@article{article_21110, title={Passive Globalization and the Failure of the European Union’s Lisbon Strategy, 2000-2010: Some New Cross-National Evidence}, journal={Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations}, volume={9}, pages={1–91}, year={2010}, author={Tausch, Arno}, abstract={<p>The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of dependency theory and world systems <br />theory for eight dimensions of development. The main emphasis is on indicators of sustainable <br />development, and our essay comprises in all 36 main dependent variables. They are part of the <br />dimensions of democracy, gender justice, high quality tertiary education, economic growth during the <br />outgone economic cycle until 2008 and projected economic growth after 2009, the environment, <br />human development, employment, and social cohesion on a global scale by a new. Our 175 nation <br />analysis, using 20 main predictors of development tries to confront the very basic pro-globalist <br />assumptions of the “Lisbon process”, the policy target of the European leaders since the EU’s Lisbon <br />Council meeting in March 2000 to make Europe the leading knowledge-based economy in the world <br />with a “globalization critical perspective”. A realistic and politically useful analysis of the “Lisbon <br />process” has to be a “Schumpeterian” approach. We analyze the “Lisbon performance” of the world <br />economy by multivariate, quantitative means, looking into the possible contradictions that might exists <br />between the dependent insertion into the global economy and other goals of the “Lisbon process”. <br />Lowering the comparative price levels and increasing the dependency from the large, transnational <br />corporations, as correctly predicted by Latin American social science of the 1960s and 1970s, emerges <br />as one of the most serious development blockades, confronting Europe. It also emerges that failing to <br />develop Europe’s own MNC headquarter status in the global economy has very negative effects on <br />development performance. The increase in military expenditures, proposed in article 42,3 of the new <br />EU Lisbon Treaty, is another stumbling block against development. We also present a concluding <br />factor analytical perspective, which again re-iterates the importance of avoiding a “race to the bottom” <br />as an “alternative” in Europe. </p> <p> <br />Key words: Lisbon process, European Union, Latin America, Dependency theory </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Yalova Üniversitesi}