The Concept of the Periphery as a Constitutive Part of the Capitalist World System
Hartmut
Elsenhans
World Systems
Development
Imperialism
Euro-Arab Cooperation
Export-Led Manufacturing
The category "periphery" is useful for describing positions in the international system. The analytical content however, is limited: Under capitalist conditions, overcoming "underdevelopment"/peripheral positions in the world system do not depend on the availability of surplus. Instead, overcoming "underdevelopment" has been achieved by devaluation-driven, export-oriented manufacturing, and therefore, by deliberately accepting exploitation for achieving comparative advantage. With regards to the MENA region, this "East Asian strategy" seems unfit because of limited capacities in wage goods production, especially food.
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Marburg
Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg
2015
2015-11-03
2018-01-31
Text
article
urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-ep0003-2015-103-37937
Middle East - Topics + Arguments ;Vol 5 (2015)
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https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/2015/103/3793/3667.pdf
10.17192/meta.2015.5.3793
https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/2015/103/3793