Full Description
One of the central claims of dependency theory - the nearly dominate framework adopted by the entire discipline of development studies since the 1960s - was that the yoke of imperial powers, especially the United States, weighed so heavily as to preclude the possibility of nations in the Third World becoming peer competitors on the global market. But what does the growing economic might of regional superpowers like Brazil mean for these views?
Contents
Foreword
Carlos Eduardo Martins
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1 Dependency Theory in the Post-1945 Development Literature of Latin America
2 Marini's Marxism and Dependency Theory Today
3 Neo-imperialism and Neo-dependency: Two Sides of the Same Historical-Political Process
4 Sub-imperialism and Dependency
5 The United States and Brazil: Antagonistic Cooperation
6 Brasil Potência vs. Sub-imperialism
7 Dictatorship, Democracy and the State of the Fourth Power
8 Sub-imperialism and the Contemporary Capitalist Crisis
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
