Christopher Chase-Dunn

Vita (10-13-10)

 

Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director, Institute for Research on World-Systems
Department of Sociology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA.92521-0419 USA
 (951) 827-2062 Fax (951) 827-3330, E-mail: chriscd@ucr.edu
web page: http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/ccdhmpg.htm


PERSONAL DATA

  • Date of Birth: January 10, 1944
  • Place of Birth: Corvallis, Oregon
  • Marital Status: Married

EDUCATION

  • 1964 Shasta College, Redding, CA., Journalism
  • 1966 University of California, Berkeley, Psychology, B.A.
  • 1968 Stanford University, Sociology, MA
  • 1975 Stanford University, Sociology, PhD. Dissertation:

International Economic Dependence in the World-System


AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • 1966-1967 National Institute of Health Traineeship, Stanford.
  • 1973-1974 University Consortium for World Order Studies, James P. Warburg Research Fellow.
  • 1992 Distinguished Publication Award, Political Economy of the World-System section of American Sociological Association for Global Formation.
  • 1993 Elected to Sociological Research Association.
  • 2001 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2002 Elected President of the Research Committee on Economy and Society (RC02) of the International Sociology Association
  • 2008-2009 Elected Distinguished Senior Scholar of the International Political Economy (IPE) section of the International Studies Association
     

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

  • 1975-1983 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Relations, Johns Hopkins University.
  • 1983-1988 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.
  • 1988-2000 Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.
  • 2000- present, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California-Riverside

 

ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS

            2000-present, Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems

            2003-2008, Chair of the Political Economy and Global Social Change graduate specialization, UCR Department of Sociology

·                                 2005-2008 UCR Senate Committee on Academic Personnel, Chair 2008 (all tenure-track merits and promotions)

·                                 2008-2010, Director of the University of California-Riverside University Honors Program (900 undergraduates, a staff of five and an annual budget of                             $900,000

·                                 2010- Chair of the Graduate Affairs Committee, UCR Sociology Department

 


RESEARCH GRANTS and APPOINTMENTS

  • 1973-1974 Project Director of Cross-national Study of the Effects of International Economic Dependence on Income Inequality, University Consortium for World Order Studies.
  • 1975-1978 Associate Research Scientist, Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research, Johns Hopkins University.
  • 1979-1984 Principal Investigator of Cross-national Research Project on the World Division of Labor and the Development of City Systems (National Science Foundation).
  • 1991-1993 Principal Investigator research project on "Intersocietal inequalities in very small world-systems" National Science Foundation, Sociology Program.
  • 1998-1999 Principal Investigator, Guatemalan Development and Democracy, National Science Foundation, Division of International Programs
  • 2000-2002 Principal Investigator, "Trajectories and causes of structural globalization, 1800-2000," National Science Foundation, Sociology Program.
  • 2003 Co-Principal Investigator, "Labor solidarity and transportation in the globalizing commodity chains and circuits of capital of the Pacific Rim." UC Institute for Labor Education (with Edna Bonacich and Thomas E. Reifer).
  • 2004 Co-Principal Investigator, "Social Bases of Global Elite Integration" National Science Foundation, Sociology Program (with Thomas E. Reifer)
  • 2005 Co-Principal Investigator, “Global state formation: modeling the rise, fall and upward sweeps of large polities in world history and the global future” National Science Foundation, Human Social Dynamics Program (with E.N. Anderson and Peter Turchin)
  • 2006 Co-Principal Investigator, “US Labor Revitalization and the Global Social Forum Process” UC Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF) with Ellen Reese.

 


AREAS OF TEACHING INTEREST

  • Transnational Social Movements
  • Comparative Civilizations and World Cultures
  • Political Economy and Global Social Change
  • Socio-Cultural Evolution
  • World-Systems Ecology
  • Urbanization and Settlement Systems
  • Macrocomparative Research Methods

CURRENT RESEARCH

  • The rise, fall and upward sweeps of settlements and polities since the Paleolithic and trajectories of global state formation
  • Biotechnology as a new lead industry in the global political economy
  • World cities and suburbanization
  • Trajectory of U.S. hegemony
  • World Revolutions
  • Web Science
  • Transnational Social Movements and Populist Regimes in the Global South
  • Global Elite Integration Since 1840
  • The evolution of global governance, global state formation and global democracy

