BOOKS:
Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy
Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds
The Historical Evolution of the International Political Economy
Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems
The Wintu and Their Neighbors: A Very Small World-System in Northern California
The Future of Global Conflict
The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism

Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Development and Democracy

Social Change: World Historical Social Transformations.

Hegemonic Declines: Present and Past

The Historical Evolution of World-Systems

Global Social Change: A Reader

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Global Formation:
Structures of the World-Economy

Dedicated to my daughters
Cori, Mae and Frances

Second Edition published by Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
Abstract and Table of Contents

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Core/Periphery Relations in Precapitalist Worlds, edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. 1991. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.  Now out of print. Available electronically: http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/books/c-p/cprel.htm

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The Historical Evolution of the International Political Economy Editor: Christopher Chase-Dunn
Professor of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA
chriscd@jhu.edu
Library of International Political Economy
Edward Elgar, Publishing Limited

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Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems. Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. 1997. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.  This book compares the modern global world-system with earlier regional intersocietal systems. Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas Hall propose an evolutionary theory that explains how myriad small-scale systems became unified into a single global system over the last ten thousand years. Their theory focuses on semiperipheral societies as agents of expansion and transformation of political structures and economic networks and suggests how basic transformation might occur in the future.  Ordering Info (or call 1-800-386-5656).

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University of Arizona Press:

The Wintu and Their Neighbors:
A Very Small World-System in
Northern California
Christopher Chase-Dunn
and
Kelly M. Mann

On the cutting edge of world-systems theory comes The Wintu and Their Neighbors, the first case study to compare and contrast systematically an indigenous Native American society with the modern world at large. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, and history, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M. Mann have scoured the archaeological record of the Wintu, an aboriginal people without agriculture, mettallurgy, or class structure, who lived in the wooded valleys and hills of Northern California. By studying the household composition, kinship, and trade relations of the Wintu, they call into question some of the basic assumptions of prior sociological theory and analysis.
Chase-Dunn and Mann argue that Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems perspective, originally applied only to the study of modern capitalist societies, can also be applied to the study of social, economic, and political relationships in small, stateless societies. They contend that despite the fact that the Wintu appear on the surface to have been a household-based society, this indigenous groups was in fact involved in a myriad of networks of interaction that resulted in intermarriages and that extended for many miles around the region. These interactions, which were not based on the economic dominance of one society over another -- a concept fundamental to Wallerstein's world-systems theory -- led to the eventual expansion of the Wintu as a cultural group.  Thus, despite the fact that the Wintu lacked wealth accumulation, class distinctions, and culture dominance, Chase-Dunn and Mann insist that the Wintu were involved in a world-system and argue, therefore, that they concept of the "minisystem" should be discarded. They urge other scholars to employ this comparative world-systems perspective in their research on stateless societies.

This book is a close study of a very small world-system in Northern California. The comparative world-systems perspective examines the structures and developmental patterns of intersocietal networks, be they small or global. The modern world-system is a complex, hierarchical intercontinental system that encompasses the whole Earth. An important structural feature of the modern system is the core/periphery hierarchy composed of developed and developing countries. Beginning about twelve thousand years ago nomadic foragers in the Near East settled into villages creating the first mesolithic sedentary societies. These first sedentary foragers -- the Natufians -- interacted in important ways with neighboring nomads, creating the first instance of a differentiated core/periphery relationship. Such small scale egalitarian societies continued to exist in Northern California until they were disrupted by the Gold Rush of 1849.

The native Californians at the north end of the Sacramento Valley were sedentary and territorial hunter-gatherers who interacted with one another across major linguistic boundaries by means of trade, warfare, intergroup celebrations and cross-cultural intermarriage networks. We studied the social geography of this regional system to determine if any of the intergroup interaction patterns could be construed as core/periphery relations. We conclude that this was a system in which fundamentally egalitarian intersocietal relations were being reproduced, though some aspects of intergroup relations exhibited mild, and perhaps incipient, forms of intersocietal hierarchy.

This case study of the Wintu and their neighbors has important implications for sorting out the structural similarities and differences between smaller and larger world-systems. Despite being quite small in comparative perspective, the Northern California world-system was not a "minisystem" in which a single culture encompassed all systemically important interactions. As with most other world-systems, important interactions were occurring across major cultural and linguistic boundaries. Core/periphery hierarchy was a very mild affair. The valley-dwelling Wintu were expanding into the territory of surrounding hill peoples, but the rate and methods of expansion and incorporation were slow and non-exploitative, especially in comparison with the process of genocide and forced incorporation that occurred when the modern world-system engulfed the indigenes of Northern California. We postulate hypothetical alternative outcomes based on a theory of world-systems evolution to imagine what might have happened in Northern California if the indigenous peoples of this region had not been violently incorporated into the expanding capitalist world-economy. This study contributes knowledge of an important case to the research program known as the comparative world-systems perspective and sheds new light on the unique aspects of the cultures and social structures created by the indigenous peoples of Northern California.

