Wallerstein asserted that the core wealthy nations of the world rely on a peripheral group of poorer countries in order to remain wealthy, but that some states
A) don't mind that they are being exploited.
B) act as both core and periphery in a world system economy.
C) think that modernization is ethnocentric and have no part of it.
D) realize they are without power to become one of the core wealthy nations.

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Wallerstein's world-systems theory describes a global economic system divided into core, periphery, and semi-periphery countries. Semi-periphery countries have characteristics of both core and periphery countries, acting as a buffer or a link between the two, which supports the choice that some states act as both core and periphery in a world system economy.

Wallerstein Asserted That the Core Wealthy Nations of the World