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Hope Library Guides

POL 201 - Political Geography

Topic Overviews

World-System, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

World Systems Model—Global Scale, Human Geography: People and the Environment

World-System, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Hegemony, International Encyclopedia of Political Science

Hegemony, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Kondratieff Cycles, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Kondratieff Cycles, Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences

Books/ebooks

Some Example Articles

el-Ojeili, C. (2015). Reflections on Wallerstein: The Modern World-System, Four Decades on. Critical Sociology., 41(4–5), 679–700. (LINK)

Chase-Dunn, C., & Hall, T. D. (1993). Comparing World-Systems: Concepts and Working Hypotheses. Social Forces., 71(4), 851–886. (LINK)

Kwon, R. (2011). Hegemonies in the world-system: An empirical assessment of hegemonic sequences from the 16th to 20th century. Sociological Perspectives, 54(4), 593-617. (LINK)

Wallerstein, I. (2011). Structural crisis in the world-system where do we go from here?. Monthly Review, 62, 31-39. (LINK)

Kondratieff, N. D., & Stolper, W. F. (1935). The Long Waves in Economic Life. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 17(6), 105–115. (LINK)

Kondratieff Waves in the World System Perspective - book chapter (LINK)

Garvy, G. (1943). Kondratieff’s Theory of Long Cycles. The Review of Economics and Statistics., 25(4), 203-220. (LINK)

Journal of World-Systems Research