POL-UA 760 Lecture 2: Core & Periphery
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Because the north elites are playing the south elites against each other, south south alliance is not possible: moon 1995 foreign policy create constrained consensus" from the overlap of local elite"s economic interests, world views (western education) & threat perceptions (fear of radical movements) w those of core elites > rather than balancing against intrusive external power, as realism might expect, dependent elites typically bandwagon w a global patron to contain more immediate regional or domestic threat, easy for the core to exploit local rivalries to sustain their penetration of the region, exception is this: when the core was itself fractured as in bipolar world.
