Immanuel Wallerstein World Systems Analysis

 The world is divided into 3 categories and countries shift among these categories over time:  Global economic core consists of industrialized, developed countries that drive the global economy  The global economic periphery consists of countries that are underdeveloped and were, usually, once the core’s colonies  Ex: France and Mali, UK and Uganda  Global economic semi-periphery is a 3 rd region in the world system in which countries are between core and periphery

 are intermediate, being both exploited by the CORE  & take some role in the exploitation of the  peripheral areas.  In the recent past they have been expanding their manufacturing activities  particularly in products that core states no  longer find very profitable. (RUST BELT)  Ex: India, South Africa, Mexico, China  bridges the gap between the rich CORE countries and the POOR periphery countries

 Wallerstein divides the capitalist world- economy into core states, semi-peripheral, and peripheral regions.  The peripheral areas are the least developed; they are exploited by the CORE  for their cheap labor, raw materials, and  agricultural production. (Think cash crops)