Presentation on Dependency Theory for PS 212 Culture and Politics in the Third World at the University of Kentucky, Summer 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Instructor.

1. Dependency Theory Dr. Christopher S. Rice

2. “ Voices from the Periphery”

3. Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA)

5. The American debacle in Vietnam and the eruption of major racial troubles in the mid-1960s, followed by chronic inflation, the devaluation of the American dollar and the general loss of America’s self-confidence in the early 1970s ended the moral conviction on which modernization theory had come to base itself…

6. … A new type of theory became popular among younger sociologists, one that reversed all the old axioms. America became the very model of evil, and capitalism, which had been seen as the cause of social progress, became a sinister exploiter and the main agent of poverty in most of the world. Imperialism, not backwardness and lack of modernity, was the new enemy.” Daniel Chirot (1981)

8. Industrial Centers US, UK, France Peripheral Nations Latin America Industrial Goods Food, Raw Materials

10. Failure of the ECLA

11. “ The purchasing power was limited to certain social strata, and the domestic market showed no tendency to expand after its needs had been fulfilled. The import dependency had simply shifted from consumption goods to capital goods. The conventional export goods had been neglected in the general frenzy of industrialization, the result was acute balance-of-payment problems in one country after another. The optimism of growth changed into deep depression.” Blomstrom and Hettne (1984)

12. Neo-Marxism

14. The “Development of Underdevelopment” (Andre Frank)

15. CORE (“Metropolis”) PERIPHERY (“Satellites”) Industrial Goods Food, Raw Materials

16. Hypotheses based on the Metropolis-Satellite Model

21. The Structure of Dependence

22. The relationship between two or more countries “assumes the form of dependence when some countries (the dominant ones) can expand and be self-starting, while other countries (the dependent ones) can do this only as a reflection of that expansion.” Theotonio Dos Santos

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24. Colonial Dependence

25. Financial-Industrial Dependence

26. Technological-Industrial Dependence

27. Policy Implications

28. #1: Redefining “Development”

29. #2: Politics of Self-Reliance

30. #3: “Talkin ‘Bout a Revolution”

31. Critique of Dependency Theory

32. #1: Ideology vs. Methodology

33. #2: The Concept of “Dependency”

34. #3: Policy Implications