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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Christopher Chase-Dunn is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant emphasis on world systems and global transformations. They have contributed extensively to topics such as culture, economy, and development studies, economic and technological innovation, elite sociology and global capitalism, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, religion and society interactions, and economic development and digital transformation.

Chase-Dunn's main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences

The subfields in which they have published are:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Demography
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Significant topics of their research work comprise:

  • World Systems and Global Transformations
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Economic Development and Digital Transformation

Christopher Chase-Dunn has authored several papers, including:

  • Waves of Structural Deglobalization: A World-Systems Perspective, 2023, Social Sciences
  • Remembering Immanuel Wallerstein, 2020, Journal of World-Systems Research
  • For a Global Social Science, 2020, Global Perspectives
  • Collective Behavior and Social Movements in Stateless Societies, 2022, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930-2019), 2020, Social Evolution & History

They have published books with notable academic presses, including:

  • Global Struggles and Social Change, 2020, Johns Hopkins University Press
  • BRICS and the New American Imperialism: Global rivalry and resistance, 2020, OAPEN

Frequent co-authors of Christopher Chase-Dunn include:

  • Marilyn Grell-Brisk
  • Hiroko Inoue
  • Alexis Álvarez
  • Yuhao Liao
  • Sándor Gyula Nagy

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • Journal of World-Systems Research
  • Social Sciences
  • Global Perspectives
  • The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
  • Social Evolution & History

Christopher Chase-Dunn was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy

    Christopher K. Chase-Dunn

  • Transnational corporations and underdevelopment

    Volker Bornschier;Christopher K. Chase-Dunn

  • The effects of international economic dependence on development and inequality: A cross-national study.

    Christopher Chase-Dunn

  • World-Systems Analysis

    Christopher Chase-Dunn;Peter Grimes

  • Cross-National Evidence of the Effects of Foreign Investment and Aid on Economic Growth and Inequality: A Survey of Findings and a Reanalysis

    Volker Bornschier;Christopher Chase-Dunn;Richard Rubinson

  • Rise and Demise, Comparing World Systems.

    William G. Martin;Christopher Chase-Dunn;Thomas D. Hall

  • Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony

    William I. Robinson

  • Trade globalization since 1795 : Waves of integration in the world-system

    C. Chase-Dunn;Y. Kawann;B. D. Brewer

  • Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]

    Andre Gunder Frank;Guillermo Algaze;J. A. Barceló;Christopher Chase-Dunn

  • Global Democracy and the World Social Forums

    Jackie G. Smith

  • The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

    E. N. Anderson;Christopher Chase-Dunn

  • Interstate System and Capitalist World-EconomyOne Logic or Two?

    Christopher Chase-Dunn

  • Toward a Structural Perspective on the World-System

    Christopher Chase-Dunn;Richard Rubinson

  • The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy

    Terry Boswell;Christopher K. Chase-Dunn

  • Rise and Fall: East-West Synchronicity and Indic Exceptionalism Reexamined

    Christopher K. Chase-Dunn;Thomas D. Hall;E. Susan Manning

  • GLOBALIZATION: A WORLD-SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

    Christopher Chase-Dunn

  • Core/periphery Relations In Precapitalist Worlds

    Terry Boswell;Christopher Chase-Dunn;Thomas D. Hall

  • Contending Approaches to World System Analysis

    Andre Gunder Frank;Christopher Chase-Dunn;William R. Thompson;Albert Bergesen

  • The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism

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  • The world-systems perspective and archaeology: Forward into the past

    Thomas D. Hall;Christopher Chase-Dunn

  • Comparing World-Systems: Concepts and Working Hypotheses

    Christopher Chase-Dunn;Thomas D. Hall

  • City Systems and World Systems: Four Millennia of City Growth and Decline

    Christopher Chase-Dunn;E. Susan Manning

  • The Historical Evolution of World-Systems

    Christopher Chase-Dunn;Thomas D. Hall

  • Convergence and Divergence in Development

    John W. Meyer;John Boli-Bennett;Christopher Chase-Dunn

  • World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology: Continuing the Dialogue

    Thomas D. Hall;P. Nick Kardulias;Christopher Chase-Dunn

  • Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

    Salvatore J. Babones;Christopher K. Chase-Dunn

  • Globalization on the ground : postbellum Guatemalan democracy and development

    Christopher K. Chase-Dunn;Susanne Jonas;Nelson Amaro

Frequent Co-Authors

Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith University of Pittsburgh
Andrew K. Jorgenson
Andrew K. Jorgenson Boston College
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
John W. Meyer
John W. Meyer Stanford University
Giovanni Arrighi
Giovanni Arrighi Johns Hopkins University
William R. Thompson
William R. Thompson Indiana University
Andrew J. Cherlin
Andrew J. Cherlin Johns Hopkins University
Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond University of Johannesburg
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Juan Barceló
Juan Barceló Autonomous University of Barcelona

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