The Geopolitics of Global Violence in World-Systems Analysis: Relevance and Problems

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Heriberto Cairo-Carou

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The article aims to reflect critically on the role of violence and, in particular, of global wars in the analysis of world-systems, turning to other theoretical perspectives, such as structuring and critical geopolitics, to better understand the issue. In this way, we can assert that the struggle for supremacy is not necessarily a struggle for hegemony, which would inevitably result in periodic world wars as a prelude to the rise of great powers to hegemonic status. Hegemony refers more to the rules and practices that constitute a geopolitical order than to a certain hierarchical ordering of states. There is no general pattern of explanation for all wars: both global power configurations and the interrelationships between the local and the global must be taken into account.

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Cairo-Carou, H. (2021). The Geopolitics of Global Violence in World-Systems Analysis: Relevance and Problems. URVIO. Revista Latinoamericana De Estudios De Seguridad, (30), 22–39. https://doi.org/10.17141/urvio.30.2021.4809
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