ABSTRACT
The specific theories introduced by Peter Gourevitch include late industrialization and centralized state control; and dependency, core-periphery, and imperialism. Since capital, organization technology, and military preponderance are in the hands of the core, the core countries are able to set the terms under which skill, capital, and markets will be provided to the periphery. According to Anthony Brewer, Marxist and neo-Marxist theories of imperialism envision poverty amidst plenty as but an outer shell of results produced by an inner structure of core and periphery. The presentation provided by V. Kubalkova and A. A. Cruickshank demonstrates how some dependency theorists seek to avoid exaggerating the impacts of external forces upon the periphery by referring, in effect, to the double injustice of core and periphery. Robert Gilpin implies that the concepts of core and periphery are no longer valid as units of analysis in world political economy, since the Third World may no longer be correctly conceived as a single formation.