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • 1984-1986 Chair of the International Studies Association section on International Political Economy.
  • 1983-1993 Chair of Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.
  • 1994-present Coordinator of the Program on Crossnational Sociology and  International Development, Johns Hopkins University.
  • 1982 Chair of the American Sociological Association Section on the Political Economy of the World-System.
  • 1994 Member of Johns Hopkins University Committee to Organize a Global Studies Program.
  • 1973-present Associate Editor, Critical Sociology.
  • 1979-1982 Associate Editor, Social Problems.
  • 1978-1985 Advisory Editor, Sociological Quarterly.
  • 1980-1989 Editorial Advisory Board, International Studies Quarterly.
  • 1984-present Member of Board of Editors, International Political Economy Yearbook. IPE Section of the International Studies Association.
  • 1988-1991 Member of Ruling Council of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations.
  • 1988-90 Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Political and Military Sociology.
  • 1992-1997 International Board, Review of International Political Economy.
  • 1992-2000 Founder and former List-owner, wsn, a world-systems electronic conferencing network at csf.colorado.edu
  • 1994-2007, Founder and Former Editor, Journal of World-Systems Research
  • 1995-2002 Treasurer RC02 Economy and Society Research Committee, International Sociological Association
  • 2000- Founder and Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California, Riverside.
  • 2002  Series Editor of two book series on global social change for the Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • 2002-2006 President of RC02 Economy and Society Research Committee, International Sociological Association
  • 2003-present, Member of Executive Board, Global Studies Association-North America
  • Special Advisor, Globalizations 2005-present
  • 2005-2008 UCR Committee on Academic Personnel
  • 2007- Member of the International Advisory Board of Hemispheres: A Journal of the Global South
  • 2008-2010, Director of the University of California-Riverside University Honors Program
  • Journal Referee or Book Reviewer for American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Sociology of Education, Comparative Political Studies, Social Forces, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Comparative Studies in Society and History, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Sociological Inquiry, Current Anthropology, Journal of Asian Studies, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Social Dynamics, Journal of Archaeological Research, Globalization, Cooperation and Conflict and Historical Materialism.

BOOKS

Christopher Chase-Dunn (ed.) Socialist States in the World-System. Beverly Hills: Sage. 1982.

Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn. Transnational Corporations and Underdevelopment. New York: Praeger, 1985.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. Global Formation: Structures of The World-Economy. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. American Sociology Association PEWS Distinguished Publication Award, 1992. Revised Second edition published in 1998 by Rowman and Littlefield.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall (eds.) Core/Periphery Relations in the Precapitalist Worlds. Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.

Christopher Chase-Dunn (ed.) The Historical Evolution of the International Political Economy In the Library of International Political Economy series, Cheltanham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1995.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems Boulder, CO.: Westview. 1997.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M. Mann. The Wintu and Their Neighbors: A Small World-System in Northern California, University of Arizona Press,1998.

Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.) The Future of Global Conflict  London: Sage. 1999.
 

Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2000 The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner. Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association Outstanding Book of the Year Award, August 18.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Nelson Amaro and Susanne Jonas (eds.) 2001 Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.) 2005. Hegemonic Declines: Present and Past. Boulder, CO.: Paradigm Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson (eds.) 2005.  The Historical Evolution of World-Systems. London: Palgrave.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones (eds.) 2006  Global Social Change: Comparative and World Historical Perspectives. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Donatella della Porta, Rosalba Icaza Garza, Jeffrey S. Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Peter Jay Smith and Rolando Vazquez 2007 Global Democracy and the World Social Forums. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Lerro,  Forthcoming Social Change: World-Systems and Globalization. Allyn and Bacon.

Salvatore Babones and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.) Handbook of World-Systems Analysis: Theory and Research London: Routledge

 


REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1975. "The effects of international economic dependence and inequality: a cross-national study," American Sociological Review 40:720-738. Reprinted in John W. Meyer and Michael T. Hannan (eds.) National Development and the World System, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Richard Rubinson. 1977. "Toward a structural perspective on the world-system." Politics and Society 7, 4:453-76.

Volker Bornschier, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Richard Rubinson. 1978. "Cross-national evidence of the effects of foreign investment and aid on economic growth and inequality: a survey of findings and a reanalysis," American Journal of Sociology 84, 3:651-83. Reprinted in Pp. 187-210 in A. Seligson. The Gap Between Rich and Poor. Boulder: Westview Press, 1984. Revised version in Volker Bornschier, Multinationale Konzerne, Wirtschaftspolitik und nationale Entwicklung im Weltsystem. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1980.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1979. "Comparative research on world-system characteristics." International Studies Quarterly 23, 4:601-623, December.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1980. "Socialist states in the capitalist world-economy," Social Problems 27, 5:505-525, June.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1980. "Stages of dependency or cycles of world- system development?" Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 8, 1:1-24, Fall/Winter.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1981. "Interstate system and capitalist world-economy: one logic or two?" International Studies Quarterly 25, 1:19-42, March. Reprinted in World System Structure: Continuity and Change, edited by W. Ladd Hollist and James Rosenau. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981 and in Joseph Grieco (ed.) The International System and the International Political Economy, London: Edward Elgar, 1993; and in George T. Crane and Abla Amawi (eds.) The Theoretical Evolution of the International Political Economy, New York: Oxford University Press.

