The Core-Periphery Divide in the European Union. A Dependency Perspective

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
	5.3  Integration of Unequal Partners
	5.4  The Absence of Common Industrial Policies
	5.5  Corporate Integration and the European Division of Labor
	5.6  Toward a Monetary Union: The European Monetary System (EMS)
	5.7  ‘True’ Integration or a ‘Sort of Colonial System’? A Puerto Rico Scenario?
	References
Chapter 6 Alternative Strategies in the ‘European Dependency School’
	6.1  Toward a New Development Paradigm ‘from Below’
	6.2  Between Reform and Utopia: Policy Considerations of Such a New Paradigm
	References
Chapter 7 Paradigm Lost? ‘Endogenous Development’ Replaces ‘Selective Self-Reliance’
	References
Chapter 8 Persistent Core–Periphery Divide in the EU
	8.1  Core–Semiperiphery–Periphery in the Contemporary European Union
	8.2  A Ladder Without Upper Rungs: Commodity Chains and the Confusion of Industrial Development with Development
	8.3  State Governments and TNC
	8.4  The Core–Periphery System in the EU: A Persistent Structure
	References
Chapter 9 Capitalism and Beyond?
	9.1  Capitalist Crisis of the 1970s and Financialized Restoration
	9.2  Capitalism, Crisis, and the Dependency Paradigm
	9.3  Restoration of the Development Paradigm ‘from Above’: Authoritarian Liberalism in a Hayekian Universe
	9.4  The Terminal Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
	9.5  The Puzzle of System Change with Pieces from EDS?
	References
Correction to: The Core-Periphery Divide in the European Union
	Correction to: R. Weissenbacher, The Core-Periphery Divide in the European Union, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28211-0
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index