GEOG 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Warsaw Pact, Domino Theory, Geopolitics
9 Feb 2020
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Communism: usa vs. ussr, nato vs. warsaw pact. Cold war (1945-1989: anti-communists vs. anti-capitalists, alliances to either side across the world, lead to multiple proxy wars. Modern geopolitics: end of bi-polar world order, focus on geo-economic and geo-political rather than geo-territorial, rise of supranational and subnational global organizations. Geopolitics as geo-economics: rise of competing economic cores, prospects of hegemony and stable international relations in the face of globalization, challenges to the nation-state. Us geopolitical vision: prudence and realism, dangerous era in need of containment, reassert us hegemony, confront anarchy, ex. Invasion of panama, war on drugs, gulf war i. Bush sr. administration geopolitics: defend saudi arabia and kuwait (oil, protect oil reserves and oil supplies (remembrance of 1970"s oil crisis, stabilize the middle east (prevent domino theory) Russia"s geopolitical vision: georgian civil war (1991, communist revolts, russo-chechen war (1994-2014, russo-georgian war, putinism, authoritarian capitalism, irredentism, russia"s war on terror .
