POLI 243 Lecture Notes - 1973 Oil Crisis, Peter J. Katzenstein, Market Maker
4 Apr 2012
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Mixing characteristics: population density vs. technology, us: low population density and industrialized. Could provide for its people by living off the land: japan: high population density and industrialized. Island, needs more minerals and fuel and food but is still industrialized. Us starts a protectionist tariff which excludes the. Japanese from the export market making japan unable to import: china: high population density and not industrialized. State- society relations: peter katzenstein: between power and plenty, responses by industrialized states to the opec oil crisis, counter to structural realism all the countries should react the same to this crisis, state vs. society. Centralized bureaucracy which has the power to do a lot of things, very strong centralized organization in society labor unions. Japan started thinking about alternative forms of energy. When they do something it will be decisive and dramatic, government and industries will go in the same direction. President, congress and states all make decisions.
