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder
Frank
Reviewed by Stephen K. Sanderson
Review 5 Wilma Dunaway
The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern
Appalachia, 1700-1860
Reviewed by Michael Timberlake
Thanks to the reviewers and to Book Review Editor Dale Wimberley for
their helpful work.
Chris Chase-Dunn