A Propos of the Euro-Zone crisis: From ‘Uneven and Combined Development’ (UCD) to ‘Global Fault-lines’ (GF)

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A Propos of the Euro-Zone crisis: From ‘Uneven and Combined Development’ (UCD) to ‘Global Fault-lines’ (GF)

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Author(s): Vassilis K. Fouskas , Constantine Dimoulas

Publication date (Print): September 2013

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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.

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Vassilis K. Fouskas

Constantine Dimoulas

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Publication date (Print): September 2013

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

Pages: 110-135

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Professor of International Politics & Economics and the Director of the Centre for the Study of States, Market & People (STAMP) at the Business School of the University of East London. E-mail: v.fouskas@ 123456uel.ac.uk

Lecturer in Social Administration and Evaluation of Social Programmes at Panteion University, Athens, E-mail: kdimoul@ 123456inegsee.gr

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