Appendices

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London in the Sage Studies in International Sociology Series.:

Future of Global Conflict
Volker Bornschier and  Christopher Chase-Dunn  (eds.)

This book addresses the question of future competition for hegemony in the core of the global system. The authors, both sociologists and political scientists, construct scenarios and examine long terms trends and cycles of the global system to inform their judgements about possible and probable futures. The core of the modern world-system has experienced a series of hegemonic rises and declines for centuries. The Dutch were hegemonic in the European world-economy of the seventeenth century. The British rose to hegemony in the nineteenth century, and the United States emerged as the economic and military hegemon of the twentieth century. The U.S. economic hegemony is now declining and the question upon which this book focusses is whether or not the cycles of the rise and fall of hegemonic core powers will be replaced by a new supranational structure of competition and cooperation in the next two or three decades. Will a more pacific global system of economic competition and cooperation replace the the combination of economic competition and military conflict that has been the modus operandi of the world-system for centuries? Which countries or regions have strong prospects for a future hegemonic position? Several of the contributing authors evaluate the hegemonic prospects of the United States, Germany, German-led Europe, Japan and China.
Published in May 1999.

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Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy
Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn

 At the core of this book is the argument that, though the word "socialism" is widely held in disdain in the current discourse about the world's past and its future, the idea of socialism as collective rationality and popular democracy is far from dead.

 Boswell and Chase-Dunn describe a spiral of capitalism and socialism—of economic expansion  and social progress—that creates repeated opportunities for positive transformation at the global  level. They contend that social democracy is both desirable and possible at the level of the  world-system. And they present a straight-forward, compelling case in support of that contention.

 The first section of the book explains the structural dynamics of the world-system. The second  explores the great failures, and the limited successes, that were the outcome of efforts to build a  state socialist "second world." A final section addresses the possible futures of the world-system  and, especially, how to move realistically toward global democracy.

Terry Boswell was professor of sociology at Emory University. He is author of America's  Changing Role in the World-System and Revolution in the World-System.
Christopher  Chase-Dunn is professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His recent publications  include and Global Conflict in the Future.

CONTENTS:

      The Political Economy of the Capitalist World-System.
      World Divides and World Revolutions.
      The Revolutions of 1989.
      The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism.
      Getting Past the Post.
      The Future of the World-System.
 January 2000/270 Pages
 ISBN: 1-55587-824-5 HC $55.00
 ISBN: 1-55587-849-0 PB $23.50
 LC: 99-16269
Lynne Rienner, Publishers. Boulder, CO. Power and Social Change: Studies in Political Sociology

SPIRAL:
x = z cos z
 y = z sin z

Hanul Publishing Company, Seoul, Korea (www.hanulbooks.co.kr) isbn 89-460-3253-7

Guatamalan Development and Democracy

<>Christopher Chase-Dunn, Nelson Amaro and Susanne Jonas (eds.) 2001 Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Globalization on the Ground offers us an in-depth picture of the prospects and difficulties of a democratic transition in Guatemala following its civil war. Its story, told by Guatemalan and U.S. scholars, has lessons about power and ethnicity applicable around the globe, and should be read by far more than the area specialists. It is the story of the uncertain hopes of our current world scene.”

Immanuel Wallerstein

Part I: The Future of Guatemalan Development

Chapter 1: Guatemalan Development and Democracy

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Susanne Jonas and Nelson Amaro

Chapter 2: Development and Equity: the Agenda for the 21^st Century,

Rosenthal Former Guatemalan Ambassador to the United Nations

Chapter 3: Global forces and regime change: Guatemala with

the Central American context

John Booth University of North Texas

Chapter 4: Democratization Through Peace: The Difficult

Case of Guatemala

Susanne Jonas University of California, Santa Cruz

Chapter 5: Decentralization, Local Government and Citizen

Participation: Unsolved Problems in the Guatemalan

Democratization Process

Nelson Amaro Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

Chapter 6: Demilitarization and security in El Salvador and

Guatemala: Convergences of Success and Crisis

Douglas Kincaid Florida International University

Chapter 7: Democracy and the Market in Guatemala

Edelberto Torres-Rivas UNSRID/GUATEMALA.

