GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: North American Free Trade Agreement, Geopolitics, Economic Globalization
11 Jan 2017
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Geopolitics: the study of the importance of space in understanding international relations. Several current important geopolitical dimensions: consider: the cold war (russia/usa) and superpower, consider: economic globalization and concentration of power in global alliances (i. e. nafta, eu, etc, consider: colonialism and development i. e. africa. Didn"t represent them but represented england which stopped them from developing: consider: cultural and economic imperialism (e. g. christianity vs. Islam: consider: the asia pivot and china. Focusing on asia and turning away from europe. Believe china and asia could become the next super power. Modern countries: a series of geopolitical forces working over a period of time. These geopolitical forces result in: bringing together of (potentially diverse) nations into one (multinational) sovereign state, e. g. canada, belgium, switzerland, etc, breaking apart of (potentially similar) nations into two (or more) sovereign states, e. g. czechoslovakia and yugoslavia. Such forces are always present for every country.
