Introduction: The lessons of the 1980s -- Geopolitics: post-America -- North Atlanticism in decline -- The Reagan non-revolution, or the limited choices of the US -- Japan and the future trajectory of the world-system: lessons from history -- European unity and its implications for the interstate system -- 1968, revolution in the world-system -- Marx, Marxism-Leninism, and socialist experiences in the modern world-system -- The Brandt report -- Typology of crises in the world-system -- The capitalist world-economy: middle-run prospects -- Geoculture: the underside of geopolitics -- National and world identities and the interstate system (with Peter D. Phillips) -- Culture as the ideological battleground of the modern world-system -- The national and the universal: can there be such a thing as world culture? -- What can one mean by Southern culture? -- The modern world-system as a civilization -- The renewed concern with civilization(s?).
Summary
Written between 1982 and 1989, this collection contains the author's perspective on the events of this period. The book also charts the development of a challenge to the dominant "geoculture": the cultural framework within which the world-system operates.