Hi Rob! It is a good question/challenge. I agree with you: the 60s/70s exemplars can be somewhat stale.
On the other hand: that's part of the point, too. The Dos Santos, Frank, Rodney, Amin, Valenzuela/Valenzuela style arguments need to be understood historiographically (i.e., responses to the modernization/developmentalist types); and they morphed/mutated/evolved into the dependent development approaches and, more recently, globalization's discontents. But your point is still a good one: the need to give students contemporary presentations of the arguments. One reading that is explicit in its structuralism is Robert Went's Globalisation: Neoliberal Challenge, Radical Responses (Pluto, 2000). It is excerpted as "Globalization Under Fire" in Goddard, Cronin & Dash, eds., International Political Economy: State-Market Relations in a Changing Global Order (Lynne Rienner, 2003, 2nd ed.) A second excerpted in the same edited volume is Charles Gore, "The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries," World Development 28:3, 2000, 789-804. It offers an argument on behalf of a "Southern Consensus." I used them last fall, and I think students found them useful. I'd be curious to read what others have used. Best regards, Greg ******************************** Gregory W. White Department of Government Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts 01063 USA tel:413-585-3542 fax:413-585-3389 >>> "Robert Darst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/21/05 7:05 PM >>> Here's a poser: I'm looking for a reasonably contemporary presentation of structural dependency theory (i.e., the idea that national economic development is primarily determined by a country's position in the international distribution of wealth and power) that will be accessible to first-years and sophomores. I feel silly assigning pieces from the 60s and early 70s--that's so, like, ANCIENT--yet I haven't come across a clear presentation of this theory in the anti-globalization literature (though it often lurks in the background). Suggestions, anyone? Thanks, Rob Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
