Christopher Chase-Dunn

Christopher Chase-Dunn is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside. He is the author of Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems (with Thomas D. Hall), The Wintu and Their Neighbors (with Kelly Mann), and The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism (with Terry Boswell). He is the founder and coeditor (with Walter Goldfrank) of the Journal of World-Systems Research. Chase-Dunn is currently doing research on global elite integration in the nineteenth century and on both the growth and decline phases and upward sweeps of empires and future global state formation.