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Economic Globalization since 1790: structures and cycles in the modernworld-system

by christopher chase-dunn

22 February 1999 21:35 UTC

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<CENTER><FONT FACE="Desdemona"><FONT SIZE=+3>Economic Globalization since
1795: structures and cycles in the modern world-system</FONT></FONT></CENTER>

<CENTER><FONT FACE="Garamond">Christopher Chase-Dunn</FONT></CENTER>

<CENTER><FONT FACE="Garamond">Yukio Kawano</FONT></CENTER>

<CENTER><FONT FACE="Garamond">Benjamin Brewer</FONT></CENTER>

<CENTER><FONT FACE="Garamond">Department of Sociology</FONT></CENTER>

<CENTER><FONT FACE="Garamond">Johns Hopkins University</FONT></CENTER>

<CENTER><FONT FACE="Garamond">Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA</FONT></CENTER>
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<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">To be presented at the International Studies
Association session on "Globalization in Contemporary and Historical Perspective,"
Section on Comparative Interdisciplinary Studies, Washington, DC, February
29, 1999. The graphic above is a network visualization of the global automobile
trade in 1994 from Krempel and Pluemper.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=-1>2-16-99.
Draft. Please do not quote without permission. Comments and criticisms
to chriscd@jhu.edu</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=-1>This paper is available at http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/archive/papers/c-d&amp;hall/toc.htm</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">ABSTRACT: The term globalization is used in social
science and in popular discourse to mean quite a number of different things.
We contend that it is important to distinguish between globalization as
a contemporary political ideology and globalization as the increasing density
of globe-wide interaction networks relative to the density of national-level
networks, which we call structural globalization. This paper conceptualizes
and begins to operationalize several important types of structural globalization.
And we present the results of our study of one type of economic globalization:
the trajectory of international trade as a proportion of global production
over the past 200 years.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">One big disagreement among social science approaches
to globalization is the temporal form that is assumed regarding changes
in the structure of the world economy. Many social scientists believe that
there was a period in the recent past in which national economies were
independent entities, and that a new global economy has emerged in the
last decades in which national societies have become integrated into a
global network of trade and an interdependent division of labor. A rather
different approach imagines a long-term trend toward greater and greater
globalization as transportation and communications costs have declined.
And yet another approach asserts a cyclical process of phases of increased
integration followed by phases in which national economies or subregions
return to more autarchic economic interactions. Our study is relevant to
these divergent temporal images and to the important conceptual and theoretical
issues that are linked with them.</FONT>
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<CENTER><FONT FACE="Bookman Old Style"><FONT SIZE=+1>Table of Contents</FONT></FONT></CENTER>
<FONT FACE="Garamond">Introduction</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Structural Globalization</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unit of Analysis: The Whole
System</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">Trade Globalization</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Average Openness</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Weighting</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Checking</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">Three Waves and a Trend</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">Explanations</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">Integration and World Order</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Garamond">References</FONT>
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