POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dependency Theory, Non-Interventionism, Samir Amin
14 Mar 2016
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Colonialism, neocolonialism, and dependency coninued poli227 lecture notes. Massie disrupion of indigenous socieies: spliing of land and culture. Concentraion of wealth and power: roots in land tenure paters, ability to maintain economic stability. Subordinate inserion in internaional system: primary product exports: Irony: china is a problem only for mexico: parallels with spain at end of is experience as colonizer. State-society interlace: la: state legiimaion in doubt (benedict anderson, naionalist nature, elsewhere: the ariicial naion-state . Segmentaion of ciizenship: portuguese and spanish split, did not idenify/connected with the state, between races, classes, and factors that are unusually divisive in developed countries . Post world war 2: principle of non-intervenion and the end of colonialism, creaion of new naion states, principle of sovereignty, cold war"s zero-sum game. One winner is at the total expense of the loser. Exercising control over other countries even though they are not colonies, eg. puppet states, satellite states, philippines.
