SOCI 265 Lecture Notes - High Tech, Lean Manufacturing, Marshall Plan
12 Mar 2014
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Sociology 265 war, states and social change. Last section of the course state of the world"s political economy now, esp. re. war and peace. Hst = 1 liberal state provides rules: pax americana = people say that this follows a pax britannica. 1 other thing re. the theory = says that hell is other people" (cid:224) decline is other people = argument of kindelberger and. Occurs because, in the late 1960s, the usa deals with the war in vietnam (expensive the korean war before it) as well as lbj"s series of social programmes based on civil rights e. g. medicaid, great. Arabia and eventually china do this) because as is the american way! The usa in 1945 truly controlled the world monetary system = its voice in the imf and world bank is dominant because of the shares it had purchased. Had nuclear weapons = enormous power w. no capitalist rivals.
