Timestamps

3:40: Definition and Key Concepts

11:52 - Genealogy

22:00 - Key Thinkers

48:13: WS Theorists before WST

59:14 Conclusion

References/Recommended Readings

Rather than World Systems Analysis: An Introduction, read this essay:

Immanuel Wallerstein: The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1974):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FpqIxQnQwqPYtGcK1H391HV0PGAt5Mxh/view?usp=sharing

Walter Rodney - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://monoskop.org/images/8/81/Rodney_Walter_How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa_rev_ed_1981.pdf

Eric Williams - Capitalism and Slavery: https://glc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/capatlism_and_slavery.pdf

Immanuel Wallerstein - The Modern World System (vol. 1): https://dl1.cuni.cz/pluginfile.php/495082/mod_resource/content/1/Wallerstein-Modern%20World-System%20I.pdf

Samir Amin - Unequal Development (1976): https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/unequal_development_by_samir_amin.pdf

Samir Amin - The Future of Maoism (1980):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SwS6rQ_bZacf7BE3ZEl9aXC-_4qN9gkC/view?usp=sharing

Samir Amin - A Note on the Concept of Delinking: (1987) https://open.metu.edu.tr/bitstream/handle/11511/110904/Samir%20AM%C4%B0N%201984-1-2.pdf

Giovanni Arrighi - The Long Twentieth Century: https://dokumen.pub/the-long-twentieth-century-9781844673049.html

Andre Gunder Frank - "The Development of Underdevelopment": http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/POLS/2100/Lehman/pols2100devun.pdf

George Jackson - Blood in my Eye: https://files.libcom.org/files/2022-08/BloodInMyEye_text_0.pdf