globalization

Argues that the shift from a hegemonic, single-state dominated global system to a multi-polar one is a regular feature in the pulsating global system developmental process and proposes scenarios for its likely future development, highlighting the core differences that mark digital technologies in contrast to previous technologies in the unfolding of this process.

In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of three main poles of digital network modes and governance: a US-based system based …

Provides a short — but long-term - oveview of the historical trajectories and processes that led to modern-day digitalization. The second part discusses some of the economic, social, and cultural implications of these processes for today.

One of the reoccurring phenomena of hegemonic transitions is the inability of the existing leader to establish a similar leadership …

Soziologischer und politischer Grundlagen-Beitrag zur Frage der globalen Dimension der gegenwärtigen Migrationsbewegungen.

Nomadic agents—broadly defined as state-less actors on the state-level of analysis in a world system context—have been …

This paper argues that the current shifts (or crisis) in world system developmental trajectories can best be understood if they are …

Develops a model of world system development as a complex adaptive social system. The model is then empirically tested focusing on the two core dimensions, the economic and political developmental processes.

Theoretical and empirical discussion of world system evolution in the digital age.

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