Open Access Journal: Journal of World-Systems Research

[First posted in AWOL 4 November 2009. Updated 13 February 2022]]

Journal of World-Systems Research
ISSN 1076-156X

The main editorial goal of the Journal of World-Systems Research is to develop and disseminate scholarly research on topics that are relevant to the analysis of world-systems. We especially want to include works that proceed from several different theoretical stances and disciplines. These include, but are not limited to, civilizationists, evolutionary approaches, international political economy, comparative, historical and cultural analysis. We seek the work of political scientists, historians, sociologists, ethnographers, archaeologists, economists and geographers.

We especially encourage works that take theory seriously by confronting problems of conceptualization and making definitions of concepts explicit, by formulating hypotheses, constructing axiomatic theories and causal models. Theoretical research programs that combine theory construction with comparative research are badly needed to take the world-systems approach beyond the stage of a perspective.

We also want to encourage the application of comparative, quantititave and network-analytic methods to world-systems research, though we will certainly also publish pieces that do not use these methods. Any empirical study that is deemed relevant to world-systems analysis may be published even if it uses a very different conceptual framework.

And finally we also want to publish discussions of future trajectories and options for the modern world-system and considerations of what can be done to create a more humane, peaceful and just world society.

• Special Issue: Anti-State and Anti-Systemic – Exilic Spaces and Societies in Movement in the World-System

  Vol. 28 No. 2 (2022)

  Special Issue guest editors: Spencer Louis Potiker and Yousuf Al-Bulushi

• Winter/Spring 2022

  Vol. 28 No. 1 (2022)

• Summer/Autumn 2021

  Vol. 27 No. 2 (2021)

• Special Issue: Capitalist World-Economy in Crisis: Policing, Pacification, and Legitimacy

  Vol. 27 No. 1 (2021)

• Special Issue: World-Systems Analysis in the Anthropocene

  Vol. 26 No. 2 (2020)

  Special Issue guest editors: Michael Murphy and Leslie Sklair

• Winter/Spring 2020

  Vol. 26 No. 1 (2020)

• Summer/Fall 2019

  Vol. 25 No. 2 (2019)

• Volume 25, Issue 1: Winter/Spring 2019

  Vol. 25 No. 1 (2019)

• Volume 24, Issue 2: Summer/Fall 2018

  Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018)

• Volume 24, Issue 1: Winter/Spring 2018

  Vol. 24 No. 1 (2018)

• Special Issue: Unequal Ecological Exchange

  Vol. 23 No. 2 (2017)

  Guest edited by: R. Scott Frey, Paul K. Gellert, and Harry F. Dahms

  Contributions of Christopher Chase-Dunn Guest edited by: Jeffrey Kentor and Andrew Jorgenson

• Winter/Spring

  Vol. 23 No. 1 (2017)

• Special Issue: Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World-System

  Vol. 22 No. 2 (2016)

  Guest Edited by: Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, and Hans-Heinrich Nolte

• Special Issue: Ireland in the World-System

  Vol. 22 No. 1 (2016)

• Special Issue: World-System Biographies

  Vol. 21 No. 2 (2015)

  Guest Editors, Kevan Harris & Brendan McQuade

• Volume 21, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2015

  Special Issue: States and Social Movements in the Modern World-System (Edited by Mangala Subramaniam)

• Volume 20, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2014

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 20, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2014

  Special Issue: The Political Economy of Commodity Chains (Edited by Jennifer Bair)

• Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 2013

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 2013

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 18, Number 2, Summer 2012

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 18, Issue 1, 2012

  Special Issue: Land Rights in the World-System (Guest Edited by: Farshad Araghi & Marina Karides)

• Volume 17, Issue 2, 2011

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 17, Issue 1, 2011

  Special Issue: The World-Historical Imagination: Giovanni Arrighis The Long Twentieth Century in Prospect and Retrospect

• Volume 16, Issue 2, 2010

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 16, Issue 1, 2010

  Special Issue: From the Global to the Local: Social Forums, Movements, and Place

• Volume 15, Issue 2, 2009

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 15, Issue 1, 2009

  Special Issue: Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research

• Volume 14, Issue 2, 2008

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 14, Issue 1, 2008

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 13, Number 2, 2007

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 13, Issue 1, 2007

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 12, Issue 2, 2006

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 12, Issue 1, 2006

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 11, Issue 2, 2005

  Special Issue: Globalizations from Above and Below: the Future of World Society

• Volume 11, Issue 1, 2005

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 10, Issue 3, 2004

  Issue with Special Section: Premodern Historical Systems: The Rise and Fall of States and Empires

• Volume 10, Issue 2, 2004

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 10, Issue 1, 2004

  Special Issue: Global Social Movements Before & After 9/11

• Volume 9, Issue 2, 2003

  Special Issue: Globalization & the Environment

• Volume 9, Issue 1, 2003

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 8, Issue 3, 2002

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 8, Issue 2, 2002

  Special Issue: Global Inequality Part II

• Volume 8, Issue 1, 2002

  Special Issue: Global Inequality Part I

• Volume 7, Issue 2, 2001

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 7, Issue 1, 2001

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 6, Issue 3, 2000

  Special Issue: Festschrift For Immanuel Wallerstein Part II

• Volume 6, Issue 2, 2000

  Special Issue: Festschrift for Wallerstein

• Volume 6, Issue 1, 2000

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 5, Issue 3, 1999

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 5, Issue 2, 1999

  Special Issue: Globalization

• Volume 5, Issue 1, 1999

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 4, Issue 2, 1998

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 4, Issue 1, 1998

  Special Issue: Global Labor Movements

• Volume 3, Issue 3, 1997

  Special Issue: World-Systems and the Environment

• Volume 3, Issue 2, 1997

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 3, Issue 1, 1997

  General Issue: World-Systems Research

• Volume 2, Issue 1, 1996

  Thematic Section: Global Politics and the Future of the World-System

• Volume 1, Issue 1, 1995

  Thematic Section: Hegemonic Rivalry: Past and Future

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