The end of our time? Crisis of the world -system

Immanuel Wallerstein is an American geopolitician, one of the founders of the world-system theory. According to Wallerstein, the world -system is a space that covers many political and cultural units, but at the same time is a single organism. Assessing the current state of the world -system, he claimed that it is in a deep crisis, the way out of which could be unexpected. Andre Frank is a German political scientist, is also one of the founders of the world-system analysis. Frank believed that the world system at all times had a tendency to the change of hegemony. In this regard, her crises are inevitable and entail significant changes in the world. The book presents the main works of I. Wallerstein and A. Frank on this topic