semiperiphery
- noun
- /ˌsɛmiˈpɛrəfəri/
- Jargon
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semiperiferia
- In the modern world system, the semiperiphery is composed of large and powerful countries in the Third World (for example, Mexico, India, Brazil, China) and smaller countries that have reached intermediate levels of economic development (such as the East Asian newly industrialized countries).
Examples
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The semiperiphery serves as a buffer between the core and periphery nations in the global economy, highlighting their unique position.
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Thus, when Iraq nationalized oil, it "seized the chance" to push into the semiperiphery via its bargaining position as a member of OPEC.
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Iraq "seized the chance" to move into the semiperiphery through the nationalization of oil and the OPEC price increases.
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The concept of "perennial change" within the capitalist world-economy is particularly relevant to Iraq and the semiperiphery in general.
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To explain spatial differences beyond the generic core, periphery, and semiperiphery, scholars have called for a reconstructed regional geography.
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Del Carmen, M., and L. Thompson. 1990. Migration in a small semiperiphery: The movement of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans.
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The Russian and Chinese revolutions were socialist movements in the semiperiphery that intended to transform the global logic of capitalism but ended up using socialist ideology to mobilize industrialization for the purpose of catching up with core capitalism.
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Countries like Mexico and India are often considered part of the semiperiphery due to their intermediate levels of economic development.
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In world systems theory, the semiperiphery includes nations that are not fully developed but are improving economically and politically.
Synonyms
A country or region with medium economic and political power between rich and poor states
Antonyms
How Peripheral
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Semiperiphery comes from semi- meaning 'half' and periphery meaning 'edge' or 'outside', as in semicircle and perimeter. So a semiperiphery is like a place 'halfway at the edge' between the rich 'core' and the poorer 'periphery', which is why we use it for regions or countries that sit in the middle of global development.