ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the issue of political change in natural resources rich peripheral capitalist countries as center-periphery capitalist relations deepens in the historical period marked by the transition from neoliberalism to post-neoliberalism. The main argument here is as follows: neoliberal democratization represented regime change in post-colonial authoritarian states, but these states are subjected to further imperial intervention under the guise of deepening democracy. The reality is that center-periphery capitalist relations are further deeply embedded in the resource rich countries, as the imperial powers continue to intagliate their evolving brand of peripheral capitalism of the political economy of those states.
