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Stare/nove periferije Evrope
Old/New Periphery of Europe

Author(s): Alpar Lošonc
Subject(s): Politics and society, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu & Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: crisis; normativity; center/periphery; politico-economic determinism; re-peripherization; structural assymetry; world system

Summary/Abstract: the author constrasts the normativity of europe with the center-periphery issue. He argues that the normativity of europe has been challenged by the center-periphery problem. In the first part of the article, the author discusses the normativity of europe and proposes a new concept – embeded normativity. In the second part, he presents several theories on the center-perifery relations and stresses the relevance of structural assymetries. In the third part, Central and eastern europe is compared to Latin america in three historic sequences. the last part is a summary of the arguemts and their relevance for the present crisis that can be understood as an ensemble of structural and systemic tendencies.

  • Issue Year: 5/2015
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 99-117
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian