Rule, generally through institutionalized means, has distributive effects in political society (domestic or international), granting privileged access to material and symbolic resources to some agents over others.
These structures are respectively enabled by the repetition over time of behavior consistent with instructive, hierarchichal, and commissive rules by agents.
This may be converted into a number of instructive rules, which in turn, if followed over time, create, for instance, cultural hegemony.
Such rules limit the agent's autonomy, resulting in a heteronomous structure of domination such as that found in the core-periphery setting of the world economy as expounded by Dependency Theory.
Onuf further developed and refined the ideas set out in World in a series of chapters in edited volumes: