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rise, fall and upward sweeps: the emergence of a global state * Christopher Chase-Dunn Institute for Research on World-Systems and Department of Sociology, University of California, Riverside *Thanks to E. N. Anderson and Peter Turchin for their contributions to ideas developed below.

This is for an interactive teleconference on Human Sciences and Complexity, a 4-campus interdisciplinary project that includes scholars from UC-Irvine, UCLA, UC-San Diego and UCR. It is based on research proposal that is being supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s program on Human Social Dynamics. That proposal is available at The time of the interactive teleconference is from 2 to 3:05 on Friday, October 14,and the UCR location will be in Olmsted An earlier version of this lecture presented at the University of Victoria is available at Human Sciences and Complexity

The comparative world-systems perspective Small, medium and large world-systems Waves of network expansion and contraction: rise of the Central System Hierarchy Formation. The iteration Model Rise and fall and upward sweeps Semiperipheral marcher states Semiperipheral capitalist city states Modeling rise and fall and upward sweeps: two systemic levels: state and world-system From core-wide empires to modern hegemons Waves of Colonization and Decolonization Global State Formation Overall outline of the talk

Systems of Societies as the Unit of Analysis for explaining Cultural evolution Core/Periphery Hierarchies Semiperipheral Development World-Systems: Small, Medium and Large The comparative world-systems perspective

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.

Bounding premodern world-systems: Important interaction networks Waves of network expansion and contraction (pulsation and eventual globalization) Expansion of the central system and incorporation of other regional systems Polities: bands, tribes, chiefdoms, states, empires

Rise of the Central System

Rise and Fall of large powerful polities with intermittent upsweeps

Iterative Causes of City and State Growth

Core-Wide Empire vs. Modern Hegemony

Resistance and global polity formation Waves of Colonization and Decolonization since the 16 th century David P. Henige, Colonial Governors

Global state formation: on to a democratic and collectively rational Global Commonwealth