Announcing the Summer/Autumn JWSR 2025 Issue

The JWSR editorial team is pleased to announce the publication of the Summer/Autumn 2025 issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research. 

This issue provides a special opportunity to say farewell to the inimitable Dale W. Tomich in the form of the first of a two-part interview between Dale and his student and friend Juan Giusti-Cordero. Dale’s brilliant interpretation of "second slavery" and work on relational and incorporated comparison profoundly influenced the study of capitalism and slavery—his masterpiece, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), received one of the first PEWS book awards in 1991. The issue also features a diverse array of research articles, from topics such as the role of new media in the digital age in dismantling the West’s propaganda machine to the ties between economy and ecology through the lens of species impact.

The Journal of World-Systems Research is available free online at jwsr.pitt.edu It is the official journal of the American Sociological Association’s section on Political Economy of the World-System and one of the most established scholarly, peer-reviewed, open access journals. Please help us spread the word about the issue and forward the details below to friends and colleagues.

 

Journal of World-Systems Research
Volume 31 Number 2
Summer/Fall 2025

Table of Contents

i       Grubačić | Editors’ Introduction

ARTICLES

Wilkin | (Geo)culture and the West’s War Against Gaza

Liu and Wilson | Border Disputes in the Global Periphery amid Declining U.S. Hegemonic Influence: The Case of Guyana and Venezuela

Anees, Hassan, and Ayman | The Impact of Economic Dependence on Economic Growth in Egypt: An Empirical Analysis (1977–2021)

Chian | Wallerstein after ’68: Marxism and the Making of The Modern World-System

Gunderson, Charles, and Fyock | Global Capital and Amphibian Extinctions: Ecologically Unequal Exchange with Colonial and Neocolonial Sri Lanka

Sarieddine | Phnom Penh Retrograde?: Assessing Chinese Economic Hegemony in Cambodia

INTERVIEWS

Giusti-Cordero | Dale Tomich (1946–2024)…in His Own Words (Part I): Interviews February–June 2025 by Juan Giusti-Cordero