The Geopolitics of Global Violence in World-Systems Analysis: Relevance and Problems
The article aims to reflect critically on the role of violence and, in particular, of global wars in the analysis of world-systems, turning to other theoretical perspectives, such as structuring and critical geopolitics, to better understand the issue. In this way, we can assert that the struggle fo...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | Ecuador |
| Institution: | Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales |
| Repository: | Revista URVIO |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/4809 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/urvio/article/view/4809 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | análise dos sistemas-mundo critical geopolitics geopolitics global wars structuring violence world-systems analysis análisis de sistemas-mundo estructuración geopolítica geopolítica crítica guerras globales violencia |
| Summary: | The article aims to reflect critically on the role of violence and, in particular, of global wars in the analysis of world-systems, turning to other theoretical perspectives, such as structuring and critical geopolitics, to better understand the issue. In this way, we can assert that the struggle for supremacy is not necessarily a struggle for hegemony, which would inevitably result in periodic world wars as a prelude to the rise of great powers to hegemonic status. Hegemony refers more to the rules and practices that constitute a geopolitical order than to a certain hierarchical ordering of states. There is no general pattern of explanation for all wars: both global power configurations and the interrelationships between the local and the global must be taken into account. |
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