Carlos Eduardo Martins, Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (USP), is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), researcher at CLACSO and coordinator of the Laboratory of Studies on hegemony and counter-hegemony (UFRJ). In 2007 he received the Jabuti Award.

• ForewordTheotonio Dos SantosPreface to the English EditionTranslator’s AcknowledgementList of FiguresPrologueAdrián Sotelo ValenciaIntroduction 1 Social Sciences and the Challenge of Globalization 2 The Modern World System and Capitalism: Origins, Cycles and Secularity 3 Globalization and the Crisis of the Modern World System 4 Impasses of US Hegemony: 21st Century Perspectives 5 Dependency and Development in the Modern World System 6 Revisiting the Political Economy of Dependency in the Light of Marx and Contemporary Capitalism 7 Latin America: Dependency, Neoliberalism and New Models of Development 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index

Carlos Eduardo Martins, Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (USP), is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), researcher at CLACSO and coordinator of the Laboratory of Studies on hegemony and counter-hegemony (UFRJ). In 2007 he received the Jabuti Award.

• ForewordTheotonio Dos SantosPreface to the English EditionTranslator’s AcknowledgementList of FiguresPrologueAdrián Sotelo ValenciaIntroduction 1 Social Sciences and the Challenge of Globalization 2 The Modern World System and Capitalism: Origins, Cycles and Secularity 3 Globalization and the Crisis of the Modern World System 4 Impasses of US Hegemony: 21st Century Perspectives 5 Dependency and Development in the Modern World System 6 Revisiting the Political Economy of Dependency in the Light of Marx and Contemporary Capitalism 7 Latin America: Dependency, Neoliberalism and New Models of Development 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index

Carlos Eduardo Martins, Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (USP), is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), researcher at CLACSO and coordinator of the Laboratory of Studies on hegemony and counter-hegemony (UFRJ). In 2007 he received the Jabuti Award.

• ForewordTheotonio Dos SantosPreface to the English EditionTranslator’s AcknowledgementList of FiguresPrologueAdrián Sotelo ValenciaIntroduction 1 Social Sciences and the Challenge of Globalization 2 The Modern World System and Capitalism: Origins, Cycles and Secularity 3 Globalization and the Crisis of the Modern World System 4 Impasses of US Hegemony: 21st Century Perspectives 5 Dependency and Development in the Modern World System 6 Revisiting the Political Economy of Dependency in the Light of Marx and Contemporary Capitalism 7 Latin America: Dependency, Neoliberalism and New Models of Development 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index