Category: Articles

Published by Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, September 2012.

The Geopolitics of Arab Turmoil

But they also insist that Syrian opposition forces may not organize violence from within Turkish borders. The Turks resist the talk of [...]

Published in Al Jazeera, November 14, 2011

The contradictions of the Arab Spring

The turmoil in Arab countries that is called the Arab Spring is conventionally said to have been sparked by the self-immolation of [...]

Published in The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds, pp 15-24, Brill, 2010

What Cold War in Asia? An Interpretive Essay

In this essay I would like to review this narrative and what it is supposed to tell us. It tells us that [...]

Published in Theory Talk, Theory Talk #13 on Monday, August 4, 2008

Immanuel Wallerstein on World-Systems, The Imminent End of Capitalism and Unifying Social Sciences

Theory Talks proudly presents a Talk with historical sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein. Wallerstein is duly known for his world-system theory, with which he [...]

Published in Monthly Review, June 2008.

Remembering Andre Gunder Frank While Thinking about the Future

Andre Gunder Frank’s very long itinerary as a critical social scientist was marked by one unbudgeable constant. He was always committed to [...]

Published in Harvard International Review • Spring 2007

Precipitate Decline: The Advent of Multipolarity

As recently as 2003, it was considered absurd to talk of the decline of the United States. Now, however, such a belief [...]

Published in New Left Review, NLR 40, July-August 2006, pp. 77-94

The Curve of American Power

Since the end of the Second World War, the geopolitics of the world-system has traversed three different phases. From 1945 till ca. [...]

5-9 September 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, UruguayPublished in 2005 by the United Nations Educational,Scientiﬁ c and Cultural Organisation1, rue Miollis75732 Paris Cedex 15FranceSHS-2005/WS/24 - cld // 21463

Social Science and Social Policy: From National Dilemmas to Global Opportunities

Social science has had an ambiguous relationship with social policy through-out its history. When the term and concept of social science ﬁrst [...]

Published in Journal of the Interdisciplinary Crossroads Vol. 1, No. 3 (December, 2004), pp. 505–521 ISSN 0972-9801

Cultures in Conflict? Who are We? Who are the Others?

This essay is an attempt to dissect the multiple universalisms and the multiple particularisms with which we are faced in trying to [...]

Keynote address at conference, "Development Challenges for the 21st Century," Cornell University, Oct. 1, 2004.

After Developmentalism and Globalization, What?

In 1900, in preparation for the Exposition Universelle in Paris, the French Ministry of Colonies asked Camille Guy, the head of its [...]

UNESCO 2004. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX42DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA.

The Dilemmas of Open Space: the Future of the WSF

The World Social Forum (WSF) seeks to bring together, in its own words, all those who oppose ‘‘neo-liberal globalisation’’ and ‘‘imperialism in [...]

Published in Monthly Review on May 30, 2003.

U.S. Weakness and the Struggle for Hegemony

I am going to start with two things with which I think nearly all MR readers will probably agree. One, imperialism is [...]