The Form and Operation of the World System: A Multiple-Network Analysis of Transnational Linkages, 1960-65.

Autor/in	Kick, Edward L.
Titel	The Form and Operation of the World System: A Multiple-Network Analysis of Transnational Linkages, 1960-65.
Quelle	(1984), (41 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Capitalism; Developed Nations; Developing Nations; Economics; Global Approach; International Relations; Social Science Research; Social Theories; Socialism; Systems Approach; World Problems + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kapitalismus; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Globales Denken; Internationale Beziehungen; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Gesellschaftstheorie; Sozialismus; Systemischer Ansatz; Weltproblem
Abstract	Findings from a new blockmodel (multiple-network) analysis of transnational economic and non-economic linkages are presented. World-system studies have frequently relied upon transnational economic relations as the sole or primary delimiter of world-system structure, but the basic assumption of this study is that economic and non-economic links better reveal the form and operation of the world system. In this blockmodel analysis of world-system structure, network data for 129 nations are utilized and international interactions encompassing eight forms of economic, political, military, sociocultural, and technical linkages are examined. Countries are then "partitioned" into 11 blocks. Results are compared with those provided by Snyder and Kick (1979), in which 118 countries were partitioned into 10 blocks. Findings show that transnational tie patterns across economic and non-economic networks resemble one another rather closely, indicating that power-dependence relations are relatively uniform across different international interactions, and that power-dependence ties are mutually supportive. Results of the multiple-network analysis reveal two distinct semiperipheries, one socialist and one capitalist; the findings reveal core socialist and capitalist semiperipheral social systems, as well as socialist-capitalist contention for dominance over the larger world system. The implications of these findings for social change of the systems are discussed, as well as recommendations for further research. (Author/IS)
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