POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Realpolitik, Civil Society, Neocolonialism
20 Feb 2016
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The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures control or influence other countries, esp former dependencies. Complexity of international system: competition with others, many. Coordinating multiple actors with conflicting interests: g8 vs. g20 vs. those inevitably left out. In the post world war system: national sovereignty was ranked preeminent. That puts national organizations in a difficult position, because they too have to respect national sovereignty. In the north, it began with the creation of national forests and parks in the us and canada. It meant that you blocked off large areas of land for human activity to allow nature to run its course. We take these models for granted because their funded in north america. In the south, we don"t see the huge tracks of unoccupied land like the canadian north and the us. If people aren"t able to use the land effectively, no jobs or sources of income for them.
