POL101Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Plaza Accord, Protectionism, Gini Coefficient

• School: UTSG
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL101Y1
• Professor: Joseph Wong

Document Summary

Michael ignatius: used one specific word ( we) , and he was mentioning us, and discussing us foreign policy he was using the word we often. And they are real: most of conflicts in modern history happened between nations, slide one: Seemingly obvious answer: the ideology of a nation. A nation is a group that wants to have its own state. A group of people who believe they share a common fate, history , culture and language. Nationalism says that the state and nation should be congruent: slide two. But this occurs only under modern conditions. Never before in human history did people insist that their leaders be of the same culture and never did leaders try to make the people share their culture. It is this need for congruence that needs to be explained. This is modern phenomenon: slide three: High culture and low culture: eu monarchs and populations. Industrial society and need for universalization of high culture.