Chapter 8: Coffee and the Guatemalan state

Stephen Bunker University of Wisconsin

Part III: Indigenous Movements and Social Change

Chapter 9: Pan-Mayanism and the Guatemalan Peace Process

Kay B. Warren Harvard University

Chapter 10: The development of globalization in the Mayan

population

Jose Serech CEDIM/Guatemala

Chapter 11: Linguistic diversity, interculturalism and democracy

Michael Richards and Julia Richards Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

Part IV: Globalization on the Ground

Chapter 12: Neo-liberalism, the global elite, and the Guatemalan

transition

William Robinson University of California, Santa Barbara

Chapter 13: Globalization from below in Guatemala

Christopher Chase-Dunn University of California, Riverside

Chapter 14: Theories of Development and their Application to Small Countries: The Guatemalan Case

Alejandro Portes Princeton University

Social Change:

World Historical Social Transformations

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Lerro,  Forthcoming Allyn and Bacon.

PART I FRAMEWORK

Chapter 1 History and Social Evolution

Chapter 2 The Comparative World-Systems Perspective

Chapter 3 Building a Social Self: The Macro-Micro Link

PART II STATELESS SOCIETIES

Chapter 4 World-Systems of Hunter-Gatherers

Chapter 5 The Gardeners

Chapter 6 North-American World-Systems Before The Chiefs

Chapter 7 The Sacred Chiefs

PART III STATE BASED SYSTEMS

Chapter 8 The Temple And The Palace

Chapter 9 Cognitive Evolution in the Bronze and Iron Ages

Chapter 10 The Early Empires: Semiperipheral Conquerors and Capitalist City-State

Chapter 11 The Central System and East/West Synchrony in Afroeurasia

PART IV THE LONG RISE OF CAPITALISM

Chapter 12 The Rise of the West

Chapter 13 The Modern World-System

Chapter 14 The Early Modern System

Chapter 16 The Consolidation of Individualism and Cognitive Evolution Under Capitalism

Chapter 17 The Nineteenth Century Wave of Globalization

Chapter 18 The Long Twentieth Century

Chapter 19: Late Globalization

Chapter 20 The Future of the Global System

Hegemonic Declines:

Present and Past

Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.) 2005. Boulder, CO.: Paradigm Press.

The United States is currently the world's only military and economic superpower. But the September 11th terrorist attacks, widely spread unhappiness with U.S. policies among both allies and challengers, and growing discontent with U.S.-led corporate globalization may be signs that the nation's superpower status may not last. The place of the United States in the global system of power is one of the main problems that is examined by prominent sociologists, anthropologists and geographers from all over the world in this integrated collection of essays on the phenomenon of hegemonic decline.

This book addresses the difficulties of conceptualizing and assessing hegemonic rise and decline in comparative and historical perspective. Several chapters are devoted to the study of hegemony in premodern and early modern world-systems. And several chapters examine hegemony in the modern world-system, especially comparing the current era of United States primacy with the earlier Dutch and British hegemonies. A final section considers resistance movements and hegemonic transitions by studying transnational indigenism and the relationship between terrorism and hegemonic decline.

The possible futures of the global system are illuminated by careful study of its past and comparisons with power processes in the premodern ages.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn

Part I: On the Way to the Modern World-System

Chapter 1

Johnny Persson, Social Anthropology, University of Lund

"Escaping a closed universe: World-system crisis, regional dynamics and the rise of Aegean palatial society"

Chapter 2

Kasja Ekholm, Social Anthropology, University of Lund

"The final collapse of the Mediterranean-Egyptian-Near Eastern Bronze Age as a global systemic phenomenon."

Chapter 3

Jonathan Friedman, Social Anthropology, University of Lund and

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

"Plus ca change? On not learning from history"

Part II: Comparing Modern Hegemonic Declines

Chapter 4

Peter Taylor, Geography, Loughborough University,

"The problem of Dutch hegemonic decline and its relationship to globalization."

Chapter 5

Karen Barkey, Sociology, Columbia University "A perspective on Ottoman decline”

Chapter 6

Beverly Silver and Giovanni Arrighi, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University,

" Polanyi's “double movement”: The belle epoques of British and U.S. hegemony compared"

Chapter 7

Thomas Reifer, Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California, Riverside

"Hegemonic transitions, globalization and global elite formation."

Part III: Hegemonic Decline and Resistance

Chapter 8

Thomas D. Hall, Sociology, DePauw University, and James Fenelon, Sociology, Cal State, San Bernardino,

"Indigenous peoples and hegemonic change: opportunities for resistance or dangerous times?"

Chapter 9

Albert Bergesen and Omar Lizardo, Sociology, University of Arizona,

"Terrorism and hegemonic decline."

The Historical Evolution

of World-Systems

Christopher Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson (eds.) 2005.  London: Palgrave.

Isbn 1-4039-6590-0

This book analyses the historical evolution of world-systems. The chapters consider various aspects of the rise and fall of great powers as seen in particular cases from early time periods. Taken together, they advance our understanding of the regularities in the dynamics of empire and economic expansion since the Bronze Age.

