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Political Economy of World-Systems 2002 Conference Riverside, California |
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Abstract Dutch Hegemony and Contemporary Globalization Peter J. Taylor The seventeenth century Dutch Republic is generally viewed as the most unlikely of world hegemons: some leading authorities doubt whether it was even a state! In exploring this conundrum, this paper will develop an interpretation that views the Dutch as the critical hegemon of the modern world-system. If the modern world is identified through its particularly distinctive relation between 'politics' and 'economics', then the processes the Dutch set in motion have not fully developed. In fact a regression can be described that is only being finally turned around by contemporary globalization. In short, the paper asks the question: to what degree is contemporary globalization the Dutch Republic writ large? |
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27th Annual Conference of the Political Economy of World-Systems Spring Hosted by the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside |