POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Invisible Hand, Glasnost, Enclosure
Document Summary
Ideological confrontation of 2 different ideologies communism vs capitalism/liberalism. Geopolitics soviet union and capitalists and their allies and where they wer located and how that affected it, soviet union had the heartland, and that might take over the world. But that was rivalled by control of the oceans the west owned the oceans. Strategic dimension deterrence arms race between nato and warsaw pact nuclear arms race. Mad mututally assured destruction (they can destroy each other if they attacked each other) International dimension great powers and alliances and how alliances can shift. Europe the alliances kept people from attacking each other in 19th century. Cold war reintroduced the bipolar alliance system since wwi and wwii us vs soviet russia. Countries had to choose 1 of the sides to assure their own security. Alot of smaller countries joined asweel, not just strong ones. Several states didn"t join neither side. ,. made the non-aligned movement. (india didn"t wanna join britain or russian, iran, egypt,
