POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Media Of Syria, Geopolitics

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 227
• Professor: Philip Oxhorn

Document Summary

Second generaion reforms: governance, controlling corrupion, service delivery and targeted assistance, decentralizaion: potenial for democracy, eg. porto alegre. The posiive potenial of managing impact of free trade: low income/low producivity, uneducated labour force = low value added . States must play a role: controlling volaility, weakening the impact, pushing policies, state-society synergy: outcome becomes more posiive, minimizing the consequences of internaional exposure. The importance of the private sector in development: jobs. The danger of bloated states: creaion of resources. Us qualitaive easing, the end of the super commodity boom . State strength and repressive capacity not linked: syria today. Key: resources to pay for repression, eg. Middle east renier states: cold war allies. The us in afghanistan and iraq: loyalty. Of the repressive apparatus: will to repress: The collapse of east european communism compared to tiananmen. Repression used to mask weakness (which they may be)