[First posted in AWOL 4 November 2009. Updated 9 November 2016]
Journal of World-Systems Research
ISSN 1076-156X
Journal of World-Systems Research
ISSN 1076-156X
The main editorial goal of the Journal of World-Systems Research is to develop and disseminate scholarly research on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems. We especially want to include works that proceed from several different theoretical stances and disciplines. These include, but are not limited to, civilizationists, evolutionary approaches, international political economy, comparative, historical and cultural analysis. We seek the work of political scientists, historians, sociologists, ethnographers, archaeologists, economists and geographers.
We especially encourage works that take theory seriously by confronting problems of conceptualization and making definitions of concepts explicit, by formulating hypotheses, constructing axiomatic theories and causal models. Theoretical research programs that combine theory construction with comparative research are badly needed to take the world-systems approach beyond the stage of a perspective.
We also want to encourage the application of comparative, quantititave and network-analytic methods to world-systems research, though we will certainly also publish pieces that do not use these methods. Any empirical study that is deemed relevant to world-systems analysis may be published even if it uses a very different conceptual framework.
And finally we also want to publish discussions of future trajectories and options for the modern world-system and considerations of what can be done to create a more humane, peaceful and just world society.
2016
Vol 22, No 2 (2016): Special Issue: Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World-System
Guest Edited by: Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, and Hans-Heinrich Nolte2015
Vol 21, No 2 (2015): Special Issue: World-System Biographies
Guest Editors, Kevan Harris & Brendan McQuadeVolume 21, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2015
Special Issue: States and Social Movements in the Modern World-System (Edited by Mangala Subramaniam)2014
Volume 20, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2014
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 20, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2014
Special Issue: The Political Economy of Commodity Chains (Edited by Jennifer Bair)2013
Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 2013
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 19, Number 1, Winter 2013
General Issue: World-Systems Research2012
Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2012
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 18, Issue 1, 2012
Special Issue: Land Rights in the World-System (Guest Edited by: Farshad Araghi & Marina Karides)2011
Volume 17, Issue 2, 2011
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 17, Issue 1, 2011
Special Issue: The World-Historical Imagination: Giovanni Arrighis The Long Twentieth Century in Prospect and Retrospect2010
Volume 16, Issue 2, 2010
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 16, Issue 1, 2010
Special Issue: From the Global to the Local: Social Forums, Movements, and Place2009
Volume 15, Issue 2, 2009
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 15, Issue 1, 2009
Special Issue: Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research2008
Volume 14, Issue 2, 2008
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 14, Issue 1, 2008
General Issue: World-Systems Research2007
Volume 13, Number 2, 2007
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 13, Issue 1, 2007
General Issue: World-Systems Research2006
Volume 12, Issue 2, 2006
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 12, Issue 1, 2006
General Issue: World-Systems Research2005
Volume 11, Issue 2, 2005
Special Issue: Globalizations from Above and Below: the Future of World SocietyVolume 11, Issue 1, 2005
General Issue: World-Systems Research2004
Volume 10, Issue 3, 2004
Issue with Special Section: Premodern Historical Systems: The Rise and Fall of States and EmpiresVolume 10, Issue 2, 2004
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 10, Issue 1, 2004
Special Issue: Global Social Movements Before & After 9/112003
Volume 9, Issue 2, 2003
Special Issue: Globalization & the EnvironmentVolume 9, Issue 1, 2003
General Issue: World-Systems Research2002
Volume 8, Issue 3, 2002
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 8, Issue 2, 2002
Special Issue: Global Inequality Part IIVolume 8, Issue 1, 2002
Special Issue: Global Inequality Part I2001
Volume 7, Issue 2, 2001
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 7, Issue 1, 2001
General Issue: World-Systems Research2000
Volume 6, Issue 3, 2000
Special Issue: Festschrift For Immanuel Wallerstein Part IIVolume 6, Issue 2, 2000
Special Issue: Festschrift for WallersteinVolume 6, Issue 1, 2000
General Issue: World-Systems Research1999
Volume 5, Issue 3, 1999
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 5, Issue 2, 1999
Special Issue: GlobalizationVolume 5, Issue 1, 1999
General Issue: World-Systems Research1998
Volume 4, Issue 2, 1998
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 4, Issue 1, 1998
Special Issue: Global Labor Movements1997
Volume 3, Issue 3, 1997
Special Issue: World-Systems and the EnvironmentVolume 3, Issue 2, 1997
General Issue: World-Systems ResearchVolume 3, Issue 1, 1997
General Issue: World-Systems Research1996
Volume 2, Issue 1, 1996
Thematic Section: Global Politics and the Future of the World-System1995
Volume 1, Issue 1, 1995
Thematic Section: Hegemonic Rivalry: Past and Future
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