Playa Novillero, Mexico Sign us up. This beach is 56 miles long, a third of a mile wide and water that's shallow enough that you can walk about 330 feet into the water. Ninety Mile Beach, New Zealand Unlike its neighbor to the west, this beach, on the North Island, is really only about 55 miles long.
World-systems theory. World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective), is a multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system (and not nation states) as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis.
Dependency theory was in the context of the decolonization movement in Latin America and the debate happening at the time over development policies like import-substitution; world-systems analysis was advanced as a way to argue the importance of seeing the world as one large and integrated political-economic system, as opposed to the more prevalent way of analyzing countries and regions as if they were isolated actors separate from one another, or from a global system.