Political Science 2225E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Core Countries, Exaggeration
22 Dec 2020
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Key tenets: development & underdevelopment is a product of capitalist economic system. Developing countries are poor because of external factors. The world is best divided into metropole & satellites or core semi-periphery & periphery world. Core: metropole; developed countries such as usa make decisions for the world. Semi-periphery: satellites; countries that benefit from core countries, located close to core countries. Development is a zero-sum game (must be winners & losers) External forces shape politics in the developing world". Internal contradictions (why are some ldcs doing well) Exaggeration of economic integration of the south.
