Hegemony Unravelling: American Imperial Decline and the Ascent of China

dublin | anti-capitalism | event notice Wednesday June 18, 2008 18:07 by pat c

Economic historian Giovanni Arrighi, author of The Long Twentieth Century and Adam Smith in Beijing, will discuss the economic decline of American empire and the Rise of Asia.

8 pm, National Gallery of Ireland (entry Merrion Square West entrance).

Arrighi is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and, with Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the leading international theorists in the field of world systems analysis. /The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times/ (1994) /Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century/ (2007) are widely recognised as classic studies of the history and economics of European and American imperialism.