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world system analysis

world system analysis A historical and sociological approach to political economy with a belief in the importance of interdependency and the global systemic structure and connected processes. There are two strains to world system analysis. First, the strain that focuses on aspects of international capitalism and is associated most strongly with Immanuel Wallerstein (see his Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World System , 1991). This uses a large-scale and long-term framework analysing structures, ...

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