Conflict Theory • Immanuel Wallerstein’s world systems model focuses on inequality and exploitation on a global scale between countries and regions • much of the world was once under the colonial rule...

Conflict Theory

• Immanuel Wallerstein’s world systems model focuses on inequality and exploitation on a global scale between countries and regions

• much of the world was once under the colonial rule of various European powers; powerful countries now use neocolonialism to maintain control over poor nations

• globalization is a complex process by which the international states and economies are becoming more and more intertwined