Thinker
Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein is central to 8 previous-year questions, spanning 2009 to 2024 across Paper I. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
8Questions
2009–24Years tested
IPaper
1Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Immanuel Wallerstein
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
unequal exchange 5development of underdevelopment 4capitalist world-economy 3core and periphery 3dependency 3semi-periphery 3core 2periphery 2surplus extraction 2dependency theorydevelopmentdigital divideglobal division of labourmetropolis-satellitemetropolis-satellite chainsmetropolis-satellite relationsmodernisation theorytechnological change
Where Immanuel Wallerstein appears in the syllabus
Every question on Immanuel Wallerstein
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