SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Project For The New American Century, Middle Ages, Mass Incarceration
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Crusade into the holy land in the early middle ages. Western expert knows the middle east better than middle easterners themselves. Europe colonized the middle east and africa by force. Former colonies are absorbed into different allies and become a base for military stability and markets. New governments are supported by a global system. Oil became a key resource driving global economy. Middle eastern countries became a key strategic ally. Us funded, armed, and trained the islamist groups that would become the taliban and. By the early 1990s, the us won the cold war. Us was the sole global economic and military superpower. Ideology that justified us intervention: no longer saving people from anything, hard to justify intervention. Post-cold war, pnac called for creation of a new world order by creation of a new world order by creation of a permanent militarized threat that would justify permanent global us military and economic dominance.
