Larry Liu, Leon Wilson

Border Disputes in the Global Periphery amid Declining U.S. Hegemonic Influence

Politics

Contrary to popular expectations about a post-oil future, oil remains an important commodity in the global political economy and the world-system, in...

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Efe Can Gürcan

Rethinking “World Wars” Through a World-Systems Lens

Social Science

What are the key characteristics of the current instabilities of the capitalist world-system, and how does it compare to previous periods that led to...

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Boaventura de Sousa Santos

AI and the Epistemologies of the South

Philosophy

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Crelis Rammelt, Raimon C. Ylla-Catala

Ecological Unequal Exchange

Economics

The Marxist theory of unequal exchange challenges the idea that trade never results in outright losses. As a biophysical process, ecological unequal e...

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Sam Chian

Wallerstein after ’68

Sociology

This article examines the intellectual foundations of Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis, focusing on the formative period of the late 1960...

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Ryan Gunderson, William Charles, Claiton Fyock

Global Capital and Amphibian Extinctions

Environment

Sri Lanka has the highest number of recorded amphibian extinctions and most of the island’s remaining amphibian species are threatened with extinction...

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Roberto J. Ortiz

Collapse and Transformation? Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Energy Crisis of “Showcase” Peripheries in World-Ecological Perspective

Development

The rise of oil-fueled accumulation in the global North produced an energy regime that by the mid-twentieth century was being extended to the semiperi...

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This article presents a compelling and timely analysis of the energy crises in Cuba and Puerto Rico, two Caribbean "showcase" peripheries. Employing a...

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Andrey Korotayev

Sixth Century Global Climatic Disaster, the Origins of Islam, and its World-System Consequences

Social Science

We suggest viewing the origins of Islam against the background of the sixth century global climatic disaster and the Arabian socio-ecological crisis t...

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Paola Huwe de Paoli

The Popular Anthropocene in Global Climate (Dis)Governance

Social Science

The climate emergency is posing an existential threat to millions of species on Earth—including humans. Despite advances in climate science and the co...

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Giacomo Otavio Tixiliski

Shamanic Thinking in the Capitalocene

Social Science

The paper interweaves the concepts of two contemporary thinkers in order to describe the ongoing socio-environmental crisis. Based on the books Capita...

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