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Explain the central tenets of the World-Systems Theory.

  • UPSC 2024, 2017
  • 10 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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World-Systems Theory is the neo-Marxist historical sociology of Immanuel Wallerstein, launched in The Modern World-System (vol. I, 1974). Drawing on Vladimir Lenin's account of imperialism, the dependency school and Fernand Braudel's long-run history, it treats the modern world as one capitalist economy, so a country's wealth or poverty is a structural position, not a national…

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