I don't get this book. He seems to give a pretty good history of Western politics but I don't understand how this is presenting a novel theory.
>>25305572Its literally the book(s) that brought together Braudels long duree, Marxist analyst, and dependency theory. I barely need anything else to understand how the world works.
>>25305572>I don't understand how this is presenting a novel theory.Realist and liberal theory treats each state as an isolated actor that only makes decisions based on short-term gain or loss. World-Systems argues that a state in the periphery cannot and will not act in the same manner, or for the same motivations, as a state in the imperial core.
>>25305572I have this. I'm thinking of reading it before taking an IR theory class in school
