ABSTRACT
Recent decades have seen an expansion of researchers’ interests in the world system. According to Chase-Dunn and Hall (1997: 11-26), world-system theories now enjoy a situation in which “a hundred flowers bloom.” The two authors propose that it is beneficial to compare and examine the explanatory potential of these theoretical frameworks by working on:
1 the definition of world systems; 2 their time and space boundaries; and 3 their systemic logic.
