Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-System

Acknowledgements Introduction: The lessons of the 1980s Part I. Geopolitics, Post-America: 1. North Atlanticism in decline 2. The Reagan non-revolution, or the limited choices of the US 3. Japan and the future trajectory of the world-system: lessons from history 4. European unity and its implications for the interstate system 5. 1968, revolution in the world-system 6. Marx, Marxism-Leninism, and socialist experiences in the modern world-system 7. The Brandt report 8. Typology of crises in the world-system 9. The capitalist world-economy: middle-run prospects Part II. Geoculture, The Underside Of Geopolitics: 10. National and world identities 11. Culture as the ideological battleground of the modern world-system 12. The national and the universal: can there be such a thing as world culture 13. What can one mean by southern culture 14. The modern world-system as a civilization 15. The renewed concern with civilization(s)? Index.