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The Wallerstein Institute for World Futures
Immanuel Wallerstein

Commentaries

Wallerstein published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019. The commentaries were intended to be reflections on the contemporary world scene, as seen from the perspective not of the immediate headlines but of the long term.

Immanuel Wallerstein and Columbia

The full 500 commentaries can be accessed for free:

Each year opens in a new tab, at the Fernand Braudel Center archive.

His commentaries have been translated into Albanian, Arabic, Belorussian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Euskara, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

Immanuel Wallerstein and Columbia
Commentaries

Wallerstein published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019. The commentaries were intended to be reflections on the contemporary world scene, as seen from the perspective not of the immediate headlines but of the long term.