POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Economy Of The Soviet Union, Glasnost, Domino Theory
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Germany and the 3 d"s (denazification, demilitarization, democratization) > collective guilt. It"s because its politically weak; its allies were countries that had occupied or participated in the fascist governments in eur. Su competed very well in economics i. e. nuclear weapons. Berlin wall was built because people from e ger would flee to w ger because of better standard of living. 3x # of engineering graduates in ussr than us. Geopolitical (study of interaction between geology and politics) dimension: Halford mackinder v. alfred theyer mahan are 2 practitioners/theoreticians of geopolitics. Mackinder and mahan tried to explain global dominance based on dominance. Mahan argued that in order to dominate the planet by controlling the. Eurasian heartland was pointless because great britain was already dominant without controlling the eurasian heartland; the control of the oceans is much more important; control the rimland, control the most important ports. And this is the area the british rather controlled well.
