A Critical Appraisal of Peter Gowans Contemporary Intra-Core Relations and World-Systems Theory: A Capitalist World-Empire or U.S.-East Asian Geo-Economic Integration?
This paper evaluates Peter Gowans musings on the topic of a U.S.-centered capitalist world-empire. Gowans heterodox concept of a capitalist world-empire is intellectually defensible. And his claim that U.S. hegemony is historically unique, because unlike previous dominant powers the U.S. has been ab...
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| Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2015-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of World-Systems Research |
| Online Access: | http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/293 |