However, the idea that rich countries will pull the poor countries out of their poverty is seen as one of the promises not kept by the rich, regarding Isbister. And that’s what the general idea of Structuralism suggests. Unlike modernizationists who see a simple partnership between the “have” and “have not”, structuralists are concerned with relationships within a broader framework or system of action. The key of understanding phenomena is thus to forget the “player” and focus on the “rules of the game”, which are the networks, linkages, interdependencies, and interactions among the parts of some system. Two important structuralist approaches are Marxism and Dependency Theory.