TY - JOUR AU - Turner, Jonathan H. PY - 2017/08/11 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Principles of Inter-Societal Dynamics JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 23 IS - 2 SE - Special Feature: Contributions of Christopher Chase-Dunn DO - 10.5195/jwsr.2017.720 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/720 SP - 649-677 AB - <p>World-system dynamics are re-conceptualized as inter-societal systems with some de-emphasis on the notions of core, periphery, and semi-periphery.  This tri-part division has been useful in forcing sociology to rethink macro-level sociological analysis and in establishing the importance of considering inter-societal systems as a fundamental unit of human social organization, but this Weberian-like ideal type is constraining theoretical analysis. Moreover, core, periphery, and semi-periphery are not consistently found across a broad range of inter-societal systems, beginning with those among hunting and gathering societies and moving to the current capitalist inter-societal system. Furthermore, the often-implied view that the current geo-economic global system has replaced geo-political systems is overdrawn because geo-economics and geo-politics constantly intersect and interact in all inter-societal systems. Some illustrative general models are drawn for geo-political systems, while abstract principles for geo-political and geo-economic inter-societal relations are articulated.  The goal of the paper, then, is to move current world-system analysis back, in a sense, to earlier conceptualizations of geo-economics and geo-politics and empire formations that have always existed among human populations and that now drive the dynamics of the globe today. In this analysis, the seminal work of Christopher Chase-Dunn is referenced as a source of inspiration for this small, but important, shift in analysis and modes of theorizing.</p><p> </p> ER -