Christopher Chase-Dunn

Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division and director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside, USA, and founding editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research. His research focuses on the causes of human socio-cultural evolution, global state formation and the democratization of global governance.

Hiroko Inoue is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at University of California-Riverside, USA. Her research interests are world-systems analysis, East Asian piracy and East Asian regional systems, evolutionary comparative analyses of firms, cities, nation-states and empires, formal simulation modeling, global inequality, and the application of quantitative and network analyses methods to these topics.