Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was a sociologist, historian, and writer who studied social change through economic and political relations across borders. The Modern World-system traces how labor, power, and unequal exchange became organized across regions. Unthinking Social Science The Limits of Nineteenth-century Paradigms turns the critique toward the disciplines, asking how inherited categories conceal the connected system they claim to explain.

Geopolitics and Geoculture Essays on the Changing World-System examines the political and cultural languages through which global power is maintained and disputed. Uncertain Worlds World-systems Analysis in Changing Times brings the method into periods when established structures no longer offer stable expectations, while Overcoming Global Inequalities focuses on possible responses. Together, these books connect historical depth with a challenge to the categories used by social inquiry.