GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Geopolitics, Economic Globalization, North American Free Trade Agreement
3 Mar 2017
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Geopolitics: geopolitics: the study of the importance of space in understanding international relations, several current important geopolitical dimensions: Consider: the cold war and superpowers began with 2 superpowers but only left with one (united states) Consider: economic globalization and concentration of power in global alliances (i. e. nafta, eu, etc. ) Consider: cultural and economic (cid:498)imperialism(cid:499) muslim conflicts, due to. Consider: the (cid:498)asia pivot(cid:499) and china increase of focus on asia and turn away from europe, belief asia/china might become next superpower their view of western world. State stability/instability: modern countries: a series of geopolitical forces working over a period of time. These geopolitical forces result in: the bringing together of (potentially diverse) nations into one (multinational) sovereign state. Ex: canada (french, english), belgium, switzerland (french, english, Italian, romanian), etc: the breaking apart of (potentially similar) nations into 2 (or more) sovereign states.
