Arrighi's point is not about Braudel's disapproval of Wallerstein. The point he wants to make is about the "emergence of world system as a research program" in the Fernand Braudel Center and PEWS section of ASA-- in other words, the academic and institutional underpinnings of the world system theory started by Wallerstein. That is what Arrighi means below as a world system theorist. btw, Braudel disagreed with Wallerstein _as much as_ Wallerstein disagreed with Braudel. Braudel was not a Marxist to begin with. Wallerstein went beyond Braudel, and orthodox marxist theory, with a new theory of modern capitalism as a "structurally differentiated" world system whose parts related to each other through a hierarchy chain: core-semiperiphery-periphery model as opposed to nation-state centric model. Such a systemic outlook was significantly lacking in previous acccounts. Mine _Giovanni Arrighi_ wrote in his article: >> 1. The World-System Perspective and Wallerstein's Theory of the > >Capitalist World-Economy. > > >As Harriet Friedmann (1996: 321) has pointed out, the emergence of the > >world-system perspective as research program is inseparable from the > >influence of Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World System, Vol.I > >(henceforth TMWS) and from the > >new institutions formed in its wake, most notably the PEWS Section of > >the ASA, the journal Review, and the Fernand Braudel Center. Ricardo replied: >Why the Fernand Braudel Center? - the only book by Braudel that can >be placed - and only indirectly - within the WS tradition is Vol 3, The >Perspective of the World, of Civilization and Capitalism. Even in >this volume, one detects that Braudel was not impressed by >Wallerstein's approach to history >volume is quite critical of Wallesrstein >Braudel was too sophisticated a historian to accept the functional >narrowness of a Wallerstein. -- Mine Aysen Doyran PhD Student Department of Political Science SUNY at Albany Nelson A. Rockefeller College 135 Western Ave.; Milne 102 Albany, NY 12222
