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Commentary Wallerstein: "Currency War? Of Course"

Commentary, November, 11 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Currencies are a very particular economic problem. For currencies are the one true win-lose relationship.

Commentary Wallerstein: "Xenophobia All Over the Place?"

Commentary, September, 09 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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The dictionary defines xenophobia as "fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign." It seems to be an endemic plague everywhere in the world. But it infects larger numbers of people only sometimes. This is o...

Commentary Wallerstein: "Contradictions in the Latin American Left"

Commentary, August, 18 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Latin America has been the success story of the world left in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This is true in two senses. The first and most widely-noticed way is that left or left-of-center parties have won a remarkable series of el...

Commentary Wallerstein: "Why McChrystal Did It"

Commentary, July, 04 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine in which he and his staff insulted the civilian leaders of his country. He was fired for insubordination by Pres. Obama. Even his defenders sai...

Commentary Wallerstein: Iran and North Korea Again: The Perils of Brinkmanship

Commentary, June, 04 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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The United States has been clamoring for almost two decades that it is determined to prevent Iran and North Korea from becoming nuclear powers. In-between more urgent issues, the U.S. government regularly reasserts the importance of this objective...

Commentary Wallerstein: The Anatomy of Fear

Commentary, May, 16 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Fear is the most pervasive public emotion in most of the world today. This fear is not irrational, but it doesn't necessarily lead to wise ways of handling the presumed dangers. The way it operates can be clearly perceived in two notable events of...

Commentary Wallerstein: "Is Europe Imploding?"

Commentary, May, 01 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Europe has had its nay-sayers since it started on the long road to unification. There were many who believed it impossible. And there were many who thought it undesirable. Still one has to say that, in the long and sinuous path it has taken since ...

Commentary Wallerstein: Ahmadinejad says Thanks to America

Commentary, April, 16 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Relations between Iran and the United States have been turbulent for almost 60 years now. Before the Second World War, the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, sought to maneuver between the outside demands and pressures of Great Britain, the U.S.S.R....

Commentary Wallerstein: "Ancient Dilemma of the Left: The Case of Brazil"

Commentary, March, 17 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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On the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT, the Workers' Party) in Brazil, the principal independent left newspaper, Brasil de Fato, published interviews with four leading left i...

Commentary Wallerstein: "Greek Mess, Euromess, Western Nations Mess, World Mess?"

Commentary, March, 03 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Everyone is discussing what Fortune magazine is calling the "Greek maelstrom" and everyone is pointing the finger at someone else. Whose fault is it? The Greek government is accused of cheating and allowing Greeks to live beyond their means. The E...

Commentary Wallerstein: "Chaos as an Everyday Thing"

Commentary, February, 17 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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You know you're living in a chaotic situation when (1) the mainstream media are constantly surprised by what is happening; (2) short-term predictions by various pundits go in radically different directions and are stated with many reserves; (3) th...

Commentary Wallerstein: The United States Misreads Brazil's World Policy

Commentary, February, 02 2010 Immanuel Wallerstein
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When the United States first realized circa 1970 that its hegemonic dominance was being threatened by the growing economic (and hence geopolitical) strength of western Europe and Japan, it changed its posture, seeking to prevent western Europe and...

Znet Article Wallerstein: "Obama, Bush, and Latin American Coups"

Znet Article, November, 16 2009 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Something strange is happening in Latin America. The Latin American right forces are poised to do better during the U.S. presidency of Barack Obama than they did during the eight years of George W. Bush. Bush led a far right regime that was totall...

Video Wallerstein: 'Major crisis still ahead, past one was minor'

Video, September, 16 2009 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Senior Research Scholar at Yale University Immanuel Wallerstein believes that the real economic crisis is still up ahead. According to Wallerstein, last years collapse was its minor version.

Znet Article Wallerstein: The Firestorm Ahead

Znet Article, September, 09 2009 Immanuel Wallerstein
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There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the US government nor the US public is prepared. They seem scarcely aware how close it is on the horizon or how ferocious it will be. The US government (and therefore almost inevitabl...

Znet Article Wallerstein: The World Left and the Iranian Elections

Znet Article, August, 05 2009 Immanuel Wallerstein
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The recent elections in Iran, and the subsequent challenges to their legitimacy, have been a matter of enormous internal conflict in Iran, and of seemingly endless debate in the rest of the world -- a debate that threatens to linger for some time ...

Znet Article Wallerstein: The Right Strikes Back!

Znet Article, July, 18 2009 Immanuel Wallerstein
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The presidency of George W. Bush was the moment of the greatest electoral sweep of left-of-center political parties in Latin America in the last two centuries. The presidency of Barack Obama risks being the moment of the revenge of the right in La...

Commentary Wallerstein: "Where Is the World Headed?"

Commentary, May, 08 2009 Immanuel Wallerstein
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As the world heads into the next decade, there are two arenas where we can anticipate great turbulence the geopolitical arena and the world economy, with the relative decline of US geopolitical power, now acknowledged by almost everyone and whic...

Znet Article Wallerstein: Capitalism's Demise?

Znet Article, January, 09 2009 Immanuel Wallerstein
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Analysis of the long-term dynamics of capitalism

Znet Article Wallerstein: Last Call for a Two State Solution

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Immanuel Wallerstein
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The prevailing worldwide view of how to resolve politically the conflict of two nationalisms in Israel/Palestine is the so-called two-state solution - that is, the creation of two states, Israel and Palestine, within the boundaries of the onetime ...

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