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Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Analysis

Anchana A. R.Research Scholar

School of Social SciencesMG University, Kottayam

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World-System Analysis

World-system analysis, formulated by Immanuel Wallerstein and Andre Gunder Frank.

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Immanuel Wallerstein

• The best known version of world-systems approach has been developed by Immanuel Wallerstein in the 1970s.

• American sociologist, historical social scientist,&World system analyst,

• Born in New York in 1930.• Samir Amin,Andre Gunder Frank, Chase-

Dum,Thomas D Hall etc. are others in this area.

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World system Analysis(World system theory, World system perspective )

• World-systems analysis is a knowledge movement elaborated since the

1970's .It insists on-

• World systems (and not nation-states) are the basic unit of social analysis.

• Neither nomothetic nor idiographic epistemologies permit useful

analyses of social reality .

• The existing disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences no longer

make any intellectual sense.

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• Refers to the inter-regional and transnational division of lab or, which divides the

world into core countries, semi-periphery countries and periphery countries

• It argues that there have been only two varieties of world-systems: world-

economies and world empires.

• world-empire (examples, the Roman Empire, Han China) -large bureaucratic

structures with a single political center and an axial division of labor, but multiple

cultures.

• world-economy - large axial division of labor with multiple political centers and

multiple cultures.

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World system theory

• Wallerstein rejects the notion of a "Third World“

• claims there is only one world connected by a

complex network of economic exchange

relationships — i.e., a "world-economy" or "world-

system" .

• There the "dichotomy of capital and labor " and the

endless "accumulation of capital" by competing

agents account for frictions. This approach is known

as the World Systems Theory.

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Characteristics

• World-systems analysis argues that capitalism has always

integrated a variety of labor forms within a functioning division of

labor.

• The world-economy manifests a tripartite division of labor with

core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral zones.

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Building Blocks

• The Annales school, Marx, and dependence theory. • World-system theory owes to the Annales school, whose

major representative is Ferndinand Braudel

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• Dependency and world system theory propose that the

poverty and backwardness of poor countries are caused by

their peripheral position in the international division of labor.

• With a tripartite pattern in division of labour, world system

analysis criticise dependency theory with its bimodal

system(core&periphery).

• Dependency theory focuses on understanding the “periphery” by looking at core-periphery relations.

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Core nations • Refers as made up of “free countries” dominating others without being

dominated.• Main reason for the position of the developed countries is economic

power.• The most economically diversified.• Wealthy and powerful.• Have strong central governments, strong bureaucracies and powerful

militaries.• Highly industrialized, produce manufactured goods rather than raw

materials for export.• Eg.USA, Holland ,Japan,France,Brazil,China

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Interpretation of World History

• Using their superior military control European economy was dominated before 16th century.

• According to Wallerstein,there have been three periods in which a core nation has dominates in the modern W-S

• Each lasting less than 100 years.

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• Initial centuries of rise of Europe ,N-W Europe constitute core, Mediterranean Europe semi-periphery, Eastern Europe and parts of Asia periphery.• 1450- Spain and Portugal take early lead.• 17th century Netherlands take clear dominance.• 19th century Britain replaces Netherlands hegemony.• As a result of British dominance W-S became more stable

in 19 th century.• After World War US began to take place of British.• After II nd World War US accounted for over half of World’s

industrial production.• By end of 20th century the core was composed of US,

Europe and Japan.

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• A core nation is dominant over all the others with three forms of economic dominance

1.Productivity dominance2.Productivity dominance may lead to trade dominance.3.Trade dominance may lead to financial dominance.

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Semi-periphery nations Semi periphery nations are those that are midway between

the core and periphery.Dominated by dominated countries (usually by core

countries ),at the same time dominating others (usually peripheries)

They tend to be countries moving towards industrialization and a more diversified economy.

Those regions often have relatively developed and diversified economy, but are not dominant in international trade.

Eg.India, Pakistan, Sweden, Poland,South Africa

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Periphery nations

• Least economically diversified.• Have relatively weak governments.• Tend to be least industrialized.• Have small bourgeois and large peasant classes.• Tend to have a high percentage of their people that are

poor and uneducated.• Tend to be extensively influenced and by core nations.• Eg. Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Cuba,Israel

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World-System Theory (WST)What should peripheral nations do?• According to WST scholars?• Peripheral countries must avoid exploitive economic relations

with the corel Beware of trade and foreign investment, which can lead to exploitation

and foreign control• Try to nurture domestic industries.

l Try to develop advanced industries locallyl Concept: “Import substitution” – developing local industries to avoid

importing products.

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Role Equivalence Model of World System

SOURCE: Van Rossem (1996: Fig 2 & Table 2)

CoreUSA, France, Germany, UK,

Japan, Soviet Union, Canada, Brazil, China,

Saudi Arabia

SemiperipherySweden, India, Egypt, Austria, Czech, Iran, Pakistan, Mexico, Iraq, Poland, Turkey, Greece,

Indonesia

Periphery 2Singapore, Jamaica, Yemen, Laos,

Uganda, Cyprus, Nepal, Mali, Iceland, Rwanda, Benin, Guyana,

Fiji, Belize, Taiwan, Chad, Grenada, Brunei

Periphery 1Venezuela, Denmark, Kenya, Morocco, Korea, Peru, Cuba,

Hungary, Sudan, Jordan, Israel, Ghana, Zambia, Panama, Somalia,

Haiti, Congo

Imports Exports Diplomatic ties Arms trade Troops

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Criticisms

• Positivist, Orthodox Marxists, state autonomists others who criticises

• Positivist argues state should be the central unit of analysis.• Orthodox Marxist –W-S approach deviating too far from

Orthodox Marxist principles, like not giving enough weight to social classes.

• State autonomists-For blurring the boundaries between state and businesses.

• The culturalists argue that world-systems theory puts too much importance on the economy and not enough on the culture.

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New Developments

• Includes studies on the cyclical processes, the consequences of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the roles of gender and the culture, studies of slavery and incorporation of new regions into the world-system.

• Greatest source of renewal in world-systems analysis, since 2000 has been the synthesis of world-system and environmental approaches.

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Current Research

Wallerstein's theories are widely recognized throughout the world. In the United States, one of the hubs of world-systems research is at the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations, at Binghamton University.

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