ABSTRACT
Pablo González Casanova’s thought has its first intellectual references in terms of North and South geopolitics in the idea of the Third World, a concept that comes from the Cold War between East and West, between capitalism and bureaucratic State socialism. However, the concept of the South must be traced in the theoretical approaches that appear in different parts of his work. In Imperialismo y liberación en América Latina: Una introducción a la historia contemporánea (Imperialism and Liberation), he associates social history with the international division of labor, the formation of hierarchies between center and periphery, in which he coincides with the theory of the modern world system by Immanuel Wallerstein, although González Casanova redefines the meaning of semi-periphery, considering that each national State includes an asymmetrical relationship between center and periphery, just as colonialism has a global dimension but also a national dimension that is expressed in internal colonialism.
