ABSTRACT
The development process that began after the Second World War found its privileged place in the nation-state. This project, in which modernization was assumed as universal ideal, provided an optimistic perspective for the nation’s economic development, based on assistance programs, bi- or multilateral in nature, usually led by the international organizations created in the meantime. Although he is commonly used in the different fields of the social sciences, a thinker like Immanuel Wallerstein levels violent criticism at all those who have adopted the globalization discourse, especially when it aims to emphasize the post-1990 times as something new in the construction of the capitalist world system. Globalization processes result from the interactions between the three constellations of practices.
