SOCY 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Scapegoating, World Trade Organization, Globalism
4 Apr 2016
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The modern nation state: peace of westphalia (1648) Based on principles of sovereignty and territoriality. All states have equal right to self-determination. Individual states make their own laws, settle their own disputes. Cross-border disputes are private matters centralization of political power. Global system of collective security: league of nations, eventually united nations. The rise of a global political order. The political role of saps: choosing the side of good capitalism, not bad communism, impacts local political landscape. Contrast between local scene and global template. The rise of neoliberalism: conservative politics, threat of communism in cold war, intersection of the economic and political. The morphing of a new political order one of nationalism. Neoconservatism: intersection of the economic and political, follow a liberalization agenda, but value the intrusive capabilities of government, the u. s. "s surveillance lapsed on 9/11, now their security is even more global and power. Imperial globalism: clinton serbia, iraq.
