Chaotic Uncertainty: Reflections on Islam The Middle East and The World System

by Immanuel Wallerstein, Ozlem Madi;Cengiz Sisman (Editor)

Immanuel Wallerstein is one of the most important and yet controversial thinkers and activists of our time, writing on a wide range of topics from global economics and international politics. To Wallerstein, capitalist world-system, which was created over the last five hundred years, and whose main ideology was liberalism, has been going through a deep structural crisis since the 1970s. He maintains that this system will be replaced by other and perhaps better systems in the mid or long run. In his works in last few decades, Wallerstein has devoted almost all of his energy and time analyzing and explaining how the capitalist system could be replaced by a better system. In that regards, he considers Islamism as one of the most important dissenting movements in the World-System, but necessarily as a powerful force to replace it. This volume contains his articles and commentaries on Islam, the Middle East and the World-System, all of which were published since the Arab Spring.

288 pages, Hardcover

Published May 15, 2018

About the author

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was a scholar of politics, sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst. His bimonthly commentaries on world affairs were syndicated.

Reviews

[Bailey Cook · Rating 3 out of 5]

Brilliant passages on the history of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey and Syria but a considerable amount of chapters is just the authors private mumblings from 10 years ago.

[Haluk Ermiş · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume contains Wallerstein’s articles and commentaries on Islam, the Middle East and the World-System, all of which were published since the “Arab Spring”.

[beege03 · Rating 4 out of 5]

perfecto para entender el mundo en el que estamos