TY - JOUR AU - Wikinson, David PY - 1999/11/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Power Polarity In The Far Eastern World System, 1025 BC?AD 1850: Narrative And 25-Year Interval Data JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 5 IS - 3 SE - General Section DO - 10.5195/jwsr.1999.126 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/126 SP - 500-618 AB - Power polarity in the Far Eastern macro-social system is assessed at twenty five year intervals 1050 BC-AD 1850. Consistent with analysis of Indic system data, there is no support for the theory that the normal world-system power configuration is multipolar, hegemonic, or universal-empire. Instead several different "stability epochs" are discerned. ER -