PSCI150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Domino Theory, American Exceptionalism, Complete Control

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI150
• Professor: Aaron Ettinger

Document Summary

Incompleteness of the order: it is never as a completed order as we make it out to be. On top of this, it is also a competing order, and we often forget it. Obligations of the order: the us is paying too much for the order, they are putting too much without receiving as much. Misreading of the order: there have been changes in the order, particularly after the decolonization period (?) The us had enormous capability to influence the west : economic, military . Embedded liberalism build rules while allowing some flexibility in domestic systems (?) American exceptionalism: the woman in the picture is kind of the image of the us after the iiww. They represent democracy and hhrr (esto lo he puesto yo) Downplaying us weakness - african american cultural ambassadors. It shows the state can utilize things, even if it is done in a very manipulative way. Soviets had soft power of their own space program.