PART 1 The Whole System 13
1 The Deep Structure: Real Capitalism 20
2 Constants, Cycles, and Trends 48
3 Stages of Capitalism or World-system Cycles? 54
4 The World-system since 1945: What has Changed? 70
5 World Culture, Normative lntegration, and Community 88
PART II States and the lnterstatc System 107
6 States and Capitalism 109
7 Geopolitics and Capitalism: One Logic or Two? 131
8 Warfare and World-systems 151
9 The Rise and Decline of Hegemonie Core Powers 166
PART III Zones of the World-system 199
10 Core and Periphery 201
11 Reproduction of the Core/Periphery Hierarchy 228
12 Recent Trends 256
13 World-system Fluctuations 271
PART IV Metatheory and Research Methods 295
14 Theory Construction 297
15 Research Methods 309
16 lmplications 334
