Global Systemic Crisis and Semiperipheral Countries
Marilyn Grell-Brisk, University of Neuchâtel
Working paper presented at the FLACSO-ISA Conference, Quito, Ecuador July 27, 2018
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Global Systemic Crisis and Semiperipheral Countries Marilyn Grell-Brisk, University of Neuchtel Working paper presented at the FLACSO-ISA Conference, Quito, Ecuador July 27, 2018 Helpful Readings On the method and logic of global economic
Marilyn Grell-Brisk, University of Neuchâtel
Working paper presented at the FLACSO-ISA Conference, Quito, Ecuador July 27, 2018
On the method and logic of global economic stratification Arrighi, Giovanni and Jessica Drangel. 1986. “Stratification of the World-Economy: An Exploration of the Semi-Peripheral Zone.” Review (Fernand Braudel Center) X(1):9–74. On world-system criticisms and response from Immanuel Wallerstein Prologue of 2003 Edition of Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1974. The Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century, Vol. 1. New York: Academic Press.
Periphery Semiperiphery Core
0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% 18% 2 3 4 5
peripheral economic zone semiperipheral economic zone core economic zone
Percentage of Total World Population 1990 Log GNI Per Capita Periphery Semiperiphery Core
Country positions in the world-economy for the year 1990
Country positions in the world-economy for the year 2000
0% 5% 10% 15% 1 2 3 4 5 6
2015 Log GNI Per Capita Percentage of Total World Population
semiperipheral economic zone
ØALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America)
Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela
ØAFTA (ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Free Trade Area)
§ Brunei, Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand; Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar; Cambodia
ØBRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) ØAIIB (Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank) ØBRICS Banks (New Development Bank, Contingent Reserve Arrangement ØBRI (Belt and Road Initiative formerly One Belt and One Road Initiative)
ØCommodified Citizenship § exchange-value given to citizenship by linking a price to it § intensive expansion of capital into civic life ØTransnationals § limited mobility based on citizenship laws § mobility facilitated by commodified citizenship ØSemiperipheral/Peripheral mobility
Source: Data collected by the author for the period 1990-2015
Tianxia Tixi: Shijie Zhidu Zhexue Daolun [The Tianxia System: A Philosophy for the World Institution] by Zhao Tingyang (2005) ØGeographic Integration
§ all of the physical earth
ØPsychological Integration
§ all of the hearts of all the people in the world
ØInstitutional Integration
§ one world political system and institution
ØHegemony making ØThe consent of different subordinate groups that allow themselves to be led by a dominant group is absolutely necessary. ØDeep global divisions
ØForced cooperation ØForced submission
Grell-Brisk, Marilyn. 2017. China and Global Economic Stratification in an Interdependent World. Palgrave Communications 3:17087 Grell-Brisk, Marilyn. 2018. Eluding National Boundaries: A case study of commodified citizenship and the transnational capitalist class. Societies 8(2) 35 Grell-Brisk, Marilyn. 2018 (forthcoming). Arrested Development? Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World-Economy 1965-2015. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. Grell-Brisk, Marilyn and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2019 (forthcoming). Mind the Gap! Clustered Obstacles to Mobility in Core/Periphery Hierarchy. In Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. 2nd Edition. e.d. Ino Rossi. New York: Springer Karatasli, Sahan Savas. 2017. “The Capitalist World-Economy in the Longue Durée: Changing Modes of the Global Distribution of Wealth.” Sociology of Development 3(2):163–96. Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2003. The Decline of American Power. New York: The New Press.
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