Conflict management in the modern world-system |
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Authors: | Marian J Borg |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, 22903 Charlottesville, Virginia |
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Abstract: | What is the relationship between the status of nation-states in the modern world-system and their strategies for conflict management? Using Wallerstein's world-systems theory, Kick's empirical specifications of core, semiperiphery, and periphery, and Black's theory of conflict management, I examine the use of self-help, avoidance, negotiation, and third-party settlement by nation-states. These possible tactics are variously used as forms of social control from below, social control from above, and social control between equals. I argue that the status of nations within the world-system is correlated with the primary mode of conflict management they use at a given time. I speculate that the use of a particular strategy may also subsequently contribute to changes in nations' status. |
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Keywords: | conflict management social control world-system international relations negotiation third-party settlement avoidance |
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