World systems theory
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Wallerstein's core and periphery model still explains global trade today
Why do core countries stay rich while periphery countries supply raw materials?
Is the semiperiphery a real category or a polite way to avoid calling a country poor?
Why dependency theorists say free trade keeps the periphery dependent
Toynbee's theory of how civilizations rise and then decline
Why world-systems theory expects the rich-poor gap to widen even as trade grows
Why critics say world-systems theory treats every country as one single economic unit
Does China count as core or semiperiphery in world-systems analysis?
How world-systems theory traces today's supply chains back to the colonial division of labor
Can a country leave the periphery by exporting manufactured goods instead of raw materials?
World-systems theory vs modernization theory: two rival explanations for why some nations stay poor
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