The authors all share a world historical systems perspective on large-scale social change. They analyze the expansion and contraction of cross-cultural trade networks and systems of competing and allying states. In premodern times, these ranged from small local trading networks (even the very small ones of hunting-gathering peoples) to the vast Mongol world-system (Genghis Khan’s empire and the much larger area it affected deeply). Within such systems, there is usually one, or a very few, hegemonic powers (again, the range is from the overwhelming dominance of the Mongols under Genghis down to such things as the brief and tenuous hold of the Portuguese on power at the start of the modern world-system).

A great deal of scholarship has been engaged in recent years on the questions of how such systems change, and how certain powers achieve varying degrees of dominance within them. The chapters in this book review several recent approaches and present a wealth of new findings. Two of the chapters address the rise of the West and the recent debates over why the European powers were eventually able to outpace the complex societies of South and East Asia. And one of the chapters addresses the political ecology of hegemonic competition within the modern world-system.

The book is aimed primarily at scholars in history and the social sciences, but may also have a broader appeal. It will be of interest to those who care to understand the rise and fall of empires and the regularities in historical processes over space and time; it could thus have a wide readership. It should also prove useful in advanced college courses in world history, world-systems theory, and human ecology.

Table of Contents

Preface, Christopher Chase-Dunn and E. N. Anderson

Chapter 1 E. N. Anderson and Christopher Chase-Dunn

“The Rise and Fall of Great Powers”

Chapter 2: William Thompson, Political Science, Indiana University,

" Eurasian C-Wave Crises In The First Millennium B.C."

Chapter 3: Sing Chew, Sociology, Humboldt State University,

"From Harappa to Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mycenae: Dark Ages, Hegemonial Shifts, and Environmental/Climatic Changes 2200BC-700BC."

Chapter 4: Mitchell Allen, Anthropology, Santa Clara University,

"Power Is In The Details: Administrative Technology and the Growth of Ancient Near Eastern Cores."

Chapter 9: Stephen Bunker, Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison and

Paul Ciccantell, Sociology, Western Michigan University

"Matter, Space and Technology in past and future hegemonies."

Global Social Change:

Comparative and Historical Perspectives

edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones $55.00 hardcover 0-8018-8423-3 2006 384 pp. 23 line drawings $26.95 paperback 0-8018-8424-1 2006 384 pp. 23 line drawings

Johns Hopkins University Press – Baltimore

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/9073.html

The essays in Global Social Change explore globalization from a world-systems perspective, untangling its many contested meanings. This perspective offers insights into globalization's gradual and uneven growth throughout the course of human social evolution.

In this informative and exciting volume, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones bring together accomplished senior sociologists and outstanding younger scholars with a mix of interests, expertise, and methodologies to offer an introduction to ways of studying and understanding global social change.

In both newly written essays and previously published articles from the Journal of World Systems Research, the contributors employ historical and comparative social science to examine the development of institutions of global governance, the rise and fall of hegemonic core states, transnational social movements, and global environmental challenges. They compare post–World War II globalization with the great wave of economic integration that occurred in the late nineteenth century, analyze the rise of the political ideology of the "globalization project"—Reaganism-Thatcherism—and discuss issues of gender and global inequalities.

Christopher Chase-Dunn is a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California–Riverside. Salvatore J. Babones is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.

More information on the authors and their research at Christopher Chase-Dunn's and Salvatore J. Babones' websites.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones

Chapter 2: Conducting Global Research, Salvatore Babones

Part 1: What is Globalization?
 Chapter 3: Thomas D. Hall and Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Global Social Change in the Long Run”

Chapter 4: Leslie Sklair, “Competing Conceptions of Globalization”
 Chapter 5: Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Globalization: a world-systems perspective”

Part 2: Global Inequality
Chapter 6: Jonathan Turner and Salvatore Babones “Global Inequality: An Introduction”
Chapter 7: Bruce Podobnik “Global Energy Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term Implications”

Part 3: Globalization and the Environment
Chapter 8: Alf Hornborg, Ecosystems and World Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process

Chapter 9: Andrew K. Jorgenson “Global social change, natural resource consumption and environmental degradation”

Part 4: Globalization, Hegemony and Global Governance
Chapter 10: Giovanni Arrighi, " Spatial and Other ‘Fixes’ of Historical Capitalism "
Chapter 11: Peter Gowan,  “Contemporary intra-core relations and world-systems theory”

Part 5: Global Social Movements

Chapter 12: Valentine M. Moghadam, “Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women’s Mobilization”

Chapter 13: Frederick H.Buttel and Kenneth A. Gould, “Global Social Movements at the Crossroads”

Chapter 14: Jackie Smith and Dawn Weist, “National and global foundations of global civil society”

Part 6: Democracy and Democratization

Chapter 15: Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: on to global democracy”

Chapter 16: John Markoff, “Globalization and the future of Democracy”