Looking Back and Forging Ahead: Thirty Years of Social Network Research on the World-System

Lloyd, Paulette; Mahutga, Matthew C.; Leeuw, Jan de

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“…For instance, both the US and Luxembourg may be core countries, but few would argue that they are equally important in the global system. The use of continuous prominence or centrality measures overcomes this problem (e.g., Lloyd et al, 2009;Mahutga, 2006;Kim, 2010). However, common prominence or centrality measures (degree, betweenness, eigenvalue), like the blockmodels, are network specific and do not allow for easy comparison between networks or over time.…”

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“…The structure of the hierarchical global power system reflects power differences among countries. This is the underlying idea behind the network studies of the worldsystem (Clark, 2010;Clark and Beckfield, 2009;Clark and Mahutga, 2013;Kick and Davis, 2001;Kick, McKinney, McDonald, and Jorgenson, 2011;Lloyd et al, 2009;Mahutga, 2006;Mahutga and Smith, 2011;Nemeth and Smith, 1985;Smith and White, 1992;Snyder and Kick, 1979;Van Rossem, 1996) that assume that more prominent countries are at an advantage compared to those that are less prominent or in the periphery.Network studies conceptualize the world-system in a way that is quite unique and that differs from world-system analysis in some respects (e.g., Clark 2008;Clark and Beckfield 2009;Lloyd et al 2009). Where world-systems analysis focuses on the type of production process in defining countries' position in the IDL and the world-system, SNA defines power and dependency by the patterns of power/dependency relations between countries, thus by partner dependency (Clark 2008;.…”

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“…Network studies conceptualize the world-system in a way that is quite unique and that differs from world-system analysis in some respects (e.g., Clark 2008;Clark and Beckfield 2009;Lloyd et al 2009). Where world-systems analysis focuses on the type of production process in defining countries' position in the IDL and the world-system, SNA defines power and dependency by the patterns of power/dependency relations between countries, thus by partner dependency (Clark 2008;.…”

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“…Most of these studies rely on blockmodel techniques that recover discrete strata with the global system (e.g., Nemeth and Smith, 1985;Smith and White, 1992;Snyder and Kick, 1979). More recently, several studies have started to use continuous measures of prominence, power, or centrality (e.g., Lloyd et al, 2009;Mahutga, 2006). For this paper we employ such a continuous prominence measure calculated on a series of dichotomous networks that capture economic, political, and military dependency relations among countries 1 .…”

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The Rising Powers and Globalization: Structural Change to the Global System Between 1965 and 2005

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This article critically assesses the increasingly prevalent claims of rapidly changing global power relations under influence of the 'rising powers' and 'globalization.' Our main contention is that current analyses of countries' degree of global power (especially for the BRICS) has been dominated by the control over resources approach that, although it gauges power potential, it insufficiently accounts for how this potential is converted into actual global might. By drawing on a unique and extensive dataset comprised of a wide array of political, economic, and military networks for a vast number of countries between 1965 and 2005, we aim to 1) reassess alleged changes in the structure of the world-system since 1965 and 2) analyze whether or not these changes can be attributed to globalization. We pay attention to the trajectories of the BRICS and to the possibly divergent structural evolutions of the political and economic dimensions that constitute the system. Our results show that despite a certain degree of power convergence between countries at the sub-top of the system, divergence continues to take place between the most and least powerful, and stratification is reproduced. Globalization is further shown to exacerbate this trend, though its effect differs on the political and economic dimensions of the system. Though the traditional 'core powers' might have to share their power with newcomer China in the future, this hardly heralds a new age in which the global system of power relations are converging to the extent that stratification is being undermined. KeywordsRecent developments have created the impression that the global power structure is shifting; new countries appear to be rising to prominence in the global system, while the traditional powers are stagnating or even declining. The economic and social transformations in the traditionally dominant Western powers, combined with the rise of the BRICS countries, including the spectacular rise of China, suggest that the era in which Western nations dominated the global system may be coming to an end, and that in the near future these countries may have to share power with these new rising powers (e.g., Cooper and Flemes, 2013;Layne, 2009). Globalization is often identified as the primary cause of this alleged structural change (Friedman, 2005;Zakaria, 2008).Globalization is employed here to denote a transformative process in which countries become more integrated and interdependent in the economic as well as political, social, and cultural subsystems. This process is said to cause countries to increasingly lose autonomy, to become more affected by domestic affairs in other countries, and to be more dependent on their relations with other countries. Scholarly communities and popular opinion contend that global power relations have changed irrevocably under influence of the globalization process and the subsequent rise of a number of non-traditional powers (e.g., Cooper and Flemes, 2013;Friedman, 2005;Zakaria, 2008). Other authorss, by contrast, ma...

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Globalization can be most concretely captured in an investigation of global economic networks. In this essay, we review foundational and cutting‐edge research on global economic networks, including economic ties that result from trade, investment, finance, and remittance relations between corporations and/or citizens from different nations; through flows of people due to migration and global tourism; and via international institutions that govern global economic exchange. We focus on research that examines the determinants and consequences of global economic ties from different theoretical perspectives, such as neoclassical economics, the world‐systems research, global commodity chains, regionalization, and world society perspective. We also review research that maps the structure of the global economy. We end by identifying promising venues for future research.

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Visualizing Globalization

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This essay reviews current approaches to visualizing globalization. We give special attention to relational data‐analytic approaches that implement social network analysis and geographic information systems, and emphasize the social structure of globalization as revealed in cross‐national and city‐to‐city relations. Cross‐national relations include international trade, comemberships in international governmental organization (IGO) and international nongovernmental organization (INGO), and other kinds of cross‐national relations. City‐to‐city relations include air‐passenger flows, transnational corporation (TNC) headquarter–subsidiary relations, among others. We conclude by discussing future directions in visualizing globalization. The analytical frontier in visualizing globalization lies squarely in statistical/model‐based approaches to spatial and social network analysis. While these analytical approaches hold much promise for visualizing globalization, the dearth of geocoded subnational relational data and the complexity inherent to modeling them create significant obstacles.

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Looking Back and Forging Ahead: Thirty Years of Social Network Research on the World-System

Abstract: We review three decades of research linking social network methods with world systems theory. We identify four themes nested within two versions of a general

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The Rising Powers and Globalization: Structural Change to the Global System Between 1965 and 2005

The Rising Powers and Globalization: Structural Change to the Global System Between 1965 and 2005

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