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Human societies have long experienced the increasingly rapid expansion of the modern world-economy; an economy that has existed since at least the middle 1400s, meeting crisis after crisis in accumulation (e.g.Abu-Lughod 1989; Arrighi 1994; Chase-Dunn 1998; Chase-Dunn and Hall 1997; Chew 2001; Frank 1978, 1998; Frank and Gills 1993; Kentor 2000; Moore 2003; Pomeranz 2000; Wallerstein 1974, 1979). Rapid technological growth has been part and parcel of this expansion that has tightened the global division of labor and importance of distant events for all humans. This division of labor permits further expansion in rationalized production, and it reaches everywhere to expand markets and offer up cheap labor and material resources to increase surplus value ( e.g. Marx 1906; see also Foster 1999, 2002; Harvey 1999).

The authors establish in an empirical way structure and change in world-system structure in two periods, 1960 to 1965 and 1970 to 1975, as that structure is operationalized by key international networks. The interplay between global and national domains of analyses is examined with respect to the national-level consequences of strong, weak, and intermediate ties for the noncore countries of the world. When taken together, the dynamics studied permit an examination of the central themes of world-system theory and network approaches in general, while identifying future agendas for sociological theorizing and research.