Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System

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Introduction. Borderlines in Time of Globalization: New Theoretical Perspective G. Preyer, M. Boes. I: Reconceptionalizations of the Global: Borderlines in the World-System. The Continual Reconstruction of Multiple Modern Civilizations and Collective Identities S.H. Eisenstadt. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective C.C. Dunn. World-Systems, Frontiers, and Ethnogenesis: Incorporation and Resistance to State Expansion T.D. Hall. After History? The Last Frontier of Historical Capitalism R.E. Lee. II: Defining Borderlines in the World-System: The Emergence of New Memberships. Globalization and the Evolution of Membership G. Preyer. Enacting Globalization - Transnational Networks and the Deterritorialisation of Social Relationship B. Axford. Immigration and the Open Society: The Normative Patterns of Membership in the Nation State M. Boes. A Transformation of National Identity? Refugees and German Society after World War II U. Gerhardt, B. Hohenester. III: The Global and the Local: The Collapse and Reconstruction of Borderlines. The Collapse of the Moral Boundaries of Peripherial Countries C. Davies, E. Trivizas. Beyond `East' and `West'. On the European and Global Dimensions of the Fall of Communism F.P. Wagner. Socioeconomic Restructurings of the Local Settings in the Era of Globalization F. Entrena. Index. Contributors.