HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Power Transition Theory, Geopolitics
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Radical revisionists; later generation of revisions; they talk about the importance of material interests for a country"s foreign policies. Strategic minerals; they want to link the possession of essential raw materials to a country"s international power standing- physical security. Even if you dismiss the vacancies trap u still need to be worried :) Small wars have the capability of sucking the whole world into; allies, contingency , Chinese leadership sees trump has the capability of destroying american allies- why they like him. Trumps promising trade war with china :) Chinese has lots of problems with vietnam ; vietnamese gov is talking as if it would not be a bad idea to create an alliance with washington- security. Chinese and japanese are a long way from getting over ww2. Us would be happy if the taiwanese voted to join mainland china. Provide an early approach to world politics; that put great emphasis on this thing called geography has on power.
