World-Systems Analysis: A Small Sample from a Large Universe

Abstract

An introduction to this special collection of articles offers a "quick & dirty" overview of Immanuel Wallerstein's (1974) world-systems theory in an attempt to demonstrate its continued relevance for contemporary scholarship. The disciplinary diversity of world-systems analysis is supported. Three types of world systems & stages in world-systems development are outlined. 200 References. K. Hyatt Stewart