semi-periphery

These changes can lead to a semi-periphery country being promoted to a core nation.

At the same time, the core benefits from the semi-periphery through unequal exchange relations.

There are many ways to attribute a specific country to the core, semi-periphery, or periphery.

How well they exploit these advantages determines their arrangement within the semi-periphery class.

The following are semi-periphery countries according to Wallerstein (1976).

The semi-periphery exists because it needs to divide the economic power between the core and the periphery.

Other terms used to describe semi-periphery countries include sub-imperial and semi-industrial.

Semi-periphery countries usually surround the core countries both in a physical and fundamental sense.

One main way in which a periphery country can rise to semi-periphery or core status is through the stabilization of its government.

The West represented both the core and the semi-periphery, as Europe dominated 80% of the world's market share.

World-systems theory describes the semi-periphery as a key structural element in the world economy.

The following are semi-periphery countries from an updated version of essays by Wallerstein (1997).

Nations considered part of the semi-periphery felt oppressed by the stronger, larger core nations.

He argues that this system inherently leads to a division of the world in core, semi-periphery and periphery.

It postulates a third category of countries, the semi-periphery, intermediate between the core and periphery.

It is, however, possible for periphery countries to rise out of their status and move into semi-periphery or core status.

Wallerstein examines the role of semi-periphery countries during a period of economic downturn.

The term semi-periphery has been applied to countries that existed as early as in the thirteenth century.

Thus we should focus not on individual states, but on the relations between their groupings (core, semi-periphery, and periphery).

As the two groups grew apart in power, world systems theorists to established another group, the semi-periphery, to act as the middle group.

Immanuel Wallerstein identifies three ways by which countries can emerge from the periphery into the semi-periphery.

In this model, the semi-periphery is industrialised, but with less sophistication of technology than in the core; and it does not control finances.

Today, the semi-periphery is generally industrialized.

There are, however, ways in which periphery countries can rise from their poor status and become semi-periphery countries or even core countries.

Semi-periphery regions play a major role in mediating economic, political, and social activities that link core and peripheral areas.