the following review helpful 4.0 out of 5 stars If you want to see the world he wants please have a look at Cambodia 4 Mar 2011 By Aaron Crandall - Published on Amazon.com Format: Hardcover | Amazon Verified Purchase Samir Amin attended the Sorbonne in Paris receiving degrees in political science and economics. In his autobiography Itinraire intellectuel (1990) he wrote that in order to spend a substantial amount of time in "militant action" he could devote only a minimum of time to preparing for his university exams. In Paris, Amin joined the French Communist Party (PCF), and associated himself for some time with Maoist circles. Like Samir Amin a young Pol Pot in Paris said, "I joined the progressive student movement. As I spent more of my time in radical activities, I did not attend many classes." In 1957 Amin he presented his thesis, originally titled "The origins of underdevelopment - capitalist accumulation on a world scale". Samir Amin promoted the Dependency theory. Dependency theory predicated on the notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. It is a central contention of dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system." Many dependency theorists advocate social revolution as an effective means to the reduction of economic disparities in the world system. Samir later advised Cambodian PHD