GEOG 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anti-Imperialism, Geopolitics, World-Systems Theory
Document Summary
Hegemony - refers to domination over the world economy, exercised - through a combination of economic, military, financial, and cultural. The colonization that accompanied european expansion is tied to the evolution of world leadership cycles - countries dominate globally, setting the terms for many economic and cultural practices and imposing their ideologies - hegemony. Growing european global presence restructured the political geographies of many regions. Britain becomes the dominant hegemonic world power - controls the world economy through the gold standard, most countries forced to globalize and adapt to the world economy follow a british model - literature, art, language, etc. spread. Start of the 20th century: the us and the germans become problems for britain as they gain economic power us becomes a world power. Periods of intense competition establish new leadership in hegemonic cycles (1914-1945 was the period between the us and european powers) Geopolitics was originally a swedish term, coined in 1899 by rudolph kjellen.
