Immanuel Wallerstein • Cores and Peripheries in the 21st Century 

Wolf Humanities Center's 2012-13 Forum on Peripheries
October 10, 2012
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities
Immanuel Wallerstein
Senior Research Scholar in Sociology
Yale University
Few authors have contributed more to our thinking about globalization than Immanuel Wallerstein, the great pioneer and proponent of world systems theory. His seminal works map the complex relations among countries and regions as a dynamic system of flows between a core and its peripheries. In this talk, Wallerstein addresses both the continuing relevance and the limitations of the world systems model. Are we still at the center? If so, where are the peripheries, and what is happening there?
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