POSC 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Contemporary Realism
29 Mar 2016
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Post war realists believed economic cooperaion had to be enforced by dominant states: could reduce threats and conlict. Economic success of germany and japan: opec, global economic slowdown, financial instability: end of dollar standard. D tente decline of the cold war result: realists begin to pay more atenion to economics: declining economic cooperaion in north and era of the new protecionism . 1980s realists argue, poliics sill dominant over economics economic cooperaion becoming more diicult because of declining us power. Hegemony: (in realism) leadership, or dominance, of internaional system by single state. Hst assumes: like liberalism, free trade and globalizaion good in theory, but unlikely to occur because states mistrust one another under condiions of anarchy, free trade and economic cooperaion seen as public goods . Reading of the dependant variable : empirical record. If us had declined by 1980s, why globalizaion. Post 9/11 return to emphasis on security and military conlict.
