PSCI150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Arab Nationalism, Hard Power
16 Dec 2019
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Criticisms of post-1945 american order: the order is actually based on terror. Fear prompts cooperation"s: us-led order was limited in scope. Some societies were on the ussr side and others were allies. China under mao: not always consensual. Us national interests came first: not always liberal. Military intervention: vietnam, nicaragua, cuba, iraq, and more: western order not exclusively a western creation. Latin american and e. europe state led capitalism: us manipulation. Measured in capabilities, influence, outcome a polar power attracts allies and partners. Unipolar: 1 state supreme first face: undisputed military economic coercive: second face: expand institutional order, third face: promote new common sense. Military dimension: us hard power unchallenged, russia is weak, china lays low, 1991 gulf war proves military dominance. Globalize the free market economy: expansion to emerging markets, latin america, africa, southeast asia, post-soviet states. Expand institutional basis of order: north american free trade agreement, asia-pacific economic cooperation (apec, world trade organization (wto)
