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Immanuel Wallerstein

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Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, is the author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World (New Press).

Professor Wallerstein received his PhD from Columbia University in 1959. He is the former President of the International Sociological Association (1994-1998), and chair of the international Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences (1993-1995).

He writes in three domains of world-systems analysis: the historical development of the modern world-system; the contemporary crisis of the capitalist world-economy; the structures of knowledge. Books in each of these domains include respectively The Modern World-System (3 vols.); Utopistics, or Historical Choices for the Twenty-first Century; and Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms.

      Recent Articles


Date Article
2/1/2010The United States Misreads Brazil's World Policy
1/15/2010How to Think About China
1/1/2010U.S. Concerns: First Germany, Now Japan?
12/15/2009Obama as a Black President
12/1/2009Western Europe and Russia -- Coming Together
11/15/2009Obama, Bush, and Latin American Coups
11/1/2009Afghanistan: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose
10/15/2009The Olympics and Geopolitics
10/1/2009Iran Again: Is Everyone Bluffing?
9/15/2009U.S. Internal Politics and its Military Interventions
9/1/2009The Firestorm Ahead
8/15/2009Nuclear Proliferation -- What If...?
8/1/2009The World Left and the Iranian Elections
7/15/2009The Right Strikes Back!
7/1/2009Obama's Very Limited Options
6/15/2009What Kind of Two-State Solution?
6/1/2009Obama versus Cheney, Center versus Right
5/15/2009The Sinking Dollar
5/1/2009Cuba and the United States: The Slow Thaw
4/15/2009What Was the Point of the G-20 Meeting?
4/1/2009Af-Pak: Obama's War
3/15/2009Civil War in the United States?
3/1/2009Guadeloupe: Obscure Key to World Crisis
2/15/2009The Politics of Economic Disaster
2/1/2009Remaking America: The Ambiguities of Obama
1/15/2009Chronicle of a Suicide Foretold: The Case of Israel
1/1/2009Cuba is Back!
12/15/2008Pakistan: Obama's Nightmare
12/1/2008Iraq: The Thirteenth Hour
11/15/2008Obama's Victory -- Fear and Hope
11/1/2008Dramatic Consequences in Iraq?
10/15/2008The Depression: A Long-Term View
10/1/2008Bolivia: Defeat of the Right
9/15/2008The New World Geopolitical Order: End of Act I
9/1/2008Can NATO Survive Georgia?
8/15/2008Geopolitical Chess: Background to a Mini-war in the Caucasus
8/1/2008Afghanistan: Shoals Ahead for President Obama
7/15/2008Has the 'Surge' in Iraq Worked?
7/1/2008When the Tough Decide to Become Diplomatic
6/15/2008Obama's Victory? How Big? How Far?
6/1/2008How the War Ends in Iraq
5/15/2008How Far Left Has Latin America Moved?
5/1/2008Race, Gender, and Class in American Politics: Anything New?
4/15/2008France Back in NATO? Is This for Real?
4/1/2008Wall Street is Really Predicated on Greed
3/15/2008When Henry Kissinger Opines
3/1/2008What Can He Change?
2/15/2008Walking Away: The Least Bad Option
2/1/20082008: The Demise of Neoliberal Globalization
1/15/2008Kenya: Stable Democracy or Meltdown?
1/1/2008What Have the Zapatistas Accomplished?
12/15/2007The NIE Report on Iran: A Major Reversal?
12/1/2007False Choices, or Media Traps
11/15/2007What Does Putin Want?
11/1/2007Last Call for a Two-State Solution?
10/15/2007Japan, the United States, and the World-Economy
10/1/2007Iraq and the U.S. Elections
9/15/2007Attacking Iran on the Agenda?
9/1/2007The Vietnam Analogy
8/15/2007R.I.P.: Nonproliferation
8/1/2007Can Musharraf Survive?
7/15/2007The Putin Charisma
7/1/2007Winners and Losers in Palestine
6/15/2007A Missile Defense Shield: Crazy Idea or Rational Objective?
6/1/2007Ending the Iraq War: Two Competing Plans
5/15/2007France: The End of Gaullism?
5/1/2007Africa, 2057
4/15/2007Europe, 2057
4/1/2007Is Afghanistan Next?
3/15/2007Climate Disasters: Three Obstacles to Doing Anything
3/1/2007Charade or First Step? The United States-North Korea Agreement
2/15/2007Bush's Headlong Rush Into Iran?
2/1/2007The World Social Forum: From Defense to Offense
1/15/2007Ethiopia Rides The Tiger
1/1/2007What New Strategy in Iraq?
12/1/2006Lessons? Vietnam, Indonesia, and Iraq
11/15/2006Mother of All Defeats
11/1/2006The North Korean Imbroglio: Who Gains?
10/15/2006What Difference Will a Democratic Congress Make?
10/1/2006Three Papal Strategies to Revive Christianity
9/15/2006The Loose Cannon in the Middle East
9/1/2006The Tiger at Bay: Scary Times Ahead
8/15/2006Five Reasons Why Great Military Powers Lose Wars
8/1/2006What Can Israel Achieve?
7/15/2006Whom Has North Korea Provoked?
7/1/2006The Worries of the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
6/15/2006How Has Latin America Moved Left?
6/1/2006Whose Century is the 21st Century?
5/15/2006Walls and the World
5/1/2006The United States and China: Wary Rivals
4/1/2006Immigration: Backlash to the Backlash?
3/15/2006The United States and India: New Best Friends?
3/1/2006Major Storm Clouds Gathering
2/15/2006Iran and the Bomb
2/1/2006Two Cheers for Evo?
1/15/2006Sharon's Illusions
1/1/20062005: The Collapse of Bush's Authority (long version)
1/1/20062005: The Collapse of Bush's Authority
12/15/2005Losing One's Nerve in Iraq
12/1/2005The French Riots: Rebellion of the Underclass
11/15/2005The United States versus Latin America
11/1/2005Mr. Bush's Nightmare
10/15/2005The Mudslide
9/30/2005"Exit Strategy"
9/16/2005Katrina: The Politics of Incompetence and Decline