POLS 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Konstantin Chernenko, Politburo Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev
3 Dec 2017
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Week 6 - the liberal age: humanitarianism after the cold war. Explaining the end of the cold war: soviet leadership and changing soviet politics. The soviet invasion of afghanistan, chernobyl (1986: the reagan doctrine. Us pressure on saudis to increase oil production, putting downward pressure on the price of oil, a major soviet export: revolutions of 1989. Poland"s solidarity movement,czechoslovakia, east germany, romania, bulgaria: break away republics. The baltic states of lithuania, estonia and latvia. Political fallout: the new world order: the pressure cooker argument. End of the cold war had the effect of unleashing new sub-national con icts along religious and ethnic lines. E. g former yugoslavia, rwanda: new security threats. Environmental security (the earth summit), human security (copenhagen and beijing), food security: amore interventionist un. Protection and prevention in the form of democratization (liberal democracy), (liberal) human rights, state building and the responsibility to protect: lpg. Liberalization, privatization, globalization in the form of structural adjustment and neoliberal reform.
