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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
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Fighting wars requires serious support in public opinion
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
