Global Crises and the Challenges of the 21st Century

Thomas Reifer, University of California, Riverside, is a coauthor with Immanuel Wallerstein et. al of The Age of Transition (Zed Books, 1996). Dr. Reifer studies large-scale, long-term social change, focusing on the political economy of organized violence in the American Century.

Chapter 1 'œCrisis, What Crisis?', Immanuel Wallerstein; Chapter 2 Long-Term World-Systemic Crises, W. L. Goldfrank; Chapter 3 Belated Decolonization, Gershon Shafir; Chapter 4 Democratizing Global Governance, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Bruce Lerro; Chapter 5 Violence, the Sacred, and the Global System, Michelle M. Jacob; Chapter 6 Farm Labor and the Catholic Church in California, Alberto López Pulido; Chapter 7 Treadmills, Rifts, and Environmental Degradation, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Brett Clark; Chapter 8 Islam, Immigration, Laïcité, and Leitkultur, Bahar Davary; Chapter 9 A Critical View of Wallerstein's Utopistics from Dussel's Transmodernity, Ramon Grosfoguel; Chapter 10 The Quasi-Europes, Manuela Boatcă; Chapter 11 Neither Global nor National, Saskia Sassen; Chapter 12 The Global Street Comes to Wall Street, Saskia Sassen;