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Wallerstein: Blowback, or Impossible Dilemmas of Declining Powers
Znet Article, June, 19 2012
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Obama hasn't given up on one impossible dream - restoring the United States to a position of unquestioned hegemony
Wallerstein: "The Syrian Impasse"
Znet Article, February, 17 2012
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The bottom line is that, however loud the rhetoric and however ugly the civil war, no one really, really wants Assad to go. So, in all probability, he will stay
Wallerstein: The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social Justice Movement
Znet Article, December, 06 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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We have to think of the world struggle as a long race, in which the runners have to use their energy wisely
Wallerstein: The Fantastic Success of Occupy Wall Street
Znet Article, October, 19 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The Occupy Wall Street movement – for now it is a movement – is the most important political happening in the United States since the uprisings in 1968
Wallerstein: "How Would al-Qaeda Assess Its Achievements?"
Commentary, October, 04 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The United States is clearly weaker geopolitically today than in 2001
Wallerstein: "The Social-Democratic Illusion"
Commentary, September, 20 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Social-democracy promised an ever-better future for future generations
Wallerstein: The U.S.-Pakistan Alliance: Ever More Shaky
Commentary, July, 16 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The weakness of the United States is that it doesn't have any real options in Pakistan
Wallerstein: The Political Quandary of Barack Obama
Commentary, June, 03 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Barack Obama is by conviction and by personality the quintessential centrist
Wallerstein: "War-weariness in the United States?
Commentary, May, 03 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
Wallerstein's ZSpace page
Fighting wars requires serious support in public opinion
Wallerstein: The World System After 1945
Znet Article, May, 01 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Keynote address at Points of Connection, The Vienna L'Internationale Conference, 27 October 2010
Wallerstein: "The Middle East: Allies in Disarray"
Commentary, April, 20 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Why the United States has created such an incredibly close alliance with Israel is a matter of much debate.
Wallerstein: "The Great Libyan Distraction"
Commentary, April, 01 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The entire Libyan conflict is neither about humanitarian intervention nor about the immediate supply of world oil.
Wallerstein: Libya and the World Left
Commentary, March, 16 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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There is so much hypocrisy and so much confused analysis about what is going on in Libya that one hardly knows where to begin.
Wallerstein: "The Wind of Change - in the Arab World and Beyond"
Commentary, March, 01 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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In the middle of the French Revolution, Danton counseled "de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace." ("Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.")
Wallerstein: "The World Social Forum, Egypt, and Transformation"
Commentary, February, 16 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The World Social Forum (WSF) is alive and well.
Wallerstein: "The Second Arab Revolt: Winners and Losers"
Commentary, February, 03 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The Arab Revolt of 1916 was led by Sharif Hussein bin Ali for Arab independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Wallerstein: "Self-Determination of Peoples? Which Self?”
Commentary, January, 22 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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One of the guiding mantras of the twentieth century was the self-determination of peoples, of nations.
Wallerstein: “Mr. Putin Makes an Audacious Offer"
Commentary, December, 30 2010
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia visited Germany in the end of November. Before arriving there, he published an op-ed in the German newspaper, SüddeutscheZeitung, which commented on this interview under the headline, "Putin hugs Europe."
Wallerstein: "Shall We Discuss Poverty?"
Commentary, December, 15 2010
Immanuel Wallerstein
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For the fifteen to twenty years that the Washington Consensus dominated the discourse in the world-system, poverty was a taboo word, even as it was increasing by leaps and bounds.
Wallerstein: "Brazilian and U.S. Elections: Opposite Outcomes"
Commentary, November, 18 2010
Immanuel Wallerstein
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On October 31, President Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva won a sweeping victory in the Brazilian elections. On November 2, President Barack Obama was soundly defeated in the U.S. elections.
