ABSTRACT
A major cause of global social change in the world system model is the ubiquitous impact of We stern capital ism on the Third World. Like invading army ants, foreign capitalists appear everywhere during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a feverish search for resources and markets. Sometimes the doors to trade and investment are open and We stern capitalists can enter on their own, involving their home states only later. Although this pattern was common in many areas of Africa and Latin America, in many Asian nations these doors were shut and civilian capitalists required military aid from their home states to pry them open. Thus the interrelationships between state and bourgeoisie in both core and peripheral nations become a necessary focus of research.
