TERRY BOSWELL is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and an Instructor in the Business School at Emory University.ALBERT BERGESEN is Professor of Sociology at the Univeristy of Arizona.

• Introduction American Prospects in a Period of Hegemonic Decline and Economic Crisis by T. Boswell and A. Bergesen Part I: Continuity and Change in the Structure of the World-System The United States and the World "Crisis" by I. Wallerstein Political Ironies in the World Economy by A.G. Frank Cycles, Trends, or Transformation?: The World System Since 1945 by C. Chase-Dunn Socialism or Barbarism?: The Long-Run Fate of the Capitalist World Economy by W.L. Goldfrank Part II: The Political Economy of Hegemonic Decline Accumulation Innovations in the American Economy: The Affinity for Japanese Solutions to the Current Crisis by T. Boswell World-System Structure, National Development, and the Prospects for a Socialist World Order by E.L. Kick America and the Changing Structure of Hegemonic Production by A. Bergesen, R. Fernandez, and C. Sahoo The United States and the Third World: Institutional Conflicts and Particular Agreements by S. Krasner United States Military Aid and Coups D'Etat in the Third World by E. Muller and E. Zimmerman Part III: The Impact of the World Crisis on American Society The Decline of American Art by A. Bergesen America's Legitimating Myths: Continuity and Crisis by R. Wuthnow Global Changes, World Myths, and the Demise of Cultural Gender: Implications for the United States by F. Ramirez The Impoverishment of U.S. Women and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony by K. Ward

TERRY BOSWELL is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and an Instructor in the Business School at Emory University.ALBERT BERGESEN is Professor of Sociology at the Univeristy of Arizona.

• Introduction American Prospects in a Period of Hegemonic Decline and Economic Crisis by T. Boswell and A. Bergesen Part I: Continuity and Change in the Structure of the World-System The United States and the World "Crisis" by I. Wallerstein Political Ironies in the World Economy by A.G. Frank Cycles, Trends, or Transformation?: The World System Since 1945 by C. Chase-Dunn Socialism or Barbarism?: The Long-Run Fate of the Capitalist World Economy by W.L. Goldfrank Part II: The Political Economy of Hegemonic Decline Accumulation Innovations in the American Economy: The Affinity for Japanese Solutions to the Current Crisis by T. Boswell World-System Structure, National Development, and the Prospects for a Socialist World Order by E.L. Kick America and the Changing Structure of Hegemonic Production by A. Bergesen, R. Fernandez, and C. Sahoo The United States and the Third World: Institutional Conflicts and Particular Agreements by S. Krasner United States Military Aid and Coups D'Etat in the Third World by E. Muller and E. Zimmerman Part III: The Impact of the World Crisis on American Society The Decline of American Art by A. Bergesen America's Legitimating Myths: Continuity and Crisis by R. Wuthnow Global Changes, World Myths, and the Demise of Cultural Gender: Implications for the United States by F. Ramirez The Impoverishment of U.S. Women and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony by K. Ward

TERRY BOSWELL is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and an Instructor in the Business School at Emory University.ALBERT BERGESEN is Professor of Sociology at the Univeristy of Arizona.

• Introduction American Prospects in a Period of Hegemonic Decline and Economic Crisis by T. Boswell and A. Bergesen Part I: Continuity and Change in the Structure of the World-System The United States and the World "Crisis" by I. Wallerstein Political Ironies in the World Economy by A.G. Frank Cycles, Trends, or Transformation?: The World System Since 1945 by C. Chase-Dunn Socialism or Barbarism?: The Long-Run Fate of the Capitalist World Economy by W.L. Goldfrank Part II: The Political Economy of Hegemonic Decline Accumulation Innovations in the American Economy: The Affinity for Japanese Solutions to the Current Crisis by T. Boswell World-System Structure, National Development, and the Prospects for a Socialist World Order by E.L. Kick America and the Changing Structure of Hegemonic Production by A. Bergesen, R. Fernandez, and C. Sahoo The United States and the Third World: Institutional Conflicts and Particular Agreements by S. Krasner United States Military Aid and Coups D'Etat in the Third World by E. Muller and E. Zimmerman Part III: The Impact of the World Crisis on American Society The Decline of American Art by A. Bergesen America's Legitimating Myths: Continuity and Crisis by R. Wuthnow Global Changes, World Myths, and the Demise of Cultural Gender: Implications for the United States by F. Ramirez The Impoverishment of U.S. Women and the Decline of U.S. Hegemony by K. Ward