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This book is a wide ranging and stimulating synthesis of the world-systems approach and its main findings. It covers parallel social processes in various regions which convincingly makes the argument that world-systems theory is able to integrate many diverse historical specializations.
BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism.
The fall of communism, the emergence of "the information age," and the expansion of economic globalism are the point of departure for this text. The author shows how these seemingly new developments fit with earlier patterns of global formation and change.
A comparison of the modern global world system with earlier regional inter-societal systems. The book proposes an evolutionary theory that explains how myriad small-scale systems became unified into a single global system over the last 10,000 years.
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