David Ormond Wilkinson (born 1939) is a professor of political science at the Department of Political Science of the University of California, Los Angeles.
degree in 1960, Wilkinson was admitted to Columbia University, and received his M.A.
He also serves as an editor for the Comparative Civilizations Review[1] and the Journal of World-Systems Research.
[2] Wilkinson redefines civilization on connectedness criterion,[3] not cultural criterion, as "a city-state, cities-state, or tightly linked politico-military network of such states that are not a part of a larger such network",[4] and considers civilizations as world-systems.
[8] The notion that the Middle East and Europe are in the same system was also adopted by Ian Morris's award-winning book Why the West Rules—For Now, which defines the West as all civilizations descending from the Fertile Crescent, rather than just the traditional Western world.