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Kirk Lawrence

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7

Publications

249

Citations

7

H-Index

2008

Active since

Affiliations

University of California, Riverside(Current)

Kirk Lawrence is an author at University of California, Riverside specializing in social sciences, geopolitics, and political science.

Top concepts

Social SciencesGeopoliticsPoliticsInternational RelationsGeographyPolitical GeographySocial ChangeWorld PoliticsPolitical PowerPolitical Behavior

Publications per year

2008–2015

7

Publications

7

Polity scale shifts in world-systems since the Bronze Age: A comparative inventory of upsweeps and collapses

Hiroko Inoue, Alexis Álvarez, Kirk Lawrence et al. · International Journal of Comparative Sociology · 2012 · 70 citations

Regime Analysis, Political Behavior, Social Change +21

Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages

Christopher Chase‐Dunn, Kirk Lawrence · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2008 · 66 citations

Transnational History, Settler Colonialism, Colonialism +7

From Chiefdom to State: Toward an Integrative Theory of the Evolution of Polity

Seth Abrutyn, Kirk Lawrence · Sociological Perspectives · 2010 · 38 citations · Full text

Regime Analysis, Political Theory, Critical Thresholds +18

The Thermodynamics of Unequal Exchange

Kirk Lawrence · International Journal of Comparative Sociology · 2009 · 28 citations

Engineering, Unequal Exchange, Energy Markets +23

Cycles of Rise and Fall, Upsweeps and Collapses: Changes in the scale of settlements and polities since the Bronze Age

Christopher Chase‐Dunn, Richard Niemeyer, Alexis Álvarez et al. · 2010 · 18 citations

Regime Analysis, Historical Geography, Lesser Centralization +22

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