Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed… - Robert Gilpin

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

Both the control of territory and the political domination of one state over another have profound consequences for international economic relations. However... market power or economic power has itself become a principal means by which states seek to organize and manipulate the international division of labor to their own advantage.