Just published in the latest issue of the electronic journal Journal of World Systems Research, “The Long Twentieth Century and Barriers to China’s Hegemonic Succession” by John Gulick (i.e., yours truly).  The (very long! and a trifle dated) article is a critical exegesis of Giovanni Arrighi’s landmark (and now, 17 year-old) book, from the perspective of how it adds to (and to a lesser degree, inhibits) our current understanding of China’s prospective (and I stress “prospective”!) global hegemony. Some of its more relevant and timely elements include: 1) an argument as …