Mark et al are usefully pointing to a number of things that need to be
rethought. At the risk of being too self-promoting, in Rise & Demise,
Chap 4 on incorporation, we do discuss precisely this type of problem as
the MERGER of formerly separate world-systems. While a type of
incorporation, it is substantially different from garden variety
incorporation as discussed in conventional WST, and very different from
incorporation of non-state peoples as I have discussed it (mostly in
_Social Change in the Southwest_). But I think we have barely scratched
the surface of the problem. It may well be the case that the
incorporation/merger of Asia with Western Eurasia will force to rethink
the entire process, or to recognize this as a very different type of
process than more conventional incorporation/colonization.
tom
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