POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Social Forces, Political Philosophy, Prison Notebooks

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 1101
• Professor: Daniel Pierre- Antoine

Document Summary

Wallernstein offers a new system approach to the ir realm. Wallernstein the state centric model inappropriate to explain core-periphery dichotomy. Unit of analysis is the capitalist system itself not the state. Unit of analysis the global internationally operating market the capitalist world system. Usa, third world economies, the socialist u , chi(cid:374)a, cu(cid:271)a are (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered (cid:862)(cid:272)apitalist(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they trade in a world market. Stages of the evolution of the world economy: the point de depart (1000) Italy: genoa, venice (italian trading post empire), supremacy of the southern center. Beginning of colonization in africa by portugal. The triumph of great britain (xviii) pax britannica. Development of the low scale artisan intensive agriculture centralized state with a parliament. Industrial revolution colonial expansion: the hegemony of the usa -1945 the end of the wwii the marshall plan and the cold war the end of the us-soviet rivalry. States and ios are tools of the oppressor.