POL108 Lecture 1: Session 1 - 2017 Week 9 Lecture 1 - Sung-Young Kim
22 Aug 2018
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What is the study of ipe about: political science is about the study of power". Ir about study of power relations about power actors. Highly contested term a. but it is the ability to control/in uence actors and outcomes. Theorists starting to write about the making of a world economy and how large/small countries could experience different outcomes as a result of their economies and interdependence with the world economy. Types of protectionist policies were big causes of wwi and ii. General agreement of gatt, rules that constitute positive forms of trade behaviour. Certain things govts. could or could not do. In this liberal project, they also established the breads and woods agreement global trade order that was much more open and did away with mercantilist notions of the past. Led to 3 decades of world development poor countries got richer, those devastated after. How do you maintain national governance in time of interdependence.
