ABSTRACT
To reflect on the processes of economic internationalization requires a serious effort to identify the specific agents involved as well as to gauge the weight and effect of their actions. These agents or agencies include the capitalist states at both the center and the periphery of the world capitalist system (hereinafter CCSs and PCSs), the multinational corporations (MNCs) that roam the world in search of profit-making opportunities and the international organizations that dominate the world economy. An indispensable step in this analysis is to elaborate a “situational frame” that allows us to delineate the relations of domination and subordination that exist at this level.
