Dependency theory: continuities and discontinuities in development studies

@article{Caporaso1980DependencyTC,  title={Dependency theory: continuities and discontinuities in development studies},  author={James A. Caporaso},  journal={International Organization},  year={1980},  volume={34},  pages={605 - 628},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:153535159}}
Interpretations in this book attempt to characterize, in a general manner, the history of that diversity [i.e. diversity of domestic conditions, of local class structures, state organization, and of the timing and mode of insertion into the global system]. Of course, there are common factors in capitalism which affect all economies under consideration and which constitute the starting point of the analysis. But it is the diversity within unity [emphasis mine] that explains historical process… 

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