Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, “Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System” (Reviewed By William I. Robinson)

John C. Cross, “Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City” (Reviewed By Marina Karides)

Thomas D. Hall (Editor), “A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology” (Reviewed By Thomas R. Shannon)

Alex Inkeles, “One World Emerging? Convergence and Divergence in Industrial Societies” (Reviewed By Robin Thomas Pettitt)

William R. Thompson (Editor), “Great Power Rivalries” (Reviewed By Robert A. Denemark)

Barry Wellman (Editor), “Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities” (Reviewed By Patricia Landolt)