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[edit] The Durham Thesis

[edit] Overview

The Durham Thesis was introduced by Dr. Roger J. Durham, Ph.D. in his preliminary draft thesis paper, "Global Inequality: Linking Regime Theory with Dependency". It hypothesizes that stronger states dominate weaker states through international regimes. Dr. Roger Durham's study attempts to prove that there is an overlap in the paradigms of Neomarxism and Neorealism, that is Dependencia from the Neomarxist paradigm is aided by Regime Theory from the Neorealist paradigm. Specifically, the Durham Thesis focuses on international regimes in the Northern central states establishing and/or perpetuating dependency structures in the Southern periphery states.

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1. Durham, Roger Global Inequality: Linking Regime Theory with Dependency Preliminary draft presented at Annual Meeting of the Michigan Conference of Political Scientists, Lansing Community College Oct. 17-18, 2002. (Comments on preliminary draft are most welcomed by the author)