POLB80H3 Lecture Notes - Security Dilemma, Resource Curse, Hegemony
27 Feb 2014
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Sovereignty, state exercising sovereignty (in africa, asserting control over natural resources within their boundaries: growing power of china, and what it"s doing with its power. Impact of cold war today: change in type of conflict, prominence of the un. In the early 20th century, large army, lots of gun. No longer have we had interstate war. (intervention of intrastate war form the outside) Two large blocks, result of cold war. Competition of who was going to be in which block. Prominence increase due to expansion of agenda: primacy of the us. Us was the only superpower, undisputed hegemon: expansion of international agenda. How do we manage the relationship between us and soviet union. Trace dynamics back to cold war, the legacy of it. States: no authority over the state, other actors do exist but are secondary to states as powerful and authoritative actors, 2.
