GEOG 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Immanuel Kant, World-Systems Theory, Economic History
5 Dec 2018
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World system theory was first developed by the american economic historian. Immanuel kant (enlightenment period provided a new framework) This relationship is organized around three tiers: core, semiperipheral, and peripheral regions. Colonialism: the establishment and maintenance of political and legal domination by a state over a separate society. Peripheral regions (under developed countries): characterized by dependent and disadvantageous trading relationships, obsolete technologies, and undeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity their per capita incomes are low semiperipheral regions (ex. Brazil and india): able to exploit peripheral regions but are themselves exploited and dominate by core regions. They consist of mostly countries that were once peripheral this category is due to the dynamic nature of the world system: neither peripheral status nor core status is necessarily permanent. Canada, us, japan all achieved core status after having been peripheral.
