"The rise of populism in the West, the rise of China in the East and the spread of peer-driven social media everywhere are prompting a deep rethinking of how democracy works -- or doesn't. The creation of new classes of winners and losers as a result of globalization and digital capitalism are...

“One of the definite merits of this book is to cleverly mix a theoretical breakthrough with a meticulous historical and empirical account of the transformations of some key Latin American countries. First, it is at the frontier of a research agenda initiated back to the end of the 1970s,...

Despite Westphalian notions of the social contract as an instrument that secures rights and freedoms, the social contract is not a guarantor of rights and freedoms as demonstrated by intellectuals such as Hegel, Marx and Foucault

The accumulating scientific evidence – across many disciplines – regarding human evolution and the complexities and dualities of human nature indicates that the core ideological assumptions of both capitalism and socialism are simplistic and ultimately irreconcilable. A biological approach...

Introduction: On modes of exchange -- Mini world systems -- The sedentary revolution -- The gift and magic -- World-empire -- The state -- World money -- World empires -- Universal religions -- The modern world system -- The modern state -- Industrial capital -- Nation -- Associationism -- The...