POL326Y1 Lecture : January 7, Groups and Elections.pdf
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Bush senior there was a move towards free-trade agreement, us. January 7, 2014: one way of understanding trade and eco policy and its impact on foreign policy was articulated by walter mead: the idea of hard power and soft power. Its ability to attract other countries into the us economics and then traps them in it. Once a particular international system becomes involved with the us it is hard to get out without a large sum. Chinese military was organized into chariots and didnt know how to deal with it but they did. They surrendered, they gave the barbarians what they wanted (mongolia) is goods and various forms of textiles. The chinese gave them everything they watned, the long term result of that is that these northern tribes became dependent on china, then they ended up controlling them instead of being controlled by them.