Introduction Part 1: Origins 1. Before the Long 16th Century 1. Market Cooperation and the Evolution of the Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican World-System 2. Assessing the Debate between Abu-Lughod and Wallerstein over the Thirteenth-Century Origins of the Modern World-System 3. Afroeurasian World-System: Genesis, Transformations, Characteristics 4. Agricultural Origins and Early Development 5. Qubilai and the Indian Ocean: A New Era? 2. Historical Processes of Incorporation and Development 6. Incorporation into and Merger of World-Systems 7. The Great Transition Debate and World-Systems Analysis 8. The Social Foundations of Global Conflict and Cooperation: Globalization and Global Elite Integration, 19th to 21st Century 9. The East Asian Path of Development 10. Darfur: The Periphery of the Periphery Part 2: Theory and Critiques 3. Theoretical Frontiers in World-Systems Analysis 11. Externality, Contact Periphery and Incorporation 12. Wallerstein’s World-System: Roots and Contributions 13. The Structures of Knowledge: Conceptualizing the Socio-Cultural Arena of Historical Capitalism 14. The Multiplicity of National Development in the World-System: A Critical Perspective 15. Crisis in the World-System: Theoretical and Policy Implications 16. Core, Semiperiphery, Periphery: A Variable Geometry Presiding over Conceptualization 17. Terminal Crisis or a New Systemic Cycle of Accumulation? 4. Explicit Modeling as a Research Strategy 18. Measuring Transition and Hierarchy of States within the World-Systems Paradigm 19. World-Systems as Dissipative Structures: A New Research Agenda 20. Narrating Stories about the World System of the First Global Age, 1400-1800 21. World-Systems Theory and Formal and Simulation Modeling 22. Mathematical Models of the World-System Development 5. Critical Contributions to World-Systems Analysis 23. World System History: Challenging Eurocentric Knowledge 24. The Failure of the "Modern World System" and the New Paradigm of the "Critical Theory of Patriarchy" The "Civilization of Alchemists" as a "System of War" 25. Authenticating 17th Century "Hegemonies": Dutch, Spanish, French, or None? 26. The Challenges of Globalization Theory to World-Systems Analysis Part 3: The Contemporary World-Economy 6. Markets and Exchange 27. Surplus Drain and Dark Value in the Modern World-System 28. The Silence of Finance and Its Critics: Portfolio Investors in the World-System 29. Debt Crises in the Modern World-System 30. Economic-Political Interaction in the Core/Periphery Hierarchy 31. The Other Side of the Global Formation: Structures of the World Lumpeneconomy 7. Networks and Chains 32. Global Cities, Global Commodity Chains And The Geography of Core-Ness in the Capitalist World-System 33. Trade, Unequal Exchange and Global Commodity Chains: World-System Structure and Economic Development 34. Global Cities and World City Networks 35. How Individuals Shape Global Production 36. World Cities in Asia 37. The Internet and the World-System(s) 8. Globalization and Distribution 38. Globalization: Theories of Convergence and Divergence in the World-System 39. Social Stratification and Mobility: National and Global Dimensions 40. Income Inequality in the World: Looking Back and Ahead 41. Billionaires and Global Inequality: Does An Increase in One Indicate an Increase in the Other? 42. The Pervasiveness of ICT in Our Present Modern World-System