![Sam Parry](https://profiles-cardiff.imgix.net/attachments/3386?w=200&h=200&auto=format&crop=faces&fit=crop&q=90")
Overview
A current PhD student based at Cardiff Business School researching the viability of using the core-periphery paradigm, dependency theory and world-systems theory to locate Wales and other European stateless nations within the world system.
Research
My research hopes to uncover how the relationship between core, semi-periphery and periphery works on an intra-state level and within stateless nations. The relationship between (under)development and the core-periphery paradigm between states is relatively well developed, especially in Dependency and World Systems perspectives. However, this relationship within states, especially those that can be considered multi-national - such as the UK, Spain and Italy - is less advanced. My work will attempt to enrich the conversation surrounding the function of such areas within their respective states, in Europe, and within the global capitalist system more generally.
Recent work:
Wales, Underdevelopment and the World System:
https://4e738bf1-3b89-467b-8f45-de5511b6665d.filesusr.com/ugd/ec1faf_ab0be0eed3014641a727046348f8d8e0.pdf
The European Union: A New Era in European Imperialism:
https://www.peacelandbread.com/post/the-european-union-a-new-era-in-european-imperialism
Wales, Development and Foreign Direct Investment
Book Chapter Forthcoming