WORLD-SYSTEMIC CRISIS AND CONTENDING POLITICAL SCENARIOS
29Th Conference of the Political Economy of the World System (PEWS)
Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA)
April 14-17, 2005
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The current global condition of widespread violence, enduring economic difficulties for both capital and labor, and a vacuum of hegemony that is expressed in the adventurist war initiatives of the U.S. imperial state are symptoms of crisis in the modern world-system. Though this crisis has produced disruption and suffering on a wide scale, it may also reveal the limits of the current global order and create opportunities for collective agency toward transforming it.