Dependent Capitalisms in Contemporary Latin America and Europe

Aldo Madariaga is Assistant Professor at the School of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales. He is the author of Neoliberal Resilience: Lessons in Democracy and Development from Latin America and Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020), and the winner of the honorary mention for 2021 best book by the IPE section, International Studies Association (ISA).Stefano Palestini is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His work has been published in international journals such as World Politics, Governance and the Journal of International Relations and Development.

• Introduction. Dependency as a research program: from situations to mechanisms of dependency.- 1. A dependency perspective on the United States, China and Latin America.- 2. The deformation of the core by dependency relations: The case of Germany in Europe.- 3. Mechanisms of Dependence: Conceptualising the Latin American Dependency Research Program for the Analysis of European Capitalism.- 4. Who are the super-exploited? Gender, Race and the intersectional potentialities of dependency theory.- 5. The political economy of the post commodity boom crises in Latin America.- 6. Dependency, development and the politics of growth models in Europe’s peripheries.- 7. From situations of dependency to varieties of illiberalism:  the exhaustion of democratic dependency governance and the rise of illiberalism in Eastern Europe.- 8. Dependency, rent and the failure of neo-extractivism.- 9. Dependent Financialization and the construction of peripheral business-power in the Chilean pension system.- Conclusions: rethinking dependency, refining our analyticial tools.