PSC 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Russia-2, Liberal Internationalism, Eurocentrism
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Introduction: trump, and other realists, believe that. The plus 4 : four non-european states that exert substantial regional influence, mexico - large population and income, influential in central america but unimpressive military, turkey - large gnp and impressive military, heir to former ottoman. Empire: iran - large gnp and impressive military, 3,000 years of regional influence in southwest asia, problem - their state religion is the minority sect of islam, saudi arabia - large gnp but small population; impressive military. Population of brics + 4: china, india, usa 1-3 in the world respectively. Gdp of brics + 4: usa, china 1-2 in the world respectively, eu is the largest domestic economy in the world. Military budgets of brics + 4: usa, china, russia 1-3 in the world respectively, chinese receive much lower wages than us military so that distorts money.
