A Propos of the Euro-Zone crisis: From 'Uneven and Combined Development' (UCD) to 'Global Fault-lines' (GF). (1st September 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Journal of global faultlines. Volume 1:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 110
• Page End: 135
• Publication Date: 2013-09-01
• Subjects: World politics -- Periodicals; Geopolitics -- Periodicals; Globalization -- Periodicals; 327.101
• DOI: 10.13169/jglobfaul.1.1.0110
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2054-2089

Abstract

Abstract : This article advances a crisis theory of financialisation and imperial geo-politics in order to recast key concepts and causal parameters related to the sources of debt and the way in which the Euro-Atlantic area is in danger of complete disintegration. It juxtaposes the concept of 'uneven and combined development' (UCD) to that of 'global fault-lines' (GF), showing the advantages enjoyed by the latter with the inclusion of geo-political and security dimensions as co-constitutive explanatory variables in the understanding of economic crises in general and of the Euro-zone crisis in particular.