POLS 2880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Least Developed Countries, Eurocentrism, Power Politics
8 Sep 2017
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Week 9 global south: division of world into north and south, used to be first world vs third world, developed vs non-developed, still talking about the same thing, generally wealthy western states (with exceptions ex. Numbers between global gdp per capita in north vs south: in the north average about 30,000, in the south average about under 5,000$ Oil: more susceptible to deep troughs when resource prices go down or collapse, in the north women are fully participating citizens in civil and political society, in the south are not sometimes not even recognized as citizens. Colonialism: the spread of developed european countries taking over southern countries, first wave in 15th and 16th centuries lead by england, france, holland, First phase is post wwi 1918: o(cid:374)e of wilso(cid:374)"s (cid:1005)4 poi(cid:374)ts (cid:449)ere a(cid:271)out a(cid:374) e(cid:374)d to (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ial po(cid:449)ers, right to govern themselves free from external authority.
