INTS 2370 Lecture 1: Week 1 Notes
4 Feb 2017
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Wallerstein: core, very rarely, there is a country that dominates all (hegemony or hegemonic power, united provinces (netherlands) (1590-1672, great britain (1815-1870, usa (1905-2014, how come hegemony doesn"t last, semi-periphery, periphery (cid:498)arab development reports(cid:499) Done by middle eastern analysts: failure of college grads to find jobs. Goods are coming from asia and they are distributing the goods. Ghent (belgium) antwerp (belgium) amsterdam (netherlands) (cid:883)9(cid:882)(cid:882)"s = spanish netherlands. Also referred to as holy roman empire. Spain: tendency to put all money into this. It doesn"t last long, because it is very difficult for a country to maintain all 3 of these. They didn"t invest it into their own country. Yes they had a lot of gold and silver: war, church, partying, etc. Once they run out of money, the spanish economy collapses. Emperor of hapsburg empire (charles v) gives up. Body gave out: ate a lot, drank more.
