INR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Purchasing Power Parity, Authoritarianism, Fatalism

• School: University of Florida
• Department: International Relations
• Course: INR 2001
• Professor: Brown Myra Leann

Document Summary

Defining discourse: a mode of organizing knowledge, ideas, or experience that is rooted in language and other material and immaterial contexts, like history and institutions, discourse is related to issues of power and control. Typologies of the many: some criteria to classify states, economic criteria, underdeveloped/less developed/underdeveloped/least developed/developing, agricultural/pre industrial/newly industrial/advanced. Industrial/post industrial/service economies/competitive: transitional/emerging/frontier economies, ideological/political criteria, geographical criteria, sociological criteria, human development criteria. Political/ideological criteria: first/second/third world (anachronistic, authoritarian, totalitarian, democratic/free/partially free/not free (freedom house, 86 free, strong/stable__________weak/fragile___________failed, legitimate/illegitimate, rogue states . Life index (pqli, 0-100, worst to best): life expectancy at age 1, infant mortality. Rate, literacy rates: today the un publishes annual human development reports measuring life. Expectancy, infant mortality, and literacy rates, among other factors. More recent developments: 1980s debt crisis, 1990s triumph of neoliberalism; globalizations, return to multilateralism----- membership in the wto, the g20, economic success in the global east, success of the brics------- brazil, russia, india and china; 2015 a new.