Utopistics
Or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century
The founder of world-systems analysis explores what we can expect in the twenty-first century
"Lucid, informed, and insightful." —The New York Times
The twentieth century has witnessed both the triumphs and failures of the dreams that have informed the modern world. In Utopistics, Immanuel Wallerstein argues that the global order that nourished those dreams is on the brink of disintegration. Pointing to the globalization of commerce, the changing nature of work and the family, the failures of traditional liberal ideology, and the danger of profound environmental crises, the founder of world-systems analysis argues that the nation-state system no longer works. The next twenty-five to fifty years will see the final breakdown of that system, and a time of great conflicts and disorder. It will also be a period in which individual and collective action will have a greater impact on the future than has been possible for 500 years. Utopistics distills Wallerstein's hugely influential work on the modern world-system in an accessible way. This fascinating and provocative look into our collective political destiny poses urgent questions for anyone concerned with social change in the next millennium.
Books by Immanuel Wallerstein
The Cold War and the University
Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years
Noam Chomsky, Ira Katznelson, R.C. Lewontin, David Montgomery, Laura Nader, Richard Ohmann, Ray Siever, Immanuel Wallerstein, Howard Zinn
The Essential Wallerstein
European Universalism
The Rhetoric of Power
After Liberalism
The Color of Politics
Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics
Michael Goldfield
Not Only for Myself
Identity, Politics, and the Law
Martha Minow
The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Melanie Wachtell Stinnett
Immanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scientist in the department of sociology at Yale University and professor emeritus of sociology at Binghampton University (SUNY). His many books include The Modern World-System and ...