Dear Thomas,
Wallerstein, of course, has a couple of appropriate articles. One is called
America: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow. The Gulf war is interpreted there
as a dangerous sign of decline of the US hegemony, something that would
have never happened had the USSR been around (I agree, as former Soviet
officer, I know some details about how we handled the Third World allies.)
A very elegant piece, stylish tour de force, Immanuel at his best. It was
published in IW's collection of essays After Liberalism (New Press, 1996),
if I am not mistaken.
Also take the recent book Wallerstein and Hopkins (coord.) The Age of
Transition: Trajectory of the World-System, 1945 - 2025. (L., Zed Press,
1997)
This is a comprehensive volume, which covers everything from geopolitics
and economy to social movements (my own chapter), the current trajectory of
sciences and arts. In the chapter on social movements (the Social Cohesion
of the States), in the very end, I argue that the Green movements are the
only available gamble for preserving the capitalist system as we know it, a
major humanitarian issue with usually unnoticed bureaucratic and political
implications, like Abolitionism in the early 19th century.
The Age of Transition goes nicely with Huntington's Clash of Civilizations
in my courses. Nice contrast.
Good luck,
Georgi
Georgi M. Derluguian
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
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