POLS 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mercosur, North–South Divide, Doha Development Round

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2080
• Professor: Steffi Hamann

Document Summary

The interdisciplinary study of interactions or relationships between production and trade, and power an politics. Gpe scholars are interested in the play of international and domestic politics and economies. Something that is debated a lot in the political economy is globalization. Dominating global trend in contemporary politics and trade. Increasingly close international integration of goods & services, labour and capital. Factors of production, labour, capital, are all forms of globalization. Neo-imperialism (the well developed countries can still attain resources that they now control through multinational corporations) Aim: lower trade barriers to boost int trade. From 2011 2014 we went from 41% of people with bank accounts (in developing world) Men are known more for spending money on bigger, symbols of status" to prove their manhood. Modernization theory said to attract investors, you should invest money and then they themselves will provide power grid, to have it in their country.