POLS 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Planned Economy, Free Trade, Bandung Conference

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

Document Summary

States and nationalism in the global north legitimate use of physical force within a given territory . State: an entity that successfully claims the monopoly of the. Nationalism: the doctrine that the political unit (state) and the cultural unit (nation) should be congruent. Nationalism arose as a new phenomenon in many colonies in the colonial powers. exports. 20th century: issue ofidentity didn"t exist into the south. People and peoples started rejecting colonial and imperial bandages based on nationalistic arguments. Imperialism had forcefully integrated peoples and places into the world capitalist system of nation-states; people started asserting their nationalities. Nationalism as both an effect and a driver of decolonization. It served as a powerful unifying ideology, de-emphasizing class conflicts and stressing common positions vis- -vis colonial authorities. Goal of the south unification & independency. Unifying ideology, for all decolonized people. de-emphasizing other ridges and divides within the society nationalism unified all sorts of people,