Immanuel Wallerstein

Former President of the International Sociological Association (1994-1998), and chair of the international Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences (1993-1995). Writes in three domains of world-systems analysis: the historical development of the modern world-system; the contemporary crisis of the capitalist world-economy; the structures of knowledge. Books in each of these domains include respectively The Modern World-System (3 vol.); Utopistics, or Historical Choices for the Twenty-first Century; Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms.