Chaos and Governance in the Modern World SystemAdopting an historical approach, explores four controversies facing global analyses today: the geography of world power, the power of states versus the power of capital, the social power of subordinate groups, and the changing balance of civilizational power. |
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American Asia balance of power became Braudel Britain British hegemony British to U.S. business enterprise capitalist central challenge chapter China Chinese civilizations Cold War colonial commercial competition created dominant Dutch hegemony Dutch Republic Dutch to British East Asian economic elite emergence empire English entrepôt escalation Europe European European-centered financial expansion forces foreign France French German Giovanni Arrighi global hege hegemonic crises Hobsbawm imperial industrial industrialization of war integration Japan Japanese joint-stock chartered companies labor major markets merchants military modern movement Napoleonic Wars nineteenth century non-Western opium organization Ottoman Empire overseas Overseas Chinese political profit Qing rebellion region Revolution Russia second Opium War Second World War Sinocentric slave social conflict structures supremacy system of business systemwide tendency territorial tion transformation transition from British transition from Dutch Treaty U.S. corporate U.S. government U.S. hegemony United Provinces West Western workers world order world system