Jorge lives and works in a country that mass produces goods using cheap labor. It imports raw materials very cheaply and uses its labor to make a moderate profit. The country is fairly stable but still subject to some internal strife. Identify which World Systems Theory zone Jorge’s country is in, and explain why.

What will be an ideal response?

Jorge’s country is in the semi-periphery because it manufactures instead of producing raw materials like a peripheral country, and it makes a modest profit but not a great profit like core countries. It is also less stable than core countries but more stable them peripheral countries.