War in the world-system / edited by Robert K. Schaeffer.

"The chapters in the book were first presented at the twelfth annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference ... held at Emory University in March 1988"--Pref.

Introduction / Robert Schaeffer -- War in the core of the world-system :testing the Goldstein thesis / Terry Boswell, Mike Sweat, and John Brueggemann -- The world-system, militarization, and national development / Byron L. Davis, Edward L. Kick, and David Kiefer -- Core wars of the future / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kenneth O'Reilly -- A principal-agent analysis of the initiation of warin absolutist states / Edgar Kiser -- World war, the advent of nuclear weapons,and global expansion of the national security state / Gregory McLauchlan -- Devolution, partition, and war in the interstate system / Robert Schaeffer -- Economic fluctations, military expenditures, and warfare in international relations /Raimo Vёyrynen.