ABSTRACT
This chapter describes González Casanova’s theoretical approach to the debate on development, his clarification of the influence of developmentalism on his own thinking, and his critique of the dialectic between development and underdevelopment. Likewise, this chapter gathers his approaches to the asymmetrical relations between the center and the periphery and the hierarchies that divide the world between the industrialized North and the colonized South, although the reference to the Global South, in the sense discussed by Giovanni Arrighi, is not found in his work. González Casanova distinguishes two theoretical approaches to the theory of dependency, based on the structure of the market, the role of the State, the power of the armed forces, violence, and its impact on the exercise of democracy: a) the convergence between the historical-structural vision of Cardoso and Faletto and the structuralism of Raúl Prebisch in the economic and social thought of Economic and social overview of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); b) the Marxist critique of this theory of dependency.