T. R. Durham, Judy Morgan, Barbara Larcom and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1981. "Control of the work process: the workers' viewpoint," International Journal of Health Services 11, 1:207-220.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Aaron Pallas and Jeffrey Kentor. 1982. "Old and new research designs for studying the world-system," Comparative Political Studies 15, 3:341-356 (October).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Joan Sokolovsky. 1983. "Interstate systems, world-empires and the capitalist world-economy," International Studies Quarterly 27, 3.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1985. "The coming of urban primacy in Latin America," Comparative Urban Research XI, 1-2: 14-31.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1988. "Comparing world-systems: Toward a theory of semiperipheral development," Comparative Civilizations Review, 19:29-66, Fall.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1990 "World state formation: historical processes and emergent necessity" Political Geography Quarterly, 9,2: 108-30 (April).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 1993 "Comparing world-systems: concepts and working hypotheses." Social Forces 71,4 (June).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, 1994 "The historical evolution of world-systems" Sociological Inquiry 64,3:257-280 (August).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Podobnik, "The next world war: world-system cycles and trends," Journal of World-Systems Research 1:6, 1995. Spanish translation in John Saxe-Fernandez (Coordinator) Globalizacion: Critica de un paradigma. Mexico, D.F.: Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas, UNAM, 1997.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, 1998 "World-Systems in North America: Networks, Rise and Fall and Pulsations of Trade in Stateless Systems," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22,1:23-72.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 1998 "Ecological degradation and the evolution of world-systems" Journal of World-Systems Research 3: 403 - 431.

Christopher Chase-Dunn 1999 "Guatemala in the Global System" Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs

Christopher Chase-Dunn, "Globalization: a world-systems perspective," Journal of World-Systems Research 5,2, 1999. Reprinted in Gerhard Preyer and  Mathias Bos (eds.) Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspective in a Sociology of the World-System. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Yukio Kawano and Benjamin Brewer 2000 "Trade Globalization since 1795: waves of integration in the world-system," American Sociological Review 65:77-95 (February).   Scientific American article: IROWS Director Christopher Chase-Dunn’s research on long waves of trade globalization (with Yukio Kawano and Benjamin Brewer), originally published in the American Sociological Review (February, 2000) was summarized in Scientific American June 2003. See 

Christopher Chase-Dunn,  Susan Manning and Thomas D. Hall, 2000 "Rise and Fall: East-West Synchronicity and Indic Exceptionalism Reexamined" Social Science History 24,4: 721-48(Winter) .

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2002 "Globalization from below: toward a collectively rational and democratic global commonwealth"  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 581: 48-61 (May).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Susan Manning, 2002 "City systems and world-systems: four millennia of city growth and decline,"  Cross-Cultural Research 36, 4: 379-398 (November). Reprinted in Ronan Paddison 2009 Urban Studies Economy ISBN: 978-1-84787-258-6 (September) SAGE Publications

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew K. Jorgenson, “Regions and Interaction Networks: an institutional materialist perspective,”  2003 International Journal of Comparative Sociology 44,1:433-450.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew K. Jorgenson, “Interaction Networks and Structural Globalization: A Comparative World-Systems Perspective “ 2003 Society in Transition 34,2:206-220.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas Reifer, Andrew Jorgenson and Shoon Lio 2005 "The U.S. Trajectory: A Quantitative Reflection, Sociological Perspectives 48,2: 233-254

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2005 “Social evolution and the future of world society” Journal of World-Systems Research 11,2: 171-192 Special Issue: Globalizations from ‘Above’ and ‘Below’: The Future of World Society Edited by: Mark Herkenrath, Claudia König, Hanno Scholtz, & Thomas Volken (e-journal, author holds copyright)

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2007 “Sociocultural evolution and the future of world society” World Futures 63,5-6:408-424.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Christine Petit, Richard Niemeyer, Robert A. Hanneman and Ellen Reese 2007 “The contours of solidarity and division among global movements” International Journal of Peace Studies 12,2: 1-15 (Autumn/Winter)

Ellen Reese, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Kadambari Anantram, Gary Coyne, Matheu Kaneshiro, Ashley N. Koda, Roy Kwon and Preeta Saxena 2008 “Research Note: Surveys of World Social Forum participants show influence of place and base in the global public sphere” Mobilization: An International Journal. 13,4:431-445. Revised version in A Handbook of the World Social Forums Editors: Jackie Smith, Scott Byrd, Ellen Reeseand Elizabeth Smythe. Paradigm Publishers

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2010 “Evolution of Nested Networks in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest: A Comparative World-Systems Approach”. Evolution: An Interdisciplinary        Almanac.

 

Chase-Dunn, Christopher, Thomas D. Hall, Richard Niemeyer, Alexis Alvarez, Hiroko Inoue, Kirk Lawrence, and Anders Carlson. 2010. “Middlemen and Marcher States in Central Asia and East/West Empire Synchrony.” Social Evolution and History 9:1(March):1-29.

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn “Globalization from Below: toward a collectively rational and democratic global commonwealth” Journal of Globalization Studies 1,1: 46-57 (May)(revised version of an article published in Annals of the American Academy of Science, 2002)

 

OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1981. "Response to critiques of 'Socialist states in the capitalist world-economy,'" Social Problems 28, 5:527-532, June.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1982. "World division of labor and the development of city systems: a longitudinal cross-national study," Comparative Research 9, 3:3-9, Winter.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1983. "Urbanization in the World-system: New Directions for Research," in Comparative Urban Research, 9, 2:41-46. Reprinted in Michael Peter Smith (ed.) Cities in Transformation: Class, Capital and the State. Beverly Hills: Sage. 1984.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1990 "Resistance to imperialism: semiperipheral actors," Review, 13,1:1-31 (Winter).

