HE Qingqian：Accelerating or Weakening? Revisiting Core-Periphery Relations in the European Union——An Analysis Based on Global Value Chains
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This article discusses the development of divergences between the EU core and periphery members in the past 30 years from the perspective of Global Value Chain (GVC), and explains the reasons behind it. Based on the UNCTAD-Eora Global Value Chain database, this article measures the GVC influence index of EU member states from 1990 to 2015. The results show that in the past 30 years, from the perspective of the GVC, there is a converging trend between the EU core and periphery members, in which the core member states’ choice of offshore production and outsourcing strategy in the process of globalization and the periphery member states’ integration into German value chain in the process of EU integration have played an important role. This article provides a new way to understand the core-periphery relationship within the EU both theoretically and methodically.