Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the Twenty- first Century -- RESTRUCTURING WORLD POWER -- Globalizing Capital and Political Agency in the Twenty- first Century -- Stateness and System in the Global Structure of Trade: A Network Approach to Assessing Nation Status -- Predictions of Geopolitical Theory and the Modern World- System -- REDEFINING WORLD CULTURE -- Why Must There Be a Last Cycle? The Prognosis for the World Capitalist System and a Prescription for Its Diagnosis -- Mr. X? Doctrine X? A Modest Proposal for Thinking about the New Geopolitics -- Radicalism, Resistance, and Cultural Lags: A Commentary on Benjamin Barber's Jihad vs. McWorld -- Formations of Globality and Radical Politics -- FROM NATIONAL STATES TO REGIONAL NETWORKS? -- The Rhineland, European Union, and Regionalism in the World Economy -- Slipping into Something More Comfortable: Argentine- Brazilian Nuclear Integration and the Origins of the MERCOSUR -- Mutual Benefit? African Elites and French African Policy -- The Geoeconomic Reconfiguration of the Semiperiphery: The Asian- Pacific Transborder Subregions in the World- System -- The Process and the Prospects of Soviet Collapse: Bankruptcy, Segmentation, Involution -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.