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Rudy Weissenbacher ()
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Rudy Weissenbacher: WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Core-Periphery Divide in the European Union, 2019, pp 1-13 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Dudley Seers[aut]Seers, Dudley, the eminent representative of a group of researchers I subsume as ‘European Dependency SchoolEuropean Dependency School (EDS)’ (EDS) in this book, emphasized the importance of core–periphery relationsCore–periphery relations in Europe and for the Western European integration processEuropean integration process in as early as the 1970s. Core–periphery relationsCore–periphery relations in development studiesDevelopment studies reflect uneven socio-spatial developmentsSocio-spatial development. Behind the appearance of spatial hierarchy between regions and statesStates in ‘late’ or ‘monopoly’ or ‘transnational’ capitalism, there lies a matrix of actors’ relations with unevenly distributed political, economic, and military power such as governments, classesClasses, and transnational companies. These uneven power relations make core–periphery relations a complex issue.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28211-0_1

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