GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Great Game, Nationstates, Structural Adjustment
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Resolve world problems within system of nation-states,coordinate behaviour (ie: un) Neither government or economic profit making sector. Started by individual, social movement, seeking to improve international life (ie: volunteering abroad. Refers to struggle for power + land ownership between colonial officials in late 19th/early. Respected sovereignty in theory, but competed for expansion. Gave rise to league of nations after its end in treaty of versailles. Us refused to join, germany + japan withdrew after public condemnation for. It did not hold the large world powers within it. Period between ww1 and ww2 involving protectionism (national interest, for example, through tariffs, on goods to develop national industries for strength) Great depression (1930"s) reverberated around the increasingly economically interconnected globe. Biggest war yet (over 50 countries involved, 50 million dead) Power: ability to get what you want. Soft power: persuasion of thought through political/cultural/moral ideals.
