POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Economic Globalization, Deng Xiaoping, Four Modernizations
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> simplifying by focusing on what matters and ignoring what doesn"t. What is important and what is not: democracy and war, is the world becoming more democratic and more peaceful, francis fukuyama (something was happening ie. the tearing down of the berlin. > the big ideas, for each age you study the big events: fukuyama, hegel was right but he was a bit off, nazi and communism would still pose a challenge to liberal democracy. The world has changed: clash of civilizations (an examination of huntington"s arguments, end of the cold war, what is going to happen once the berlin wall comes down. It is a really long time and calming it has end is a short view. He is not just telling a story of the past and the future. Huntington believes that much but he does not believe the end of the ideas.
