Deals with the intersection of issues associated with globalization and the dynamics of core-periphery relations. It places these debates in a large and vital context asking what the relations between cores and peripheries have in forming our vision of what constitutes globalization and what...

1. Variations on a theme : Iceland, Greece, and Ireland's road toward the crisis -- 2. The fall of 2008 : from the financial crisis to the crisis of the euro -- 3. The economic causes : contemporary European capitalism :the financialized, deregulated market system in the globalized world economy...