New Book: Global Inequalities in World-Systems Perspective
Edited by Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, & Hans-Heinrich Nolte. From Routledge: During its 500-year history, t
‘Africa Rising’ in Retreat – New Signs of Resistance
by Patrick Bond A few years ago, at the very moment that Africa’s GDP ceased its rapid 2002–11 increase, a profound myth t
New Book: Global Perspectives on the Bretton Woods Conference & the Post-War World Order
From Palgrave. Edited by Giles Scott-Smith & J. Simon Rofe This book repositions the groundbreaking Bretton Woo
ISA World Congress of Sociology: Power, Violence and Justice – Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities
Toronto, Canada, July 15-21, 2018 Since the inception of the discipline, sociologists have been concerned with power
New Book: The Class Struggle in Latin America – Making History Today
By James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer. From Routledge: The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses
New Book: Understanding Global Poverty – Causes, Capabilities and Human Development
By Serena Cosgrove, Benjamin Curtis. From Routledge: Understanding Global Poverty introduces students to the study
July-August 2017 Issue of Monthly Review: On Revolution & Counterrevolution
In this special issue, the variety of views to which the magazine is open should be evident. On a topic as ambitious as “Re
Historical Materialism Sydney 2017 – Capital and the Revolt Against Capitalism
The sixth annual Historical Materialism Sydney conference on new Marxist research will be held at The University of Sy
New book: American Tianxia – Chinese Money, American Power and the End of History
By Salvatore Babones. From Policy Press: After a meteoric rise, China’s once inexorable growth has come to a scr
New Book: Playing with Fire – Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South
By Yilmaz Akyüz. From Oxford University Press: Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (ED
New Book: The World-System and Africa
By Immanuel Wallerstein. From Diasporic Africa Press: In The World-System and Africa, Immanuel Wallerstein examine
Global Capitalism: Reflections on a Brave New World
By William I. Robinson, We are in the throes of a transition to a qualitatively new stage of world capitalism. Its essenc
PEWS 2018 Annual Conference: Call for papers
The Theme of the 42nd Annual Conference will be “Business Cycles in the Modern World System: Past, Present and Future.”
New Book: Why Latin American Nations Fail – Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Esteban Pérez Caldentey & Matías Vernengo. From UC Press: Economic and social development is a major top
Dialogues on Development: On Dependency theory
Is it time for dependency theory to make a comeback? Its central idea is that developed (”core”) countries benefit from
New Book by Perry Anderson: The H-Word – The Peripeteia of Hegemony
From Verso: Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so li
New Book: Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems – Practical Utopias for an Age of Global Crisis and Austerity
From Routledge. Edited by Richard Westra, Robert Albritton, Seongjin Jeong In this age of overlapping and mutually re
Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy
By Jayati Ghosh, Twenty-first century imperialism has changed its form. In the 19th century and the first half of the 20