Peripheral integration and disintegration in Europe: the ‘European dependency school’ revisited

In this contribution to the history of theory, the author reconsiders impact of the Latin American dependency paradigm on Europe. analysis does not deal with the reception of the Latin American school itself, the focus lies on elements of this school as were used to explain the European situation in the 1970s and 1980s. For that purpose, it delineates research networks and their of core-periphery relations in Europe. All these networks a critical attitude towards the old development paradigm. Some it development "from above" or "to the outside". A new paradigm to include strategic elements of a "selective spatial closure" and "self-reliance". For many, the European integration process played an role in their estimates of future developments. Much of this still seems relevant and topical today. The author considers it to take up the research agenda of the "European dependency ", to re-define it and adapt it to altered contemporary .