Professor
Ph. D. Columbia University, 1965

Office: 3280 Bunche Hall
Phone: (310) 825-3450
Fax: (310) 825-0778
E-mail: dow@ucla.edu

Mailing Address:
     UCLA Department of Political Science
     4289 Bunche Hall
     Box 951472
     Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472

Class Websites:

     PS126-1 Peace and War
     PS119-1 Politics, Theory and Film
     PS20-1 World Politics

Field:

International Relations.

Research Interests:
David Wilkinson studies long-term and large-scale phenomena in world politics, including empires and systems of independent states. His research explores the fluctuations in the power structures of civilizations and world systems on very long time scales, while also touching on contemporary issues of multipolarity, unipolarity and hegemony. Professor Wilkinson serves as an editor for the Journal of World-Systems Research and the Comparative Civilizations Review.

Work in Progress:

• "Science and Civilizational Study: A Sand-Clearing Procedure"
• "The Contemporaneity of Classical Hegemony"

Selected Publications:

• "Global Civilization--Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow." In World Civilizations, edited by Robert Holton, in Encyclopedia of Life-Support Systems (EOLSS), the UNESCO Online Encyclopedia. Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2007.
• "States Systems and Universal Empires." In World System History, ed. George Modelski and Robert A. Denemark, in Encyclopedia of Life-Support Systems (EOLSS), the UNESCO Online Encyclopedia. Eolss Publishers, Oxford, UK, 2007.
• (with Sergey V. Tsirel) "Analysis of Power-Structure Fluctuations in the “Longue Durée” of the South Asian World System", Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences (2006): Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 2.
• "The Power Configuration Sequence of the Central World System, 1500--700 BC", Journal of World-Systems Research, X, 3, Fall 2004, 655-720
• "Civilizations as Networks: Trade, War, Diplomacy, Command-Control--States-systems Bonded by Influence, Alliance, and War relations." Complexity, Vol. 8 No. 1 (2003), 82-86
• "The Status of the Far Eastern Civilization/World System: Evidence from City Data.", Journal of World-Systems Research, VIII, 3, Fall 2002, 292-328
• "Power Polarity In The Far Eastern World System, 1025 BC--AD 1850: Narrative And 25-Year Interval Data." Journal of World-Systems Research, V, 3, Fall 1999, 501-617