Global State Formation For Whom Christopher ChaseDunn Institute

Global State Formation: For Whom? Christopher Chase-Dunn Institute for Research on World-Systems University of California, Riverside

Outline of the Talk: State Formation and the evolution of human institutions What is a polity? : bands, tribes, chiefdoms, states, empires What is a state? : A “sovereign” organization with specialized institutions of regional control (bureaucracies and armies). The growth of polities: rise and fall and occasional upward jumps. Hierarchies and Networks: pulsation and rise and fall Complex Chiefdoms, Early states, Empire formation Expansion of the Central World-System Semiperipheral capitalist city-states The Rise of the West Modern nation-states and capitalism Waves of economic and political globalization The rise and fall of modern hegemonic core powers: the Dutch in the 17 th century, the British in the 19 th century, the U. S. in the 20 th century Reproduction of the Interstate System and the long rise of a global state Global Governance: The Concert of Europe; The League of Nations; The United Nations

Global Class Formation The transnational capitalist class in the 19 th and the 20 th centuries Transnationalization of workers and citizens The Globalization Project and the formation of capitalist transnational state Reconfiguration of national states and international institutions for the purposes of neoliberalism Global Keynesianism: the Tobin Tax, etc. the World Economic Forum Globalization from below: the World Social Forum Waves of Globalization and Globalization Backlash Globalization from Below vs. Anti-globalization Anti-Systemic Transnational Movements: The Labor Movement; The Women’s Movement; Global Indigenism; The Environmental Movement Semiperipheral Democratic Socialist Regimes Sticky Wickets: Hegemonic Rivalry, Global Inequality, Ecocatastrophe

Rise and Fall of large powerful polities with intermittent upsweeps

Iterative Causes of City and State Growth

State and Market Formation

Semiperipheral Development Semiperipheral Regions are Most Often the Sites of Innovations in New Institutions and Technologies that lead to Upward Mobility and/or Transform the Logic of Social Change Types of Semiperipheral Societies: Semiperipheral Marcher Chiefdoms: Patrick Kirch Semiperipheral Marcher States Semperipheral Capitalist City States Semiperipheral World Regions: Europe Modern Hegemons: Dutch, British, U. S.

Rise of the Central System

East/West Pulsations and Merger 4000 Central PGN BCE East Asian PGN Time Central PMN Mongol Empire East Asian PMN 2000 CE West East

Resistance, World Revolutions and the Historical Development of World Orders Waves of Colonization and Decolonization since the 16 th century David P. Henige, Colonial Governors

Core-Wide Empire vs. Modern Hegemony

US Hegemonic Decline

Globalization (two kinds) • The Globalization Project (market magic as political ideology) • Structural Globalization (economic and political transcontinental integration) • Waves of Structural Globalization: – Nineteenth Century – Twentieth Century Trade Globalization Since 1830

Global Class Formation n. Transnationalization of Classes n. The Global Capitalist Class n. Transnationalization of workers and peasants n. Transnational Social Movements

Global Class Formation Transnational Segment Big Capitalists and Political Elites Professionals and Managers Transnational Segment World Classes Workers and Peasants Transnational Segment

World Regimes and World Revolutions • World Regimes are hegemonic normative, legal and economic institutions that are the outcome of local and global struggles (geoculture) • The World Revolutions of the 19 th, 20 th and 21 st centuries: – 1848 - labor, socialism, religious nationalism, utopian communism – 1917 soviets and state communism – 1968 the new social movements – ? ? Deglobalization and globalization from below

Globalization from Below and Deglobalization Counter-hegemonic transnational movements: The Labor Movement The Women’s Movement Global Indigenes The Environmental Movement Religious Nationalism Anarchism Local Sustainable Development Environmental Protest in Korea

Forming alliances: Transnational coalitions and world citizenship The Semiperiphery: (Mexico, India, Korea, Indonesia, Brazil, China) as fertile space for transformational action

Sticky Wicket 1: Inequality and Chaos: Increasing Global Inequalities Vulnerability of Complex Systems Global Justice and Productivity of Labor

Sticky Wicket 2: • Environmental Disaster The Biotech Century Global Warming • Global Impasse: the limits of the biosphere and the American model of development

Sticky Wicket 3: Hegemonic Rivalry and Core Wars of the Future

On to a Democratic and Collectively Rational Global Commonwealth