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1992. "The national state as an agent of modernity." Problems of Communism XLI, January-April, :29-37.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1992 "The Wintu and their neighbors: a very small world-system." In Proceedings of Society for California Archaeology.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 1992 "World-systems and modes of production: toward the comparative study of transformations." Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 18,1:81-117.

Thomas D. Hall and Christopher Chase-Dunn 1993 "The world-systems perspective and archaeology: forward in to the past." Journal of Archaeological Research 1,2:121-143.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, 1993 Comment on Gunder Frank's "Bronze Age world system cycles." Current Anthropology 34,4:407-8 (August-October).

Thomas D. Hall and Christopher Chase-Dunn, 1994 "Forward into the past: world-systems before 1500." Sociological Forum 9,2:295-306.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Alice Willard, "Cities in the Central Political-Military Network Since CE 1200" Comparative Civilizations Review, 30:104-32 (Spring) 1994.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 1994 "The historical evolution of world-systems" Sociological Inquiry 64,3:257-280 (August).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 1995 "The historical evolution of world-systems: iterations and transformations" Protosoziologie Heft 7:23-34. Reprinted in Gerhard Preyer (ed.) Strukturelle Evolution und das Weltsystem:Theorien, Sozialstruktur und evolutionaere Entwicklungen March Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1998.

Boswell, Terry and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1996. "The Future of the World-System" International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 16, 7/8:148-179.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher 1996 "Agency, structure and the world-system," Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 22,2:85-96.

Christopher Chase-Dunn  and  Terry Boswell  1999 "Postcommunism and the Global Commonwealth" Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 24,1-2: 195-219.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Terry Boswell 2004 “Global democracy: a world-systems perspective” Protosociology 20: 15-29.

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2005 “Global public social science” The American Sociologist 36,3-4:121-132 (Fall/Winter). Reprinted  Pp. 179-194 in Lawrence T. Nichols (ed.) Public Sociology: The Contemporary Debate. New Brunswick, NJ: Transnaction Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kirk Lawrence 2010 “Alive and well: a response to Sanderson” International Journal of Comparative Sociology


SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES EDITED

Christopher Chase-Dunn (ed.) Special Issue of Review on "Quantitative Studies of the World-System." Volume 8, Number 4, Spring, 1985.

Christopher Chase-Dunn (ed.) Special Issue of Review on "Comparing World-Systems," Volume 15, Number 3, Summer, 1992. Introduction: "The Comparative Study of World-Systems." Pp. 313-334. 


