SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Point Four Program, Marshall Plan, Agrarian Reform
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Initially internal but with globalization became external too. Nation state: sovereign area where residents are united by factors that define a nation. Un promotes ideas that each major nation should have a nation state and be a un member (193) International framework of military and economic aid securing continued access to resources. A strategy involving industrialization (isi vs tech transfer in different cases) Developmental state initiatives to manage investment and mobilize multi class political coalitions into development alliance. Realization of development through new inequalities (class, gender, race); not part of the development project but an inextricably linked notion. Bilateral marshall plan to reconstruct the first world pay wwii. Breton woods program meant to link the entire world economy together. Emerged with the former and formalized with the latter. Europeans desired social peace and employment and the us wanted new markets. Marshall plan offered a solution by providing resources after devastation of war and colonialism.