World systems theory

multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change that stresses that the world-system should be the primary unit of social analysis

notion that resources flow from a periphery of poor underdeveloped states to a core of wealthy states; contends that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the world system

Neo-nationalism, or new nationalism, is an ideology and political movement built on the basic characteristics of classical nationalism. It developed to its final form by applying elements with reactionary character generated as a reaction to the political, economic and demographic changes that came with globalization during the second wave of globalization in the 1980s.

term, in the Russian-speaking world, referring to the relatively wealthy people in industrially developed nations, or the West

political concept during the Cold War

country with a less developed economy than semi-periphery and core countries

industrialized capitalist countries

industrializing countries which are positioned between the periphery and core countries