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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: 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: "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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Wallerstein: Capitalism's Demise?
Znet Article, January, 09 2009
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Analysis of the long-term dynamics of capitalism
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 ...
Wallerstein: The World Social Forum: From Defense to Offense
Znet Article, February, 07 2007
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The World Social Forum (WSF) met in Nairobi, Kenya from January ...
Wallerstein: The Tiger at Bay: Scary Times Ahead
Znet Article, September, 04 2006
Immanuel Wallerstein
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When many years ago, some of us said that the decline of United States hegemony in the world-system was inevitable, unstoppable, and already occurring, we were told by most people that we ignored the obvious overwhelming military and economic stre...
Wallerstein: What Can Israel Achieve?
Znet Article, August, 06 2006
Immanuel Wallerstein
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The State of Israel was established in 1948. Ever since, there has been continuous violence between Jews and Arabs in Israel, and between Israel and its neighbors. Sometimes, the violence was low-level and even latent. And every once in a while, t...
Wallerstein: MidEast Cauldron
Znet Article, October, 30 2004
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Whoever is President of the United States, the basic political dilemmas of the ...
Wallerstein: Empire and the Capitalists
Znet Article, May, 21 2003
Immanuel Wallerstein
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No doubt, George W. Bush thinks he is in the forefront of those sustaining the world capitalist system. No doubt, a large part of the world left thinks that too. But do the great capitalists think so? That is far less clear. A major warning signal...
Wallerstein: Bush Bets IT All
Znet Article, March, 21 2003
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Bush Bets IT All
Wallerstein: Iraq War: The Coming Disaster
Znet Article, April, 20 2002
Immanuel Wallerstein
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New Haven -- George W. Bush is a geopolitical incompetent. He has allowed a clique of hawks to induce him to take a position on invading Iraq from which he cannot extract himself, one which will have nothing but negative consequences for the Unite...
