POL327Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lathen, Gunboat Diplomacy, Triangular Trade
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Us foreign policy is meant to promote democracy. Western euro countries bot htheir interventions in both world wars, they did establish and designed stable democracies. In the case of western germany and japan. Japan however emerged as a single party state. The us sees certain regions as ready for democray, and others as not ready as much. The best place to look is latin america where the us has the least amount of constraints. La was the region in which dependency theory first evolved as a challenge to other theories such as liberalism and realism. This is no accident, that dependency theory largely worked in la. La was dependent on euro countries at first, and it reflected the interest of euros in regards to resources. Spain and portugal use their possenssions in the western hemisphere to enrich themselves, and to solve domestic problems.