Global
State Formation
for whom?
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Institute
for Research on World-Systems
University
of California, Riverside
Riverside,
CA. 92521
www.irows.ucr.edu
State Formation and the
evolution of human institutions
What is a polity?: bands,
tribes, chiefdoms, states, empires
What is a state?: A
“sovereign” organization with specialized institutions of regional control
(bureaucracies
and armies). The “monopology of legitimate violence”
The growth of polities:
rise and fall and occasional upward jumps.
Hierarchies and Networks:
pulsation and rise and fall
Complex Chiefdoms, Early
states, Empire formation
Expansion of the Central
World-System
Semiperipheral capitalist
city-states
The Rise of the West
Modern nation-states,
capitalism and the interstate system
Waves of economic and
political globalization
Modern colonialism and
decolonization
The rise and fall of
modern hegemonic core powers: the Dutch in the 17th century, the
British in the 19th century, the U.S. in the 20th century
Reproduction of the
Interstate System and the long rise of a global state
Global Governance: The
Concert of Europe; The League of Nations;
The United Nations
Global Class Formation
The transnational capitalist class in the 19th
and the 20th centuries
Transnationalization of workers and citizens
The Globalization Project
and the formation of capitalist transnational state
Reconfiguration of
national states and international institutions for the purposes of
neoliberalism
Waves of Globalization and
Globalization Backlash
Global Keynesianism: the
Tobin Tax, etc. the World Economic Forum
Globalization from below:
the World Social Forum
Globalization from Below vs.
Anti-globalization
Anti-Systemic Transnational
Movements: The Labor Movement; The Women’s Movement; Global Indigenism; The
Environmental Movement
Sticky
Wickets: Hegemonic Rivalry, Global Inequality, Ecocatastrophe