POL327Y5 Lecture Notes - Industrial Revolution, South Asia, Security Dilemma
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Brief review on the literature on how the authors look at it. American foreign policy marked by stability over long time, basic institutions have been around for a long time. The institutions remain more or less the same, allows us to come to definite conclusions that political culture plays. In russia: where last 20 years has had a huge transformation, in terms of institutions & in outputs of russian foreign policy. This transformation began with the ascendency govatrof leadership to soviet union his recognition that the su needed reform, institution with parastoda and grassnof, economic restructuring and reopening. This was to rescue it, if the su continued on its trend it would fail. These new initiatives made forces that were very hard to contain, which ended in its collapse, a period of instability through the 1990s and first decade of first century and is only emerging from it now.
