America's changing role in the world-system

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America's changing role in the world-system

edited by Terry Boswell and Albert Bergesen

Praeger, 1987

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Over the last two decades, America's position in the world has declined and the world economy has suffered an extended period of stagnation resulting in a severe sociopolitical crisis. This volume brings together thirteen experts in world-systems analysis to examine the long-term effects of this crisis in world order. Using historical and quantitative analysis, the contributors both theoretically and empirically discuss possible transformations of U.S. society and the world-system, focusing on North-South trade, East-West conflicts, and the relations of the United States with Europe, Japan, and Central America. The effects of this economic crisis on American social life are explored in depth, with emphasis on the organization of business firms, the status of women, and the state of American culture.

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Introduction American Prospects in a Period of Hegemonic Decline and Economic Crisis by T. Boswell and A. Bergesen Part I: Continuity and Change in the Structure of the World-System The United States and the World "Crisis" by I. Wallerstein Political Ironies in the World Economy by A.G. Frank Cycles, Trends, or Transformation?: The World System Since 1945 by C. Chase-Dunn Socialism or Barbarism?: The Long-Run Fate of the Capitalist World Economy by W.L. Goldfrank Part II: The Political Economy of Hegemonic Decline Accumulation Innovations in the American Economy: The Affinity for Japanese Solutions to the Current Crisis by T. Boswell World-System Structure, National Development, and the Prospects for a Socialist World Order by E.L. Kick America and the Changing Structure of Hegemonic Production by A. Bergesen, R. Fernandez, and C. Sahoo The United States and the Third World: Institutional Conflicts and Particular Agreements by S. Krasner United States Military Aid and Coups D'Etat in the Third World by E. Muller and E. Zimmerman Part III: The Impact of the World Crisis on American Society The Decline of American Art by A. Bergesen America's Legitimating Myths: Continuity and Crisis by R. Wuthnow Global Changes, World Myths, and the Demise of Cultural Gender: Implications for the United States by F. Ramirez The Impoverishment of U.S. Women and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony by K. Ward

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