Political Science 3398F/G Lecture Notes - Nuclear Proliferation, Human Security, Rationality
6 Dec 2012
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Lone country: suggest that there are some civilizations that have kept to themselves. Cleft country: split between two civilizations - especially useful when discussing places like africa: torn country: has a single predominant culture which places it in one civilization but its leaders want to shift it to another civilization. Three part argument: argument: for the first time in history global politics is multi civilizational. Reference to global politics, he would want to say its newish, relatively isolated from one another. Came on the heels of western expansion - was open to modernization. Hard to see sometimes that things are universal and that this isnt what people want. Its not natural for people to want what our civilization wants, what we have. The west no longer has a monopoly over all other nations: argument 2: the fact that a number of strong civilizations will order ir.
