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portada alternatives: the united states confronts the world
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2004
Language
English
Pages
182
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.5x17x1.7 cm
Weight
0.39 kg.
ISBN
1594510660
ISBN13
9781594510663

alternatives: the united states confronts the world

Immanuel Wallerstein (Author) · Routledge · Hardcover

alternatives: the united states confronts the world - Immanuel Wallerstein

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Synopsis "alternatives: the united states confronts the world"

Immanuel Wallerstein draws on a lifetime of study of long-term historical change to shed light in his newest book on the consequences of the recent, significant turn in U.S. foreign and economic policies. Alternatives shows how the U.S. has been in decline since the 1970s and how these longer trends dovetail with current Bush administration policies, which he describes as an attempt to reverse the decline in ways that are disastrous to the future of the country and the world. The book's middle section is a log of insightful commentaries written between 2001 and 2004 detailing how the Bush administration has broken the pattern of foreign policies set by six presidents from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. Wallerstein suggests that a threshold has been crossed that will make it difficult for future presidents to practice the kind of 'soft' multilateralism in foreign policy they have used in the past and maintain effective alliances. He also shows, surprisingly, why 'globalization' already is dead, especially in terms of the United States' ability to dominate economically in the manner that it has since WWII. He calls for a major revision of U.S. policies, and not an attempt merely to return to the pre-Bush foreign policy. In conclusion, Wallerstein's visionary book speaks to the challenges the U.S. must face if it is to play a meaningful and progressive role in the world-system.
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930-2019) fue un destacado sociólogo e historiador estadounidense, reconocido mundialmente como el principal teórico del «análisis de sistema-mundo». Su obra revolucionó la comprensión del desarrollo histórico al argumentar que el capitalismo no debe estudiarse a nivel nacional, sino como una economía-mundo única con una división global del trabajo.Su tesis central, desarrollada en su monumental obra El moderno sistema mundial (iniciada en 1974), postula que el capitalismo histórico se origina en el siglo XVI y crea una jerarquía de tres zonas: centro, semiperiferia y periferia. El centro (países desarrollados) acumula riqueza explotando a la periferia (países en desarrollo), mientras que la semiperiferia actúa como intermediario. Wallerstein rechazó los enfoques tradicionales de modernización, proponiendo que la posición de cada región está determinada por el poder económico dentro de esta estructura.Además, introdujo conceptos clave como los «cuasi-monopolios» y las «ondas de Kondratiev» para explicar los ciclos de auge y crisis del capitalismo. Fue un crítico feroz de las estructuras sociales actuales y un defensor de la necesidad de superar el capitalismo por un sistema más igualitario. Wallerstein dirigió el Centro Fernand Braudel y presidió la Asociación de Estudios Africanos, consolidándose como una figura clave en la sociología histórica y la economía política mundial.
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