PEWs conference at Northwestern Univ.

Wed, 04 Mar 1998 15:17:07 -0500
christopher chase-dunn (chriscd@jhu.edu)

From: Georgi M. Derluguian
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
1812 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
(847) 491-2741 (rabota)
gderlug@nwu.edu

the annual PEWS conference will meet at Northwestern University March
21-23, 1998.

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE WORLD-SYSTEM (PEWS)

XXII ANNUAL CONFERENCE,
HOSTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND THE CENTER FOR
INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES, NORTHWESTERN UNIVRSITY

THE SHIFTING GEOPOLITICS OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM

(Preliminary schedule)

March 21, Saturday Arrival of the participants. Hotels: Omni Orrington,
Janet's Place (both in
downtown Evanston)

March 22, Sunday
Scott Hall (Political Science department, Northwestern Evanston campus)

14:00 Opening remarks
14:15 Keynote speaker: Stephen Gill

15:15 Coffee break

15:30 HEGEMONY AND THE CORE TRIAD: GEOPOLITICS IN THE EARLY 21st CENTURY

Michael Loriaux (Northwestern, Political Science). International
Morality Norms
Burçu Bostanoglu (Bilkent and Gazi University, Ankara) Hegemony:
thinking about competition
and collusion in tandem
Adam Webb (Princeton, Pol Sci) Timeless Clashes: A Value-Bloc Analysis
of Hegemony and
Systemic Evolution
Discussant: Immanuel Wallerstein (SUNY-Binghamton, Fernand Braudel
Center)
17:00 Break

17:15 WORLD WARS, WORLD PEACE, WORLD-EMPIRE? THE DEBATE
Randall Collins (University of Pennsylvania, Socioogy) Geopolitical
Theory and the World-System

Giovanni Arrighi & Thomas Ehrlich Reifer (SUNY-Binghamton, Sociology)
"Geopolitics and
High Finance: Does World Power Still Come Out of the Barrel of the Gun?"
Walter Goldfrank (UC-Santa Cruz, SociologyNew Hegemon Produced by New
World War?
(provisional title)
Daniel Chirot (Univ. of Washington, Sociology) "Why must there be a last
cycle? Capitalism's
enduring power of adaptation, and what might destroy it."
Discussant: Bruce Cumings

19:30 DINNER (Szechwan Palace, 1629 Chicago Ave. Evanston; walking from
campus)

March 23 Monday

Harris Hall 108 (History Department, Northwestern Evanston campus)

9:30 REFORMULATED SEMI-PERIPHERIES
Xianming Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago) The Geoeconomic
Reconfiguration of the State:
The New Transborder Subregions of the Asia-Pacific
Georgi Derluguian (Northwestern, Sociology) Russia: The Sick Bully of
Eurasia? Trajectory of a
protection costs monopoly, 1550-2000.
Isabella Alcaniz (Northwestern, Political Science) Slipping into
Something More Comfortable: The
Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the MERCOSUR
Discussant: Meredith Woo-Cumings

11:00 - break

11:15 PERIPHERIES AND MARGINS IN THE PERIOD OF GLOBALIZATION
Scott Greer (Northwestern, Pol Sci) Mutual Benefit? African Elites and
French African Policy
Steven Sherman (SUNY-Binghamton, Sociology) The Clash of Civilizations
and Multiculturalism
Charles Ragin and Bernie Beck (Northwestern, Sociology) The global
middle classes and radical
localisms in Barber's Jihad versus the MacWorld
Discussant: Randall Collins

12:45-13:45 LUNCH

14:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Arif Dirlik (Duke, History)

15:00 - break

15:15 RESOURCES AND COMPETITION IN THE WORLD-ECONOMY
Michael Sacks, Brian Uzzi and Marc Ventresca (Northwestern, Organization
Behavior/Sociology)
Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network
Approach to Assessing Nation
Status, 1965-1980.
Bruce Podobnik (Johns Hopkins, Sociology) Geopolitical Competition and
Global Energy Industries
in World-Historical Perspective.
Deniz Yenal (SUNY-Binghamton, Sociology) The Emergence of an Informal
Trade Network
between Turkey and Russia in the Wake of the Soviet Collapse.
Discussant: Michael Wallerstein (Northwestern, Political Science)

16:45 - break

17:00 ANTI-SYSTEMIC MOVEMENTS
Tom Hall (DePauw, Sociology) Resistance to Culturicide: Processes of
continuing Incorporation of
Indigenous Peoples into the Modern World-System
Galip Isen (Head of the Deptartment of International Relations,
International American University,
Kyrenia, North Cyprus) The Weapon of the Weak: Hegemony, World Peace and
Terrorism in the
'World-Wide War'.
Jean Rossiaud (Switzerland) The emergence of a world-side citizenship
movement (L'émergence
d'un movement de citoyens à l'échelle mondiale.)
Discussant: Bill Martin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Sociology)

18:30 FINAL SESSION

20:00 DINNER at the Korean restaurant

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, at 16:00 (an event unrelated to PEWS XXII)

Immanuel Wallerstein, Director,
Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems,
and Civilizations
(Binghamton University)
Open Social Science.
Considerations on the Gulbenkian Committee Report.

Public Lecture
Harris Hall 108
(History Department, Northwestern Evanston campus)