Peter Evans - Imperialism, Dependency, Dependent Development

Question 1

What work did Peter Evans publish?

Answer 1

Imperialism, Dependency and Dependent Development

Question 2

What is a dependent country?

Answer 2

one whose development is conditioned by the development and expansion of another

Question 3

What is dependence

Answer 3

situation in which rate and direction of accumulation are externally conditioned

Question 4

According to Evans, what is the relation between the core, periphery and the semi-periphery?

Answer 4

• relation isn’t nation-nation but: center elite - dependent elite
• international product life cycle
• development of selected dependent countries = semi-periphery

Question 5

According to Evans, what do TNCs lead to?

Answer 5

Disarticulation and exclusion of the masses:

• capital-intensive technologies in modern sector -> exclusion of the masses of the periphery
• not simply profit-making capitalist firms:
  
  • > remove control over production
  • > extend alienation across political borders
• reinforce disarticulation:
  
  • > develop infrastructure that only benefits them
  • > keep knowledge and tech in center
  • > products aimed at dependent elites

Question 6

According to Evans, what is the state role with TNCs

Answer 6

• unless a state intervenes = no effective sponsor for peripheral industrialization
• states must coerce TNCs
• but: repression to preserve benefits of local bourgeoisie= disarticulation and exclusion of the masses