Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division and director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside, USA, and founding editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research. His research focuses on the causes of human socio-cultural evolution, global state formation and the democratization of global governance.Hiroko Inoue is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at University of California-Riverside, USA. Her research interests are world-systems analysis, East Asian piracy and East Asian regional systems, evolutionary comparative analyses of firms, cities, nation-states and empires, formal simulation modeling, global inequality, and the application of quantitative and network analyses methods to these topics.

• Chapter 1: Time Mapping Globalization: Spatio-temporal Bounding of Human Sociocultural Interaction Systems (Christopher Chase-Dunn).- Part I: Decision Rules.- Chapter 2. High Bar Rules of Thumb for Time-Mapping Systemic Human Interaction Networks (Christopher Chase-Dunn).- Chapter 3. Network Boundaries and Systemness (Robert A. Hanneman).- Chapter 4. When States-Systems Unite: Spatio-temporal boundaries and transition issues in the unification of the Central, Far Eastern, and Indic states-systems (David Wilkinson).- Chapter 5. Systemic Boundaries and Mathematical Modeling of the World System (Andrey Korotayev).- Chapter 6. The Information Network in Premodern Hierarchical World-Systems (Teresa Neal).- Part II: Fuzzy Zones.- Chapter 7. Bounding the Fuzzy Zones at the Edges of World-Systems (Thomas D. Hall).- Chapter 8. Incursions, Climate Change, and Early Globalization Patterns (William R. Thompson).- Chapter 9. The Irish and the Vikings on the Edge of Central Civilization (Robert A. Denemark).- Part III: Spatio-Temporal Cases.- Chapter 10. Afro-Eurasian Systemic Connections (E. N. Anderson).- Chapter 11. World-System Cycles Since 1000 BC: Temporal Boundaries and Factors Affecting the Pulse of the System (Philippe Beaujard).- Chapter 12. From the Nanhai to the Indian Ocean and Beyond: Southeast Asia in the Maritime ‘Silk’ Roads of the Eurasian World Economy, 200 BCE – 500CE (Sing C. Chew).- Chapter 13. The North American Continental System: A Perspective from the Western Periphery (Mikael Fauvelle).- Chapter 14. Tribute-Trade System and Maritime Capitalism in Early Modern East Asia: The Rise and Fall of Koxinga (Ho-Fung Hung).- Chapter 15. Pirates, bandits and steppe nomads in the development of the East Asian world-system (Hiroko Inoue).- Part IV: Unresolved Issues and Ways Forward.- Chapter 16. Contentious Issues in the Spatio-Temporal Bounding of Systemic Interpolity Networks.

Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division and director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside, USA, and founding editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research. His research focuses on the causes of human socio-cultural evolution, global state formation and the democratization of global governance.Hiroko Inoue is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at University of California-Riverside, USA. Her research interests are world-systems analysis, East Asian piracy and East Asian regional systems, evolutionary comparative analyses of firms, cities, nation-states and empires, formal simulation modeling, global inequality, and the application of quantitative and network analyses methods to these topics.

• Chapter 1: Time Mapping Globalization: Spatio-temporal Bounding of Human Sociocultural Interaction Systems (Christopher Chase-Dunn).- Part I: Decision Rules.- Chapter 2. High Bar Rules of Thumb for Time-Mapping Systemic Human Interaction Networks (Christopher Chase-Dunn).- Chapter 3. Network Boundaries and Systemness (Robert A. Hanneman).- Chapter 4. When States-Systems Unite: Spatio-temporal boundaries and transition issues in the unification of the Central, Far Eastern, and Indic states-systems (David Wilkinson).- Chapter 5. Systemic Boundaries and Mathematical Modeling of the World System (Andrey Korotayev).- Chapter 6. The Information Network in Premodern Hierarchical World-Systems (Teresa Neal).- Part II: Fuzzy Zones.- Chapter 7. Bounding the Fuzzy Zones at the Edges of World-Systems (Thomas D. Hall).- Chapter 8. Incursions, Climate Change, and Early Globalization Patterns (William R. Thompson).- Chapter 9. The Irish and the Vikings on the Edge of Central Civilization (Robert A. Denemark).- Part III: Spatio-Temporal Cases.- Chapter 10. Afro-Eurasian Systemic Connections (E. N. Anderson).- Chapter 11. World-System Cycles Since 1000 BC: Temporal Boundaries and Factors Affecting the Pulse of the System (Philippe Beaujard).- Chapter 12. From the Nanhai to the Indian Ocean and Beyond: Southeast Asia in the Maritime ‘Silk’ Roads of the Eurasian World Economy, 200 BCE – 500CE (Sing C. Chew).- Chapter 13. The North American Continental System: A Perspective from the Western Periphery (Mikael Fauvelle).- Chapter 14. Tribute-Trade System and Maritime Capitalism in Early Modern East Asia: The Rise and Fall of Koxinga (Ho-Fung Hung).- Chapter 15. Pirates, bandits and steppe nomads in the development of the East Asian world-system (Hiroko Inoue).- Part IV: Unresolved Issues and Ways Forward.- Chapter 16. Contentious Issues in the Spatio-Temporal Bounding of Systemic Interpolity Networks.

Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division and director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside, USA, and founding editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research. His research focuses on the causes of human socio-cultural evolution, global state formation and the democratization of global governance.Hiroko Inoue is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at University of California-Riverside, USA. Her research interests are world-systems analysis, East Asian piracy and East Asian regional systems, evolutionary comparative analyses of firms, cities, nation-states and empires, formal simulation modeling, global inequality, and the application of quantitative and network analyses methods to these topics.

• Chapter 1: Time Mapping Globalization: Spatio-temporal Bounding of Human Sociocultural Interaction Systems (Christopher Chase-Dunn).- Part I: Decision Rules.- Chapter 2. High Bar Rules of Thumb for Time-Mapping Systemic Human Interaction Networks (Christopher Chase-Dunn).- Chapter 3. Network Boundaries and Systemness (Robert A. Hanneman).- Chapter 4. When States-Systems Unite: Spatio-temporal boundaries and transition issues in the unification of the Central, Far Eastern, and Indic states-systems (David Wilkinson).- Chapter 5. Systemic Boundaries and Mathematical Modeling of the World System (Andrey Korotayev).- Chapter 6. The Information Network in Premodern Hierarchical World-Systems (Teresa Neal).- Part II: Fuzzy Zones.- Chapter 7. Bounding the Fuzzy Zones at the Edges of World-Systems (Thomas D. Hall).- Chapter 8. Incursions, Climate Change, and Early Globalization Patterns (William R. Thompson).- Chapter 9. The Irish and the Vikings on the Edge of Central Civilization (Robert A. Denemark).- Part III: Spatio-Temporal Cases.- Chapter 10. Afro-Eurasian Systemic Connections (E. N. Anderson).- Chapter 11. World-System Cycles Since 1000 BC: Temporal Boundaries and Factors Affecting the Pulse of the System (Philippe Beaujard).- Chapter 12. From the Nanhai to the Indian Ocean and Beyond: Southeast Asia in the Maritime ‘Silk’ Roads of the Eurasian World Economy, 200 BCE – 500CE (Sing C. Chew).- Chapter 13. The North American Continental System: A Perspective from the Western Periphery (Mikael Fauvelle).- Chapter 14. Tribute-Trade System and Maritime Capitalism in Early Modern East Asia: The Rise and Fall of Koxinga (Ho-Fung Hung).- Chapter 15. Pirates, bandits and steppe nomads in the development of the East Asian world-system (Hiroko Inoue).- Part IV: Unresolved Issues and Ways Forward.- Chapter 16. Contentious Issues in the Spatio-Temporal Bounding of Systemic Interpolity Networks.