Global State Formation: For Whom?

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Global State Formation For Whom?
Christopher Chase-Dunn Institute for Research on
World-Systems University of California, Riverside
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Outline of the Talk

• State Formation and the evolution of human
  institutions
• What is a polity? bands, tribes, chiefdoms,
  states, empires
• What is a state? A sovereign organization with
  specialized institutions of regional control
• (bureaucracies and armies).
• The growth of polities rise and fall and
  occasional upward jumps.
• Hierarchies and Networks pulsation and rise and
  fall
• Complex Chiefdoms, Early states, Empire formation
• Expansion of the Central World-System
• Semiperipheral capitalist city-states
• The Rise of the West
• Modern nation-states and capitalism
• Waves of economic and political globalization
• The rise and fall of modern hegemonic core
  powers the Dutch in the 17th century, the
  British in the 19th century, the U.S. in the 20th
  century
• Reproduction of the Interstate System and the
  long rise of a global state
• Global Governance The Concert of Europe The
  League of Nations
• The United Nations

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Global Class Formation The transnational
capitalist class in the 19th and the 20th
centuries Transnationalization of workers and
citizens The Globalization Project and the
formation of capitalist transnational
state Reconfiguration of national states and
international institutions for the purposes of
neoliberalism Global Keynesianism the Tobin Tax,
etc. the World Economic Forum Globalization from
below the World Social Forum Waves of
Globalization and Globalization
Backlash Globalization from Below vs.
Anti-globalization Anti-Systemic Transnational
Movements The Labor Movement The Womens
Movement Global Indigenism The Environmental
Movement Semiperipheral Democratic Socialist
Regimes Sticky Wickets Hegemonic Rivalry, Global
Inequality, Ecocatastrophe Toward Global
Democracy
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Rise and Fall of large powerful polities with
intermittent upsweeps
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Iterative Causes of City and State Growth
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State and Market Formation
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Semiperipheral Development
Semiperipheral Regions are Most Often the Sites
of Innovations in New Institutions and
Technologies that lead to Upward Mobility and/or
Transform the Logic of Social Change Types of
Semiperipheral Societies Semiperipheral Marcher
Chiefdoms Patrick Kirch Semiperipheral Marcher
States Semperipheral Capitalist City
States Semiperipheral World Regions
Europe Modern Hegemons Dutch, British, U.S.
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Rise of the Central System
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East/West Pulsations and Merger
Central PGN
4000 BCE
Time
East Asian PGN
Central PMN
Mongol Empire
East Asian PMN
2000 CE
West
East
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Resistance, World Revolutions and the Historical
Development of World Orders

• Waves of Colonization and Decolonization since
  the 16th century

David P. Henige, Colonial Governors
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Core-Wide Empire vs. Modern Hegemony
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US Hegemonic Decline
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Globalization (two kinds)

• The Globalization Project (market magic as
  political ideology) 
• Structural Globalization (economic and political
  transcontinental integration)
• Waves of Structural Globalization
• Nineteenth Century
• Twentieth Century

Trade Globalization Since 1830
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Global Class Formation

• Transnationalization of Classes
• The Global Capitalist Class
• Transnationalization of workers and peasants
• Transnational Social Movements

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Global Class Formation
Transnational Segment
Big Capitalists and Political Elites
Transnational Segment
Professionals and Managers
World Classes
Transnational Segment
Workers and Peasants
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World Regimes and World Revolutions

• World Regimes are hegemonic normative, legal and
  economic institutions that are the outcome of
  local and global struggles (geoculture)
• The World Revolutions of the 19th, 20th and 21st
  centuries
• 1848- labor, socialism, religious nationalism,
  utopian communism
• 1917 soviets and state communism
• 1968 the new social movements
• ???? Deglobalization and globalization from below

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Globalization from Below and DeglobalizationCoun
ter-hegemonic transnational movementsThe Labor
MovementThe Womens MovementGlobal
IndigenesThe Environmental MovementReligious
NationalismAnarchismLocal Sustainable
Development
Environmental Protest in Korea
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Forming alliancesTransnational coalitionsand
world citizenshipThe Semiperiphery (Mexico,
India, Korea, Indonesia, Brazil, China) as
fertile space for transformational action
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Sticky Wicket 1
Inequality and Chaos Increasing Global
Inequalities Vulnerability of Complex
Systems Global Justice and Productivity of Labor
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Sticky Wicket 2

• Environmental Disaster
• The Biotech Century
• Global Warming
• Global Impasse the limits of the biosphere and
  the American model of development

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Sticky Wicket 3

• Hegemonic Rivalry and Core Wars of the Future

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On to a Democratic and Collectively Rational
Global Commonwealth