The Institute for Research on World-Systems

The Institute for Research on World-Systems (IROWS) organizes collaborative research among social and physical scientists on long-term, large-scale social change and its ecological, geographical and epidemiological causes and effects.

Located at the University of California at Riverside, IROWS pursues comparative research on the rise and fall of civilizations, long-term processes of globalization and climate change. 

IROWS formerly published the Journal of World-Systems Research, a scholarly, refereed electronic journal that has now become the official journal of the Political Economy of World-Systems section of the American Sociological Association. JWSR is co-edited by Andrew Jorgenson and Ed Kick at North Carolina State University.

IROWS research foci include:

• Globalization, 
• Urbanization, Settlement Systems and Suburbanization, 
• Human Interaction Networks, 
• The Rise and Fall of Cities, States, and Empires, 
• Biotechnology as a “new lead industry” in the global political economy
• Global State Formation

IROWS facilitates interdisciplinary collaborative research among Sociologists, Anthropologists, Geographers, Political Scientists, Historians, Environmental Scientists and Economists. 
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To contact us: 
Institute for Research on World-Systems
College Building South
University of California-Riverside 
Riverside, CA. 92521 
Phone: 951-827-2062 
Email: chriscd@ucr.ed
Http://www.irows.ucr.edu