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This book revisits the forgotten history of the ‘European Dependency¬†School’ in the 1970s and 1980s, explores core-periphery relations in¬†the European integration process and the crises of the contemporary¬†European Union from a dependency perspective, and draws lessons for¬†alternative development paths. Was disintegration of the European Union foretold? With the benefit of¬†hindsight, the critical analysis of the European integration process¬†by researchers from the ‘European Dependency School’ is most timely.¬†¬†The current framework of the European Union seems to be haunted by¬†issues that had been very familiar to the researchers of the ‘European¬†Dependency School’, such as a lack of a common and balanced industrial¬†policy. How do the situations compare? What lessons can be learnt for¬†alternative development policies in contemporary Europe? Weissenbacher tackles these issues, which are of relevanceto all¬†interested in political economy, political science, development¬†studies and regional development.