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Center - Edge - Half Edge: Wallerstein 's Explanation Of Contemporary Capitalist Architecture

Posted on:2017-04-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F F ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206330488979662Subject:Marxist theory
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The modern world system theory of Immanuel Wallerstein analyzed the origin,development,internal conflict and the hegemony’s rise and fall of core countries in different periods of capitalist world economic community in accordance with the time clue.This paper bases on economy, politics and culture three angles to explain the contemporary capitalist system structure what is mainly dealed with by Wallerstein.The capitalist world economy originated in early modern Europe.In the 14 th century before modern times,the overall economic depression render different areas of Europe taking different economic systems and labor control modes,and different modes promote different regions play different roles in the whole European economy. Gradually, the European economy presents the economic structure of the core, the periphery, and the semiperiphery.However this ecomomic structure is not Static.With the development of the differences of different countries,the periphery and the semiperiphery zones edged in the core zones while the original core and the periphery zones might be marginalized.So it is a dynamic balance economic structure of integration.European political structure is appeared simultaneously with the European economic structure.To some extent,political is developing in parallel with economic,and economic core zones always be political core zones.Accordingly,the periphery and the semiperiphery economic zones are also the the periphery and the semiperiphery political zones.But Wallerstein is especially concerned about the conflict generated by battling for supremacy between core zones,and it is another clue except for time clue in “The Modern World-System”,that is the rise and fall of hegemony in the European history.From Spain to Holland,than to the The Hundred Years’ War,the British obtain the victory finally,and the French revolution what exert an great influence and culture shock on later generations happened during the war.In the phase of capitalism development translates from free competition to monopoly,Europe and even the whole world were entering to the mode of turbulence normalization.Except the trade war in economy and the military war in politic,different ideology were also leading the movements of different forces.What is all the more remarkable is frequent changes of the country’s political system from the conflict of liberalism and conservatism after the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars and antisystemic movements from the theoretical guidance of Radicalism.Finally liberalism got hundreds of years of victory in the development of history while antisystemic movements also got the complete success.After the first world war in the 20 th century,the capitalist world economy was opened a gap.It Laid a start for the seesaw battle of half a century between the socialist camp and capitalism camps.After two world wars,Europe was demoted down from the core zones,and America and Soviet Union replaced it to be the cores of the economy and politic in the world.However after the Second World War,world was no longer a single capitalist world economy,ao there was a diversified world after the cold war.World-systems theory provides a theoretical horizon for the modern development of developing countries what is based on the current situation of the opportunities and challenges exist side by side under the contemporary background of globalization.
Keywords/Search Tags:world system, the core, the periphery, the semiperiphery, the capitalist world economy
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