What is the basic premise of the Core-Periphery relationship?
1 As the world economy expanded, it developed a core of less developed countries and a periphery of dominant, more
developed countries.
2 As the world economy expanded, a cycle developed wherein countries (such as the United States) spent about a century as
a peripheral player in the world economy, then gained power and became a dominant economic power at the core of the
world economy.
3 As the world economy expanded, it developed a core of dominant, developed countries and a periphery of dominated less
developed countries.
4 As the world economy expanded, it developed a core of capitalist countries and a periphery of communist countries.
5 As the world economy expanded, a cycle developed wherein countries (such as Great Britain) spent about a century as the
dominant power in the world economy, then lost its power and joined the periphery of less dominant economic powers.
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