POL 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kwame Nkrumah, Indentured Servant, Durban

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 540
• Professor: Tariq Khan

Document Summary

First world countries: higher income, industrialized, infrastructure, democracy, high std of living. Cold war period: 1st: democracy 2nd: communist 3rd: not part of communist or democracy countries. Higher per capita income (low growth, aging. Low per capita income (high growth and ___, population, unsustainable standards of living) youth dividend, more energy efficient) High levels of literacy and health achievement. Low levels of literacy and health achievement (on the decline?) (on the uprise) More conflict and violence (both within and between countries) Former colonies (china, india, brazil are dominant regional global ____) 2011-2015: china: 9. 5, india:8. 2, ethiopia:8. 1, mozambique:7. 7, tanzania: 7. 2. Imperialism: a broader term than colonialism, imperialism occurs when one country dominates another with the aim of controlling and/or exploiting the latter. The domination can be economic, political, social or cultural imperialism means empire building . Colonialism: the ownership and administration of one territory and people by another, as if the former were part of the latter.