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Since its establishment in Europe, capitalism has witnessed a shift in global politico-economic power dynamics. Some nations ascended to dominate the world economy, while others fell from prominence to poverty. This transformation was particularly evident in the case of China and India, which were once central to the pre-modern global economy with their respective empires but transitioned into peripheries of the capitalist world trade structure. These regions experienced occupation, colonization, de-industrialization, and resource exploitation for the industrialization and modernization of core countries, primarily Western Europe and the United States. The Rise of the Semi-Core: China, India, and Pakistan in the World-System delves into modern capitalist history, unraveling the increasing complexities that give rise to the emergence of a semi-core. It argues that nations must possess both economic and strategic national powers to maintain their hierarchical position within the capitalist world-system. Western powers of the eighteenth century, equipped with superior military capabilities, expanded their dominion globally, including in China and India, converting these regions into peripheries that served the core's interests in terms of raw material provision, product consumption, and facilitating capital flow. Once decolonized, China and India initially adopted a statist model of development, nevertheless these nations could grow only when they aligned with core interests.

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"""Dr. Lashari's close study of the changing structures of global stratification shines valuable light on the reemergence of economic multipolarity in the contemporary world-system. He successfully contends that a new stratum - the semi-core--has been added to the multidimensional global hierarchy by the rise of challengers to the post World War II world order This new framework enhances our ability to prehend what can be expected to emerge in the global system as the 21st century proceeds."""

""Dr. Lashari's close study of the changing structures of global stratification shines valuable light on the reemergence of economic multipolarity in the contemporary world-system. He successfully contends that a new stratum - the semi-core--has been added to the multidimensional global hierarchy by the rise of challengers to the post World War II world order This new framework enhances our ability to prehend what can be expected to emerge in the global system as the 21st century proceeds.""

"""Dr. Lashari's close study of the changing structures of global stratification shines valuable light on the reemergence of economic multipolarity in the contemporary world-system. He successfully contends that a new stratum - the semi-core--has been added to the multidimensional global hierarchy by the rise of challengers to the post World War II world order This new framework enhances our ability to prehend what can be expected to emerge in the global system as the 21st century proceeds."" --Christopher Chase-Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California-Riverside ""Dr. Lashari's close study of the changing structures of global stratification shines valuable light on the reemergence of economic multipolarity in the contemporary world-system. He successfully contends that a new stratum - the semi-core--has been added to the multidimensional global hierarchy by the rise of challengers to the post World War II world order This new framework enhances our ability to prehend what can be expected to emerge in the global system as the 21st century proceeds."""

"""Dr. Lashari's close study of the changing structures of global stratification shines valuable light on the reemergence of economic multipolarity in the contemporary world-system. He successfully contends that a new stratum - the semi-core--has been added to the multidimensional global hierarchy by the rise of challengers to the post World War II world order This new framework enhances our ability to prehend what can be expected to emerge in the global system as the 21st century proceeds."" --Christopher Chase-Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California-Riverside"

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Samee Ullah Khan Lashari studied Political Science at Northern Arizona University as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2017, he graduated with a PhD from there and joined South Texas College as a Lecturer.

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