The Core-Periphery Divide in the European Union: A Dependency Perspective
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2 Studying Dependencies: A Conceptual Framework from the Periphery -- 2.1 Important Representatives of the Paradigm -- 2.2 No Primacy of the External Nor the Internal: Forms of Dependence in One Global Capitalist System -- 2.3 The 'Ideology of National Bourgeois Development' -- 2.4 Classes and States in Transnational Capitalism and New Dependency -- 2.5 Development and Socialism: Waiting for the 12th of Never? -- 2.6 Self-Reliance: Concept and Development Theory in Progress -- References -- Chapter 3 Development Studies and the Dependency Approach in European Research Networks of the 1970s and 1980s -- 3.1 States, Regions, and Struggles Between Classes and Spaces in Transnational Capitalism -- 3.2 Core and Periphery: Characteristics and Definitions -- 3.3 Semiperiphery and Division of Labor -- 3.4 The Core of Western Europe: An Incomplete Egg -- 3.5 The Periphery and the Semiperiphery of Western Europe -- 3.6 Italy: A Perimeter of the Core? -- 3.7 Eastern Europe: Completing the Egg? -- References -- Chapter 4 Old Paradigms and New Crises -- 4.1 The Old Development Paradigm 'From Above' -- 4.2 Transnational Companies: 'New' Actors Disguised by an Old Paradigm -- 4.3 Spatial Specialization, External Dependency, and Disintegration of Peripheral Regions -- 4.4 Dependent Industrialization and Peripheral Deindustrialization -- References -- Chapter 5 Core and Periphery from Cold War to Monetary Integration -- 5.1 Reconstruction of the European Core -- 5.2 From German Ordo- to International Neoliberalism: Anti-left Bias in the Enlargement Process -- 5.2.1 German Anti-communism and Western Integration -- 5.2.2 Pax Germanica Builds on Continuing Liberal Economic Paradigm.