Working Group on Transformation in the World System - Comparative Studies of Development

Recent Activities

• Call for Papers:

  The World System and the “Left Turn” in Latin America/El sistema mundial y la “Vuelta a la Izquierda” en América Latina, Deadline 1 December 2009

• Call for Submissions: EADI Prize for Development Studies 2009
• Papers presented at the 12th General Conference, 24-28 June 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
• The Report about the Workshop of WG “Transformations in the World System – Comparative Studies of Development”, Vienna, September 19-20, 2007
• A short report from the meeting on EU-India Strategic Partnership
  EADI WSE International Workshop on EU-India relations (pdf 9087 Kb)
• Workshop: "Autochthoneity or Development? Asian ‘Tigers’ in the World: Ten Years after the Crisis".
  Call for papers
• Past activities...

About this Working Group

This Working Group would like to take up the agenda theoretically formulated in the ground-breaking work of Hardt and Segri, Empire (Harvard University Press), 2001. Spatial and territorial boundaries have faded and the power locus of the new system is not nation bounded, but transcends national territoria. The boundaries between first, second and third world are blurred. That means that the world system approach has to be redefined. Technological breakthroughs and the prospects of emergence of a new "centre" and -peripheries", the role of new technologies in the configuration of the world systems, the issues of human and social capital and their significance for changes within world structure are some of the topics the Working Group will be dealing with. A workshop and the participation in the next General Conference are planned, as well as the publication of a book.

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