The Theory That Posits That the Industrialized Nations of the West

question 16

Multiple Choice

The theory that posits that the industrialized nations of the West play a strategic role in "developing" the underdeveloped world is

• A) modernization theory.
• B) dependency theory.
• C) co-dependency theory.
• D) world systems theory.

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