The Politics of the World-Economy: The States, the Movements, and the Civilizations.

Acknowledgments 1. World networks and the politics of the world-economy 2. Patterns and prospectives of the capitalist world-economy Part I. The States and the Interstate System: 3. The states in the institutional vortex of the capitalist world-economy 4. The three instances of hegemony in the history of the capitalist world-economy 5. The withering away of the states 6. Friends as foes 7. The USA in the world today 8. The world-economy and the state-structures in peripheral and dependent countries (the so-called Third World) 9. Socialist states: mercantilist strategies and revolutionary objectives Part II. Antisystemic Movements: 10. The future of the world-economy 11. Eurocommunism: its roots in European working-class history 12. Nationalism and the world transition to socialism: is there a crisis? 13. Revolutionary movements in the era of US hegemony and after Part III. The Civilizational Project: 14. The quality of life in different social systems: the model and the reality 15. Civilizations and modes of production: conflicts and convergences 16. The dialectics of civilizations in the modern world-system 17. The development of the concept of development Index.