GEOG 1014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, North American Free Trade Agreement, Mercosur
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Many in last 20-30 years: the world was sick of conflict, ww2 was the culmination of terror/pain, bloodiest century of human existence, technology had increased so much, death was easier to achieve. Western powers: usa, europeans, in charge of planet earth at this time, sorta, controlled economy, western powers dominated leadership of supranational organizations, 1945, china still destroyed. This is changing fast, though : new non western orgs forming, sco, existing orgs reforming themselves, un. Kind of clubs, illegitimate: no written set of rules/constitution, no structure formed, states don"t have to give up anything, really, g7,8,20, nuke club, bric. Brazil, russia, india, china: free trade, eliminate as many barriers as possible between businesses and peoples of diff. countries to openly trade. Get gov"t and regulations out of the way. Protectionism = opposite of free trade: protect industries and businesses of their state at expense of other states" businesses and industries, war, avoid unemployment, 1.
