POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Rust Belt, Arab Spring, Peacebuilding
8 May 2017
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Not the best term because it"s not necessarily a new thing. Complex political, social, and economic dynamics are occurring in a way that is hard to deal with. Cannot be approached as a singular, tangible thing. There are many, often overlapping, pushing and pulling factors. Parts of urban china are getting near southern europe in development metrics. The g20 economy is more important than the g8 now. Leads to some industries closing up shop and moving their production. Leads to a neomercantilist rhetoric about certain sectors and securing great deals. China in africa uses semi-private enterprise as a fopo tool. Blaming others for things in the global economy. Civil war leads to underdevelopment, which leads to more civil war, which leads to more underdevelopment. Democratic erosion, not just in the developing world. Long term impacts in the middle east, but they are negative. Led to more repression in bahrain and egypt.
