POSC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Groupthink, Peace Of Westphalia, Scientific Revolution
23 Aug 2016
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Irredentism-relationship between people who live in another country but identify with another nationalism. Patriotism-support of your state, but not identifying with it. Balance of power breaks down due to too rapid growth by germany. League of nations-intergovernmental organization designed to prevent all future wars (unsuccessful) 3 empires collapse, russia by revolution, austro-hungarian by dismemberment, ottoman empire by external wars and internal turmoil. German dissatisfaction with ww1 settlement, leads to fascism. A weak league of nations is unable to respond to japanese, italian and. Cold war-international conflict between superpowers with threats of nuclear bombs. Superpowers- us and the soviet union, primary actors of the cold war. Containment- use of espionage, economic pressure and forward-deployed military resources. Socialism-you give back what you make and it gets redistributed evenly to everyone. Us emerged as world leader (after joining late) League of nations and rise of us-led liberalism. 2 super powers emerge, the us and soviet union (bipolar)
