Editors Introduction:
In March 2015, we had the privilege of hosting the 39th Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World-System of the American Sociological Association at the Institute for Latin American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin. The conference addressed the theme of "Global Inequalities: Hegemonic Shifts and Regional Differentiations", drawing attention to how the longue durée shapes contemporary struggles for hegemony. More than 40 researchers from all five continents presented and discussed research on the conference theme.
Selected contributions to the conference are published in four different venues.

Manuela Boatcă/Andrea Komlosy/Hans-Heinrich Nolte (Hg.), Global Inequalities in World-Systems Perspective

Volume 1 is dedicated to Global Inequalities in World-Systems Perspective and reunites the contributions which placed the issue of rising inequalities at the core of their analysis.

Part I: Semiperipheries in the World-System
David A. Smith (Irvine, Cal.), World-System Zones in the 21st. century: Beyond Core and Periphery
Hartmut Elsenhans (Leipzig), World-Systems Analysis and Political Economy
Antonio Gelis-Filho (Sao Paulo), The Semiperipheral Abandonat  and the unmaking of the Capitalist Geoculture

Part II: Global Stratification and the State
Juho Korhonen (Brown), Statehood at the end of the Rainbow? Agonistics of Potentiality in the World-System
Vilna Bashi Treitler (New York), Migration as a Response to Global Inequality
Zenonas Norkus (Vilnius), Long Waves and Changes in the Capitalist World System
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz/Scott Albrecht (Maryland), “Creative Destruction” from a World-Systems Perspectives: Billionaires and the Great Recession of 2008

Part III Developments on and from Europe’s Eastern Periphery
Dariusz Adamczyk (Hannover), 1918 – 1945 – 1989: Political Shifts in Eastern Europe and Three Logics of Catch-up Development in Poland
Tamás Geröcz/András Pinkas (Budapest), Dept-ridden development on Europe’s Eastern  Periphery
Dmitry Ivanov (St. Petersburg), New Configurations of Inequality and Flow-structures of  Glam-Capitalism

Part IV: Immanuel Wallerstein: Prospects for the World Left

Routledge: New York 2018
ISBN 978-1-138-10677-2

Manuela Boatcă/Andrea Komlosy/Hans-Heinrich Nolte (Hg.), Worldregions, Migrations and Identities

Volume 2 is collecting research on World regions, migrations and identities and addresses the consequences of the rise in inequalities worldwide on the movement of people and on processes of identity-building.

Ramon Grosfoguel/Eric Mielants (Berkeley), Racialisation, Immigration and Identity Formation in Europe and the US in the longue durée . The relevance of economic Cycles to understanding present attitudes
Christian Lekon (Lefke, Cyprus), Hadhramaut and its migration in the Indian Ocean Rim, 1863 – 1967: A Case of Periphery-Periphery Relations? (Also a Wallerstein-Giddens Synthesis)
Roberto José Ortiz (Binghamton), Before the Collapse: Latin America and the USSR in the Developmentalist Belle Epoque
Márton Hunyadi (Budapest), Hierarchical positioning of Postcolonial and Postsocialist migrants. The case of Indonesian and Hungarian immigrants to the Netherlands
Luigi Ferrara/Salvatore Villani (Naples), Migration, Economic Inequality and Redistribution: The Italian Case
Stanislav Holubec (Jena), Collective memory and World-System perspective:  Social movements in Central and Eastern Europe
Salvatore Babones (Sydney), From World-Market to World-Empire: The Political Economy of the Third Millenium

Kritik der Geschichtsschreibung 13, Musterschmidt: Gleichen 2016
ISBN 978-3-7881-2034-4 
 
Manuela Boatcă/Andrea Komlosy/Hans-Heinrich Nolte (Hg.), Coloniality of Power and Hegemonic Shifts in the World System

Volume 3 focuses on hegemonic shifts in the world-system, relating rise and decline, as well as attempts to catch up with the historical position of specific regions in the world-system.     

Abigail Perez Aguilera (Arizona State), Epistemic Dominance and Resource Extraction in the Semi-peripheries
Katharina Bodirsky (Ankara), Cosmopolitanism as Coloniality of Power? On Culturalism in EU-European State-Making
Agnes Gagyi (Berlin), “Democracy” as coloniality of power in Eastern Europe: movements for “democracy” in late socialist and contemporary Hungary as transnational Constructs
Klemens Kaps (Vienna), Orientalism as part of the World System’s geoculture in the 18th. Century? Political discourse, geopolitical interests and the cameralist division of Labour in the Habsburg Monarchy (1713 – 1815)
Lindsay Marie Jacobs (Gent), The BRIC phantom: “globalization”, mobility and structural  change to the global power system, 1965 – 2005
Pedro Vieiria/Helton Ricardo Ouriques/Rosangel de Lima Vieria (Sao Paulo), Hegemonic  Decline and economic crisis: Rise of the BRICS?
Emine Tahsin (Istanbul), A comparative study of emerging global powers: Brazil and Turkey
Andrea Komlosy (Vienna): Prospects of decline and hegemonic shift for the “West”
Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland/Tim Lindgren (Westminster College, Utah), Who goes around comes around. From the Coloniality of Power to the Crisis of Civilization

Journal of World-Systems Research 22.2 (2016) online:  http://jwsr.pitt.edu   

Hans-Heinrich Nolte, Religions in World- and Global History. A View from the German-language Discussion

Volume 4 has by further addenda grown too voluminous for the foregoing three collections and has been published seperately. Nolte argues that religious history is underestimated in its importance for World- and Global history. The history of religions is quite often an established sub-discipline within convincing research traditions. In order to reconstruct the past adequately, historians need academically controlled data about the beliefs of the people they are dealing with. This book offers ten examples from a wide range of religious beliefs which show that developments in religion have far reaching consequences for general history – in the change from Empire to the system of European nations, in establishing social disciplines as part of capitalist societies, in attempts of semi-peripheral states struggling for a place in the European World-System, in defence of Muslim societies on the peripheries and in postcolonial Africa.

Lang: Frankfurt a.M. 2015
ISBN 978-3-631-67065,
In der Reihe „ZOOM“, Online
Kobo Europe SA https://store.kobobooks.com/de-de/ebook/religions-in-world-and-global-history   Apple Inc.