“A half century after Cardoso and Faletto penned their foundational
Dependencia y Desarrollo, Madariaga and Palestini have done comparative political economy an invaluable service by bringing together a wide-ranging set of contributions extending and reinvigorating the dependency perspective. From Stallings’ elegant explication of the effects of China’s rise to Scheiring’s creative parsing of the connections between dependence and authoritarianism in Hungary, the volume offers an incontrovertible demonstration of the dependency approach’s continued vitality and usefulness.”
-Peter Evans, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley.
“This book constitutes an important contribution to the intellectual comeback of dependency thinking. In addition to enhancing our understanding of the diverse mechanisms and manifestations of dependence within contemporary global capitalism, in particular within the context of Europe and Latin