GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bretton Woods Conference, World Trade Organization, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade
Document Summary
Gs 101 - a: lecture: tuesday, november 7th, and thursday, november 9th: Three worlds of development: ideological war between: Establishment of welfare state : government intervention in social economic policies. Bretton woods conference: birth of fledgling international organizations - world bank, imf, Post wwii: a world divided by nation-states, emergence of postcolonial nation-states. The cold war, did not lead to direct violent confrontation between the two superpowers (usa, Framework of cold war regulated or contained conflict to a certain extent. But it did lead to hot wars , actual violent conflict around the world, projected conflict into other regions. Colonialism: direct rule over others by means of colonial administrators. Imperialism: ruling over others by indirect means, ex. Rule through native-elites, rule through a global integrated system of economic domination. The colonial wars were too expensive and the metropoles could no longer afford it. Also, loss of european global leadership in view of world wars and holocaust and colonial repressions.
