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Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
84
Citations
38361
World Ranking
283
National Ranking
131

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association

Overview

Immanuel Wallerstein was a scholar affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research contributed to various fields, predominantly within political science and sociology, with a focus on world systems theory and global transformations.

Their main topics of work included:

  • World Systems and Global Transformations
  • German legal, social, and political studies
  • Communism, Protests, Social Movements
  • European history and politics

Wallerstein frequently published in several academic venues. The most prominent among these were:

  • Revista ORG & DEMO
  • Relaciones Internacionales
  • Journal of World-Systems Research
  • Socio
  • Stanford University Press eBooks

Some of their recent papers included:

  • CAPITALISMO HISTÓRICO E CIVILIZAÇÃO CAPITALISTA (2020, Revista ORG & DEMO)
  • UTOPÍSTICA OU AS DECISÕES HISTÓRICAS DO SÉCULO VINTE E UM (2020, Revista ORG & DEMO)
  • Cadenas productivas en la economía-mundo antes de 1800 (2021, Relaciones Internacionales)
  • O DECLÍNIO DO PODER AMERICANO (2020, Revista ORG & DEMO)
  • Remarks on Challenging Capitalist Modernity (2021, Journal of World-Systems Research)

In addition to journal articles, Wallerstein authored book publications including:

  • Civilisations, Civilising Processes and Modernity - A Debate (2022, Springer International Publishing)

Wallerstein collaborated with several researchers throughout their career. Frequent co-authors were:

  • Terezinha Corrêa Lindino
  • Artur Bogner
  • Stephen Mennell
  • Norbert Elias
  • William H. McNeill

The scholar was recognized with awards such as the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association, which was bestowed in 2003.

Best Publications

  • The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century.

    Michael Hechter;Immanuel Wallerstein

  • The Capitalist World-Economy

    Harriet Friedmann;Immanuel Wallerstein

  • World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

    Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

  • The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis

    Immanuel Wallerstein

  • The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

    Immanuel Wallerstein

  • Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities

    Etienne Balibar;Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

  • The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750

    Rondo Cameron;Immanuel Wallerstein

  • The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

    Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

  • Open the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences

    John Modell;Immanuel Wallerstein

  • The Essential Wallerstein

    Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

  • Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms

    Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

  • Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System:

    Immanuel Wallerstein

  • The Modern World System. III. The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s

    Henry A. Gemery;Immanuel Wallerstein

  • Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-System

    Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

  • The Politics of the World-Economy: The States, the Movements and the Civilizations

    Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

  • European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power

    Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

  • The Modern World-System II

    Immanuel Wallerstein

  • Globalization or the Age of Transition? A Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World-System

    Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

  • Commodity Chains in the World-Economy Prior to 1800

    Terence K. Hopkins;Immanuel Wallerstein

  • La escritura de la historia

    Immanuel Wallerstein

  • The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750

    Immanuel Wallerstein

  • World-Systems Analysis

    Immanuel Wallerstein

  • Historical Capitalism@@@The Emergence of African Capitalism

    Julius E. Nyang'oro;Immanuel Wallerstein;John Iliffe

  • The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

    Rondo Cameron;Immanuel Wallerstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Étienne Balibar
Étienne Balibar Paris Nanterre University
Randall Collins
Randall Collins University of Pennsylvania
Craig Calhoun
Craig Calhoun Arizona State University
Giovanni Arrighi
Giovanni Arrighi Johns Hopkins University
Samir Amin
Samir Amin United Nations
Hans-Dieter Evers
Hans-Dieter Evers University of Bonn
John W. Meyer
John W. Meyer Stanford University
Michael Hechter
Michael Hechter Arizona State University
Victor Nee
Victor Nee Cornell University
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen Columbia University

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