POL327Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Russian Empire, Cyprus Dispute, Arab Spring
17 Feb 2017
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Turf war between bureaucracies and branches in american politics after the recent election of dt. Soviet union crucial component in justifying the maintenance of american foreign policy: fear of communist expansion, crucial for military and intelligence establishment. Large military and its various dependence was an economic policy and political security strategy: marshall plan and national security council, motivated by domestic economic needs and justified by overblown threat posed by soviet union. Expansion of nato eastward as a consequence of russian expansion. 3 different forces acting on turkish state: conflict with islamic state and terrorism in the middle east. Attack on new years day: division of population and kurdish minority. Key divide in turkey: secularism, religious differences. Ottoman empire consisted of numerous religions committed to islam but tolerant of other religious minorities: dismemberment of ottoman empire after wwi. France and britain, the league of nations, created the states in middle.