ARTICLES IN COLLECTIONS

John W. Meyer, John Boli-Bennett and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1975. "Convergence and divergence in development," Annual Review of Sociology, V. 1.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1978. "Core-periphery relations: the effects of core competition," in Barbara H. Kaplan (ed.) Social Change in the Capitalist World Economy. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Richard Rubinson. 1979. "Cycles, trends, and new departures in world-system development," in John W. Meyer and Michael T. Hannan (eds.) National Development and the World System: Educational, Economic, and Political Change, 1950-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1980. "The development of core capitalism in the antebellum United States: tariff politics and class struggle in an upwardly mobile semiperiphery" in Albert J. Bergesen (ed.) Studies of the Modern World-System. New York: Academic Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1982. "Models and interpretation in world-system research: comments on Bach," in Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein (eds.) Processes of the World-System, Vol. 3, Political Economy of the World-System Annuals (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1980). Reprinted in T. K. Hopkins and I. Wallerstein (eds.) World-Systems Analysis, Beverly Hills: Sage, 1982.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1982. "The uses of formal comparative research on dependency and the world-system perspective," Pp. 117-40 in Harry Makler, Alberto Martinelli and Neil Smelser (eds.) The New International Economy. London: Sage Publications.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1982. "International economic policy in a declining core state." Pp. 77-96 in William R. Avery and David Rapkin (eds.) America in a Changing World Political Economy. New York: Longmans.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher. 1982. "The uses of formal comparative research on dependency theory and the world-system perspective" pp. 117-140 in Harry Makler, Alberto Martinelli and Neil Smelser (eds.) The New International Economy Beverly Hills: Sage.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1983. "Socialist state policy in the capitalist world-economy." In Patrick McGowan and Charles H. Kegley (eds.) Foreign Policy and the Modern World System, Vol. 7, Sage International Yearbook of Foreign Policy Studies.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1983. "Three approaches to the kernel of the capitalist world-economy." In William R. Thompson (ed.) Contending Approaches to World System Analysis. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1983. "Inequality, structural mobility and dependency reversal in the capitalist world-economy." In Charles F. Doran et al. (eds.) North-South Relations: Studies of Dependency Reversal. New York: Praeger.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1984. "The world-system since 1950: what has really changed?" In Charles Bergquist (ed.) Labor in the World Economy. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1985. "The system of world cities: A. D. 800-1975." In Michael Timberlake (ed.) Urbanization in the World Economy. New York: Academic Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1985. "Historical development of the global political economy." In W. Ladd Hollist and F. Lamond Tullis (eds.) A Global Political Economy, Vol. 1 of the International Political Economy Yearbook. Boulder: Westview.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1985. "El fenomeno de primacia de una ciudad an los sistemas urbanos latinoamericanos: su surgimiento," Pp. 27-46 in J. E. Hardoy and A. Portes (eds.) Ciudades y Sistemas Urbanos: Economia Informal y Desorden Espacial. Buenos Aires: CLACSO.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1987. "Cycles, trends or transformation?: The world-system since 1945," Pp. 57-84 in Terry Boswell and Albert Bergesen (eds.) America's Changing Role in the World-System. New York: Praeger.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1987. "The Korean Trajectory in the world-system," Pp. 270-304 in Kyong-dong Kim (ed.) Dependency Issues in Korean Development: Comparative Perspectives. Seoul: Seoul National University Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kenneth O'Reilly. 1989. "Core wars of the future" Pp. 47-64 in Robert K. Schaeffer (ed.) War in the World-System. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, 1990 "The limits of hegemony," in David P. Rapkin (ed.) World Leadership and Hegemony, Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, 1992 "The role of cities in the transformation of world-systems" Volker Bornschier and Peter Lengyel (eds.) World Society Studies, Volume 2. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, 1990 "Socialism and capitalism on a world scale" Pp. 67-86 in William K. Tabb (ed.) The Future of Socialism, New York: Monthly Review Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, 1992 "The spiral of capitalism and socialism," in Louis F. Kriesberg (ed.) Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, Volume 14. Greenwich, CT. : JAI Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1992. "Theoretical Approaches to world-systems analysis." Pp. 3-20 in Chronis Polychroniou (ed.) Perspectives and Issues in International Political Economy, Westport, CT.: Praeger.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, 1994 "The Gulf War and the World-System." Pp. 198-217 in John O'Loughlin, Thomas Mayer and Edward S. Greenberg (eds.) War and Its Consequences: Lessons from the Persian Gulf Conflict. Harper Collins.

Christopher Chase-Dunn 1993 "Technology and the logic of world-systems" Pp. 85-106 in Ronen P. Palan and Barry Gills (eds.) Transcending the State-Global Divide: The Neo-Structuralist Agenda in International Relations. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, "United States culture and world culture." pp. 37-62 in Manwoo Lee, Su-Hoon Lee, Francine Fournier and Tae-Ho Yoo (eds.) Culture and Development in a new Era and in a Transforming World. Seoul: Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University and UNESCO.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, "Comment on Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban's 'Living on the edge: core/periphery relations in ancient southeastern Mesoamerica." Current Anthropology 35,4, 1994.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, "Cross-world-system comparisons: similarities and differences," Pp. 109-135 in Stephen Sanderson (ed.) Civilizations and World Systems Studying World-Historical Change. Walnut Creek, CA.: Altamira Press (1995).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Peter Grimes, "World-Systems Analysis." Annual Review of Sociology 1995. 21:387-417.

Christopher Chase-Dunn "World-systems: similarities and differences" Pp. 246-258 in The Underdevelopment of Development: Essays in honor of Andre Gunder Frank. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage 1996.

Thomas D. Hall and Christopher Chase-Dunn "Comparing world-systems: concepts and hypotheses" Pp. 13-28 in Peter N. Peregrine and Gary M. Feinman (eds.) Pre-Columbian World-Systems Madison, WI.: Prehistory Press 1996.

Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn  1999 "Technological change, globalization and hegemonic rivalry" in V. Bornschier and C. Chase-Dunn (eds.) The Future of Global Conflict. London: Sage.

Christopher Chase-Dunn "Globalization: a world-systems perspective" In Jose Ciprut (ed.) Of Fears and Foes: International Relations in an Evolving Global Political Economy. (forthcoming).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 1998 "The historical evolution of world-systems: interations and transformations," in Gerhard Preyer (ed.) Strukturelle Evolution un das Weltsystem. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp.

Christopher Chase-Dunn "Forward" Pp. xi-xiii in P. Nick Kardulias (ed.) World-Systems Theory in Practice. Lanham, MD.: Rowman and Littlefield 1999.

Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn 2000 "From state socialism to global democracy: the transnational politics of the modern world-system." Pp. 289-306 in Thomas D. Hall (ed.) A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology. Lanham, MD.: Rowman and Littlefield

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Thomas D. Hall.  2000.  "Comparing World-systems to Explain Social Evolution."  Pp. 85-111 in World System History:  The Social Science of Long-Term Change, edited by Robert Denemark, Jonathan Friedman, Barry K. Gills, and George Modelski.  London: Routledge.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. "Paradigms Bridged: Institutional Materialism and World-Systemic Evolution," for Structure, Culture, and History, 2000 edited by Sing Chew and David Knottnerus. Lanham, MD:  Rowman and Littlefield, in press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2001 "Globalization from below in Guatemala" in C. Chase-Dunn, Nelson Amaro and Susanne Jonas (eds.) Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development. 2001 Rowman and Littlefield.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, 2001"Globalization From Below: Toward a Collectively Rational and Democratic Global Commonwealth" in G. Kohler and E.J.Chaves (eds.), Globalization: Critical Perspectives. New York: Nova Science.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, 2001 "World-Systems Theorizing" in Jonathan Turner (ed.) Handbook of Sociological Theory. New York: Plenum.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew Jorgenson 2003, "Systems of Cities,"  in Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll.  Encyclopedia of Population. Vol. 1. Pp. 379-398.New York: Macmillan Reference USA.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Barry Gills 2005 “Waves of globalization and resistance in the capitalist world system: social movements and critical globalization studies.” Pp. 45-54  in Richard Appelbaum and William Robinson (eds.) Critical Globalization Studies

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez and Daniel Pasciuti, 2005 “World-systems in the biogeosphere: three thousand years of urbanization, empire formation and climate change.” Pp. 311-332 in Paul Ciccantell, Gay Seidman and David A. Smith (eds.) Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy. JAI/Elsevier.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez, and Daniel Pasciuti "Power and Size; urbanization and empire formation in world-systems" Pp. 92-112 in C. Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson (eds.) The Historical Evolution of World-Systems. New York: Palgrave.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Daniel Pasciuti, Alexis Alvarez and Thomas D. Hall. 2006 Waves of Globalization and Semiperipheral Development 
in the Ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian World-Systems Pp. 114-138 in Barry Gills and William R. Thompson (eds.), 
Globalization and Global History London: Routledge.
 
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 2006 “Ecological degradation and the evolution of world-systems
Pp. 231-252 in Andrew Jorgenson and Edward Kick (eds.) Globalization and the Environment.  Leiden: Brill.
 
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Ellen Reese 2007 “The World Social Forum: a global party in the making?” Pp. 53-92 in Katrina Sehm-Patomaki and Marko Ulvila (eds.) Global Political Parties, London: Zed Press. 
 

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Ellen Reese, Mark Herkenrath, Rebecca Giem, Erika Guttierrez, Linda Kim, and Christine Petit, “North-South Contradictions and Bridges at the World Social Forum” 2008 Pp341-366  in Rafael Reuveny and William R. Thompson (eds.) NORTH AND SOUTH IN THE WORLD POLITICAL ECONOMY. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew Jorgenson 2007 “Trajectories of trade and investment globalization” Pp. 165-185 in Ino Rossi (ed.) Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theoretical and Methodological  Approaches. New York: Springer

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas D. Hall and Peter Turchin 2007 “World-systems in the biogeosphere: urbanization, state formation and climate change since the Iron Age” Pp. 132-148 in Alf Hornborg and Carole Crumley (eds.) The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Cahnge and Sustainability Since the Neolithic.  Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

 

Ellen Reese, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Erika Gutierrez, Rebecca Álvarez, Linda Kim, and Christine Petit (forthcoming) “ Unions and the World Social Forum Process:

Report from the WSF05 Survey” Forthcoming in Jerry Harris (ed.) GSA Papers 2007: Contested Terrains of Globalization. Chicago: ChangeMaker.

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Hiroko Inoue, Alexis Alvarez and Richard Niemeyer 2009 “Global State Formation and Global Democracy: a World Historical Perspective” Pp. 65-84 in Yildiz Atasoy (ed) Hegemonic Transitions,,the State and Crisis in Neoliberal Capitalism. London & New York: Routledge

 

Hall, Thomas D., Christopher Chase-Dunn and Richard Niemeyer. 2009 “The Roles of Central Asian Middlemen and Marcher States in Afro-Eurasian World-System Synchrony.” Pp. 69-82 in The Rise of Asia and the Transformation of the World-System, Political Economy of the World-System Annuals. Vol XXX, edited by Ganesh K. Trinchur. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press.

 

C.K. Chase-Dunn 2008 “The world-system as a social problem” in Vincent Parrillo (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA http://www.sagepub.com/refbooksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book229800
 
C.K. Chase-Dunn ,(2008),WORLD URBANIZATION: THE ROLE OF SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS IN HUMAN SOCIAL EVOLUTION, in World System History, [Eds. George Modelski,Robert A.Denemark], in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net] 
 
C. Chase-Dunn and R.E. Niemeyer 2009 “The world revolution of 20xx” Pp. 35-57 in Mathias Albert, Gesa Bluhm, Han Helmig, Andreas Leutzsch, Jochen Walter (eds.) Transnational Political Spaces. Campus Verlag: Frankfurt/New York
 

C. Chase-Dunn and Terry Boswell 2009 “Semiperipheral devolopment and global democracy” PP 213-232 in Owen Worth and Phoebe Moore, Globalization and the “New” Semiperipheries, Palgrave.

