Abstract
The transition from the contemporary world order to the next will not be pretty. We have already had frightening glimpses of it, as the U.S.'s ideological and imperialist aims (rentseeking on a colossal scale) have destabilized the world, provoked its critics, and caused the oppressed of the world to suffer even more. No set of social science papers could better prepare us for the possibilities to come: In these two volumes, the authors approach the analytical dimensions of the past and the present to encourage us to anticipate the constraints on future possibilities in the terms of the world-system (WS) perspective, by far the most comprehensive approach to understanding world history up to the present time. Under the superlative editorship of Wilma A. Dunaway, the chapters in these volumes represent many of the papers that were presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Section of the American Sociological Association, held in April 2001, at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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