New Perspectives in the World-System Analysis; An Approach to the General Theory of Systems

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to present a general view of the theoretical perspective of the World-Systems Analysis and how it has general lines of research, to which very little diffusion has been given. Above all, emphasis is placed on the theoretical developments of Inmmanuel Wallerstein, Because this author (besides being the founder of this theoretical perspective) has given rise to the development of new theoretical developments with what he calls the "second phase" of the World System Analysis. At the end of this paper, suggestions are presented, derived from a theoretical review of the "second phase" for a possible incorporation of the Systems-World Analysis into the broader epistemological paradigm of the General Systems Theory.