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Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009) was one of the world’s leading theorists of world capitalism, imperialism, and anti-systemic movements. With Immanuel Wallerstein and Terence Hopkins, he played a major role in the development of world-systems analysis, with its fecund synthesis of Marxism, Third- World radicalism, and critical social science, from Annales to the German historical school. World-systems analysis focused on the emergence of the capitalist world-economy structured into a tripartite zonal hierarchy divided into: rich and powerful core states; poor and weak peripheral states; and states of intermediate power and wealth in the semi-peripheral zone. From his early work on Southern Africa, to his iconoclastic Geometry of Imperialism: The Limits of Hobson’s Paradigm (1983), to his trilogy on capitalism and world hegemony seen over the longue durée, Arrighi established himself as...
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Reifer, T. (2020). World-Systems Analysis and Giovanni Arrighi. In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_286-1
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