POL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marshall Plan, Execution Unit, Ministry Of International Trade And Industry

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 100
• Professor: Loganathan Masilamani

Document Summary

Developed world: industrialized nations that are part of a structurally integrated system of global capitalism; includes the countries of western europe and north america, japan, australia, and new. Zealand; aka developed countries (dcs), industrialized world, the north, and the first world. Countries that benefited in an integrated way from post-war (period after wwii) economic developments. Assessing similarities and differences among countries regarding types of governance or political leadership based on: time period, system type, geographical region. Case study approach: canada, us, japan, europe. After wwii, some countries developed quickly and integrated. Focus on standard of living; (cid:498)welfare state(cid:499) Connection to bretton woods agreement and the new political economy. Short form name for the united nations monetary and financial conference held in bretton. Major institutions like the international monetary fund (imf) and the world bank (wb) created there: wb: international bank for reconstruction and development (ibrd) Developing countries saps (open up economy, sell itself )