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Matheu Kaneshiro 2009 “Stability and Change in the contours of Alliances Among movements in the social forum process” Pp. 119-133 in David Fasenfest (ed.) Engaging Social Justice. Leiden: Brill.

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Richard Niemeyer, Alexis Alvarez and Hiroko Inoue 2009 “Scale transitions and the evolution of global governance since the Bronze Age” Pp. 261-284 in William R. Thompson (ed.) Systemic Transitions. New York: Palgrave MacMillan

 

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Thomas D. Hall. Forthcoming “Human Sociocultural Evolution, Hegemonic Transitions and Global State Formation.” Chapter 5 in Global Political Economy in the Era of Andre Gunder Frank, edited by Patrick Manning and Robert Fagley Forthcoming University of Pittsburgh Press.
 

Chase-Dunn Christopher and Hiroko Inoue  Forthcoming “Immanuel Wallerstein George Ritzer and Jeffrey Stepinsky (eds.) New Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

 

Thomas Hall and Christopher Chase-Dunn 2009 “Changement social er integration des reseaux d’change dans la longue duree” Pp 159-190 in Philippe BEAUJARD, Laurent BERGER & Philippe NOREL (eds.) Histoire globale, mondialisations et capitalisme  Paris: éditions La découverte, collection Recherches.

 

Reprint of Chapter 1 of Jackie Smith et al Global Democracy and the WSFs, “Globalization and the Emergence of the World Social Forums  Pp. 277-293, Manfred B. Steger (ed.) 2010  "Globalization: the Greatest Hits" Boulder: CO: Paradigm publishers).

 

 


BOOK REVIEWS

"Who gets what and why: a review of Samir Amin's Unequal Development, Michael Lipton's Why Poor People Stay Poor, and Robert W. Tucker's The Inequality of Nations, "Working Papers for a New Society, VI, 2,80-86. March/April, 1978.

"Family life and economic institutions: a review essay on Eli Zaretzky's Capitalism, The Family and Personal Life," with Andrew Cherlin. Contemporary Sociology 8, 1:62-4 (1979).

"A world-system perspective on Cardoso and Faletto's Dependency and Development in Latin America." Latin American Research Review 17, 1:166-171 (1982).

"Unequal development: a review of Samir Amin's Unequal Development." Insurgent Sociologist, 8,1:78-81 (Winter, 1978).

"Review of Working for Capitalism by Richard Pfeffer." Insurgent Sociologist, IX, 4:93-95. (Spring, 1980).

"Review of Is The Red Flag Flying: The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today" by Albert Szymmanski. Insurgent Sociologist 10, 2 (Spring, 1981).

"Review of Crisis: In the World Economy" by Andre Gunder Frank. In Economic Development and Cultural Change 31, 2:410-416, January 1983.

"Review of The World-System of Capitalism: Past and Present." Edited by Walter Goldfrank. Social Forces, 59, 4:1323-1324 (1981).

"Review of Raymond C. Kelly, The Nuer Conquest: The Structure and Development of An Expansionist System." PEWS News, Summer, 1988.

"Review of Matthew Melko and Leighton R. Scott (eds.) The Boundaries of Civilizations in Space and Time." Comparative Civilizations Review, 20, Spring, 1989.

"Review of Thomas D. Hall, Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880." Contemporary Sociology 19,3:370-1, May, 1990.

"Review of Ross Hassig's Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control." Comparative Civilizations Review 24:101-105 (Spring, 1991).

"Review of Dale Tomich's Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848." American Journal of Sociology, 97,3:859-861, November, 1991.

"Review of Norman Yoffee and George Cowgill (eds.) The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations." Contemporary Sociology, 21,5:689-90 (September) 1992.

"Review of Giovanni Arrighi's Long Twentieth Century and Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes" Contemporary Sociology, 25,2:161-65.

"Review of William P. Robinson's Promoting Polyarchy. Contemporary Sociology. 26,6:726-7 (November).

"Review of Ankie M. M Hoogvelt's Globalization and the Postcolonial World. The Journal of Asian Studies 1999:805-6.

"Review of  Andre Gunder Frank's Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. American Journal of Sociology, January, 2000.

Review of George Modelski, World Cities: -3000 to 2000 Washington DC: FAROS 2000, 2003” in Globalizations 3,3:419-421 (September) 2003 (with Dan Pasciuti).

Review of Saskia Sassen’s Territory*Authority*Rights (Princeton University Press 2006) in Contemporary Sociology 37,1:77. 2008 (with Kirk Lawrence).

 

Review essay on Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing, London: Verso  in Historical Materialism. Volume 18 #1, 2010

Review of Heikki Patomaki’s The Political Economy of Global Security: War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance (London: Routledge 2010) for review symposium in Cooperation and Conflict The Evolution of Capitalist Globalization and Possible Human Futures: Hamlet without the Prince

Review of Sylvia Walby’s Globalization and Inequalities (London: Sage 2009) for Contemporary Sociology



Opinion Pieces:
Christopher Chase-Dunn "History Recycled." Baltimore Sun, January 19, 2000
Christopher Chase-Dunn "Agricultural Genomics: the focus on solutions." Fiat Lux February 2001.


