Cooperation Across Borders Practice Test

In world-systems theory, core regions are the wealthy, industrialized centers that control global trade. These areas concentrate advanced industries, high-capital production, and powerful institutions, which lets them shape markets, set terms of trade, and extract profits from less-developed regions. That’s why this term fits best for a powerful, trade-controlling area. The other options describe different ideas: a regional grouping of countries (ASEAN), the dependent relationships between countries (dependency), or the outcomes of unequal development (economic disparity), none of which pinpoint the role of dominating global trade like the core region does.