A World Systems Perspective on Lisbon Criteria

23 maart 2007 | In his book City on the Hill, Arno Tausch presents a world systems perspective for the ongoing debate about the European failure to meet the Lisbon criteria of catching up with the US by 2010. Arno Tausch is a political scientist of Innsbruck. While the dismal performance of Europe again is documented in this paper, the world system perspective is relatively novel in the debate and argues that Europe in the long run becomes similar to the typical Latin American countries during the “internationalization of the internal markets” that began in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970.