At 10:13 PM 3/17/98 +0800, Anthony D'Costa wrote:
>What gibberish--the world-system with a hyphen is an obsession of those
>Wallersteininian folks. Since when has nation states vanished and therefore
>national competitiveness? It is premature to write off the state.
Regardless of whether you're a Wallerstein fan or not, all but the most
hyper-structuralist versions of world-systems theory leave ample room for
discussion of national policies and how these policies (arising from inter-
and intra-class alliances and conflicts) condition if not determine how
well core states make out in times of heightened inter-imperialist conflict.
At the same time relations _between_ core states (as in Japan and Germany
as workshops and the U.S. and U.K. as bankers and cash registers) condition
if not determine the class alliances and conflicts which make certain policies
more likely than others. The point is to sublate Jones' and Redmond's
analyses (notwithstanding their different interpretations of evidence).
John Gulick
Ph. D. Candidate
Sociology Graduate Program
University of California-Santa Cruz
(415) 643-8568
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