AG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Autocracy, Space Race, Peloponnesian War
21 Jul 2020
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Mcneills: united states emerged from world war ii as the rst global superpower . The international regime became based on american economic and military power. The ability to make others do what you want them to do and which they were not inclined to do in the rst place. Dr. zhivago book = the soviets were furious when it was published and the cia helped to popularise it. Good example to examine the cultural struggle of the cold war. Weakness of the westphalia order: procedural focus, lack of content. Wilsonian and the american world order: self-determination, democracy, international law, league of nations. At the same time, main features of the second half of the 20th century. Opening of markets, free trade, surge in exports through new technologies -> increase in circulation of information, money, goods, and technology. Stability of nancial system based on new economic organisations and agreements: bretton. The united states after the second world war.
