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Vol. XII
Number 1
December 2006
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Articles
Peter Turchin, Jonathan M. Adams, & Thomas D. Hall East-West Orientation of Historical Empires and Modern States
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Robert Schon &
Michael L. Galaty
Diachronic Frontiers: Landscape Archaeology in Highland Albania
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Kathleen C. Schwartzman Globalization from a World-System Perspective: A New Phase in the Core–A New Destiny for Brazil and the Semiperiphery?
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Clifford L. Staples Board Interlocks and the Study of the Transnational Capitalist Class
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In a recent synopsis of theories and findings on transnational corporate ties published in this journal, Nollert (2005) argues that while there may be good theoretical reasons to hypothesize the emergence of a Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC), to this point there is relatively little empirical evidence, aside from Sklair’s (2001) work, to support the claim that such a class exists or is forming. However, a few researchers have attempted to apply the study of interlocking directorates to the search for a network of transnational directors who might be in a position to form such a class. Drawing on empirical findings on the world’s largest transnational corporations and banks reported elsewhere (Staples 2007a; Staples 2007b), as well as additional analyses done specifically for this paper, I argue that studies that rely exclusively on transnational corporate interlocks dramatically underestimate the extent of the TCC network because such studies count only transnational connections between corporations and miss transnational connections within corporations—connections that have grown more numerous in recent years as corporate boards have become more multinational, largely as a result of the concentration of global capital. Counting both between and within transnational capitalist connections points to a far greater level of capitalist transnationality than is suggested by focusing exclusively on between corporate connections, as has been done in this work so far. And while the existence of such a network falls well short of convincing proof that a TCC exists, it does show that capitalists from different countries increasingly have opportunities to interact as they work together to run the world’s largest corporations, and it is out of such interactions that we would expect a TCC to emerge.


Manuela Boatcă Semiperipheries in the World-System: Reflecting Eastern European and Latin American Experiences
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Book Reviews
Richard Falk
The Great Terror War
Reviewed by Emanuel Gregory Boussios

Neil Smith
The Endgame of Globalization
Reviewed by John Gulick

Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka
The Decline of the Welfare State: Demography and Globalization
Reviewed by Nicole Wolfe

Noam Chomsky
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Reviewed by Steven Sherman

Jeffrey T. Jackson
The Globalizers: Development Workers in Action
Reviewed by Brian J. Gareau

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