PO370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Essentialism, Chosen People, Primordialism
Document Summary
Decolonization and the cold war in southeast asia: Decolonization across almost every region by late 1950s; after cold war. Warfare continued between different states in the regions until 80s. Us search for markets and resources for japan. Americans decided in 1947, they changed their minds what should happen to japan after wwii. They decided they wanted to actually help and promote japan to rebuild itself and re- industrialize. They realized japan needed raw materials to import and markets to sell the products it makes to export. Problem: that role had traditionally been played by china, but the. American"s did not want japanese to trade with china because china was turning communist. American"s wanted the states of sea to take the role in japan"s economy that china previously played. Neo-colonial relationship: american goal was to turn sea into another. Latin america where political nationalism was tolerated as long as it didn"t interfere with the colonial trade relations.
