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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


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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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Helpful Readings

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.

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Approach

ØA question of approach

  • Wallerstein conceptualization of semi-periphery
  • structural inequality
  • how do you measure global economic

stratification?

Periphery Semiperiphery Core

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Data and Method

ØArrighi and Drangel

  • Percent of world population as a function of log GNI

per capita (power based on benefits of world division

  • f labor)
  • Percent of world population as a function of military

expenditure (power based on global military capacity)

  • Period of study: 1990 to 2015
  • Time not geographic space held constant
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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

Classic Trimodal World-Economic System

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Movement of Semiperipheral Countries

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Country positions in the world-economy for the year 1990

Movement of Semiperipheral Countries

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Movement of Semiperipheral Countries

Country positions in the world-economy for the year 2000

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Unstable Global Economic Hierarchy

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Unstable Global Economic Hierarchy

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Dismantling of Classic Trimodal Distribution

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New Global Economic Stratification Order

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2015 Log GNI Per Capita Percentage of Total World Population

semiperipheral economic zone

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Concentration of global military power

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Military-Economic Entanglements

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Military Core and World-Economic Rank

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Semiperipheral and Peripheral Cooperation

ØALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America)

  • Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Grenada, Nicaragua, St. Kitts and Nevis, St.

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)

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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

Semiperipheral and Peripheral Cooperation

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Commodified Citizenship in Dominica

Source: Data collected by the author for the period 1990-2015

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Tianxia

“all under heaven”

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

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End of Hegemony

ØHegemony making ØThe consent of different subordinate groups that allow themselves to be led by a dominant group is absolutely necessary. ØDeep global divisions

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Enthusiasm

ØForced cooperation ØForced submission

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Further Reading

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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