Components of Power

When states wish to develop a power base, of course, they most often turn to some form of militarism. The drive toward military power and the drive toward the building of the nation-state are seen by Kennedy as connected after 1450, and power is associated by him not merely with the development of a military strength as such but also with the increasing centralization of political power in the nation-state. This trend was also affected by changes in economic conditions as well as other forces:

Economic changes had already undermined much of the old feudal order, and different social groups had to relate to each other through newer forms of contract and obligation. . . The decline of Latin and the growing use of vernacular language by politicians, lawyers, bureaucrats, and poet

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involves the dependency of the Third World on the developed world in a relationship defined by the exploitation of resources. Dependency theory was developed as an explanation for the patterns of development found in Latin America, finding that this pattern had been conditioned by the incorporation of the region into the capitalist mode of production. Development and underdevelopment are seen in terms of dependency theory as part of the same process and not as separate entities. Dependency theory was fashioned to explain the patterns of development in Latin America and held that this development had been conditioned by the incorporation of the region into the capitalist mode of production. The dependency of the Third World on the developed capitalist nations involves an interaction that explains the economic and social-class formations that have emerged in places like Latin America and also the structure of trade, technology, and investment between the developed and the developing world (Gilbert and Gugler 1-3). There are more forces at work than simply economic conditions, of course, and the world picture is more complex than dependency theory might indicate. Gilbert and Gugler state that the term "Third World" has been muc
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