Hegemonic Decline: Present and Past (Hardcover)

Introduction: Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn; On The Way To The Modern World-System; The final collapse of the Mediterranean-Egyptian-Near Eastern Bronze Age as a global systemic phenomenon Kasja Ekholm; Escaping a Closed Universe: World-System Crisis, Regional Dynamics and the Rise of Aegean Palatial Society; Johnny Persson; Parallel Decline of Early Modern Hegemonies: The Concept of early Modern Regional System and the Globality of the 18th Century: Norihisa Yamashita; Comparing Modern Hegemonic Declines; The 'double movement': the Belles Epoques of British and U.S. hegemony compared; Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver; A perspective on Ottoman Decline; Karen Barkey; On not learning from history. Systemic properties of hegemonic decline: structure and culture Jonathan Friedman; The U.S. Trajectory in the World-System; Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, John Rogers and Shoon Lio; Hegemonic Transitions, Globalization & Global Elite Formation; Thomas Reifer; Hegemonic Decline And Resistance; The problem of Dutch hegemonic decline and its Relationship to Globalization; Peter Taylor; Terrorism and Hegemonic Decline; Albert Bergesen and Omar Lizardo; Indigenous Peoples and Hegemonic Change: Opportunities for Resistance or Dangerous Times? Thomas D. Hall; Conclusion: Christopher Chase-Dunn and Jonathan Friedman