Public Presentations:

Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Globalization and global democracy” Riverside Learning is Forever (LIFE) Society. January 19,  2006

Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Economic and political globalization”  “Let’s talk” with Barbara Moore, KVCR Interview, January 20, 2006.

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn, “The Rise and Collapse of Civilizations” Presentation at the UCR Heckman Center, Palm Desert, January 25, 2006

 

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn, ”Transnational social movements and global party formation” UCR Affiliates, March 6, 2006.

 

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Richard Niemeyer and Juliann Allison, “Futures of biotechnology and geopolitics” A paper presented at the Genencor celebration seminar, June 9, 2006 in Palo Alto.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Roy Kwon, A keynote address presented at the international conference on “The Global Economic Crisis: Perceptions and Impacts” September 10-11, 2010 The World Society Foundation, University of Zurich. “Crises and Counter-Movements in World Evolutionary Perspective”

 

University Service:

 

Director: Institute for Research on World-Systems 2000-present

 

Co-Director (with Juliann Allison), Program on Global Studies, UCR campus arm of the Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict (MRU based at UCSD) 2002-present

 

Member, Faculty Panel on Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Mary Robinson, University of California-Riverside, Fall 2005.

 

Member, Senate Committee on Academic Personnel, 2005-2008

 

Member, Senate International Education Committee, 2005

 

Member, Search committee for the Director of the Edward J. Blakely Center for Sustainable Suburban Development, 2005.

 

Faculty Advisor: UCR Model UN project. 2004-present.

 

Faculty Advisor: CALPIRG,  2002-present

 

Member: UCR Faculty Association


Unpublished Papers:

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Alice Willard, "Systems of cities and world-systems: settlement size hierarchies and cycles of political centralization, 2000 BC-1988AD" A paper presented at the International Studies Association meeting, March 24-27, 1993, Acapulco.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Edward Clewett and Elaine Sundahl, " A very small world-system in Northern California: the Wintu and their neighbors." A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, April 8, 1992.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Mahua Sarkar, "Place names and intersocietal interaction: Wintu expansion into Hokan territory in late prehistoric Northern California," A paper presented a the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology,. 1993, University of New Hampshire.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Elena Ermolaeva, "The ancient Hawaiian world-system: research in progress," A paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, March 29, 1994, Washington, DC.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, "Simultaneities of world-systems development: cities, empires and climate change."
An unfunded proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation.
http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/archive/papers/c-d&hall/prop5/prop5.htm

Christopher Chase-Dunn, "Conflict Among Core States: World-System Cycles and Trends"
An unfunded proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation (Sociology Program), January 23, 1996.
http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/archive/papers/c-d&hall/warprop.htm

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall
The Chesapeake World-System: complexity, hierarchy and pulsations of long range interaction in prehistory
A paper presented at the International Studies Association, Washington, DC February 19, 1999.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, "Semiperipheral development in the Southwest Asian world-system, BCE 9000-1500." Presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles, March 18.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, "Modeling dynamical nested networks in the prehistoric U.S. Southwest"  Presented to the working group on ‘analyzing complex macrosystems as dynamic networks” at the Santa Fe Institute, April 29-30, 2004

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Upward Sweeps in the Historical Evolution of World-Systems IROWS Working Paper #20

#49  Christopher Chase-Dunn and James Love, Social Movement Networks as Reflected in Web Publications          

 #50  Christopher Chase-Dunn, Richard Niemeyer, Preeta Saxena, Matheu Kaneshiro, James Love and Amanda Spears,

                   The New Global Left: Movements and Regimes

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Hiroko Inoue, Can You Really Study the World-System in Second Life? IROWS Working Paper #51

 #53 Christopher Chase-Dunn, Hiroko Inoue, Alexis Alvarez, Kirk Lawrence and James Love

                    Synchronous East-West Urban and Empire Upsweeps?

   #55  Christopher Chase-Dunn and Hiroko Inoue “Accelerating Global State Formation and Democracy”

   #56  James Love, Alexis Alvarez, Hiroko Inoue, Kirk Lawrence, Evelyn Courtney, Edwin Elias, Tony Roberts,

               Joseph Genova, Victoria Autelli, Sean Liyanage, Joshua Hopps and Chris Chase-Dunn

               “Semiperipheral Development and Empire Upsweeps Since the Bronze Age”

   #57  Christopher Chase-Dunn and Shoon Lio “Global Class Formation and the New Global Left in World Historical Perspective”

   #58 Christopher Chase-Dunn, Matheu Kaneshiro, James Love, Kirk Lawrence and Edwin Elias,

    Neoliberalism, populist movements and the Pink Tide in Latin America

    #59 Anthony Roberts, Joseph Genova, James Love, Kirk Lawrence, Hiroko Inoue, Evelyn Courtney,  Edwin Elias

               and Christopher Chase-Dunn, Semiperipheral Development in the Mediterranean World