CAUSES OF INTERNATIONAL DUALISM AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS

The neo-colonial dependence model, which is an indirect outgrowth of Marxist thinking, attributes the existence and continuance of the third world underdevelopment primarily to the historical evolution of a highly unequal international capitalist system of rich country-poor country relationships. Whether because rich nations are intentionally exploitative or unintentionally neglectful, the coexistence of rich and poor nations in an international system dominated by such unequal power (both politically and economically) relationships between the center (the developed) and the periphery (LDCs) renders attempts by poor nations to be self-reliant and independent difficult and sometimes even impossible.