The 1980s will see significant changes in world economic stratification, with a relative shortening of the distance between the center and the semi-periphery and a greater distance between the semi-periphery and the rest of the Third World. It will be characterized by the crystallization of a middle class of emerging nations that will finally reach an understanding with the center and will have an expansion of its powers and benefits in the economic system. The formation of this middle class will take power away from the periphery and reduce vertical mobility between the two categories, so that those countries in the semi-periphery that do not obtain consistent growth rates will be relegated to a periphery that is narrower, more helpless and oppressed than that of the immediate past.
Keywords:
International Economic Relations, New International Economic Order, Center-Periphery Relations, International Middle Class, North-South Dialogue
Author Biography
Javier Alcalde
Colabora en la Oficina de Relaciones Externas de la Junta del Acuerdo de Cartagena. Master en relaciones internacionales en la Universidad de Southampton.
Alcalde, J. (1981). Las relaciones económicas internacionales en la década del 80. Estudios Internacionales, 14(53), p. 105–135. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.1981.16279
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