Sub-imperalism Revisited

A theoretically rigorous examination of the claims of dependency theory in a world increasingly dominated by regional superpowers.

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One of the central claims of dependency theory - the nearly dominate framework adopted by the entire discipline of development studies since the 1960s - was that the yoke of imperial powers, especially the United States, weighed so heavily as to preclude the possibility of nations in the Third World becoming peer competitors on the global market. But what does the growing economic might of regional superpowers like Brazil mean for these views?