POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Developing Country, Cash Flow, Totalitarianism
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Provides some historical examples of gg to show that gg is not entirely new. E. g. land trade & mongol empire, hanseatic league, However gg has always lagged behind technology. Difference: no surrender of sovereignty, no compromise for vital economic interests, less acute dangers. Power is shifting from north and west to south and east. Arguments that as power shifts, liberalism will disappear as rising powers put forth their own ideas about world order especially as they are still developing with colonial pasts and different problems than advanced capitalist countries. Argues instead that liberal order is not disappearing and emerging powers merely want a place in it with more authority. Two projects have shaped world order: westphalian which addressed realist problems and liberalism. Address the problems of hobbes to get the opportunities of locke. Rising states have deep interests in open rules based system as it gives them more access to more markets.
