PS 430G Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Soviet Union, Russia, Cuba

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 430G
• Professor: Horace Bartilow

Document Summary

Race is always relevant in american foreign policy. Economic interest is to promote capitalism, free trade, and the free movement of the capital. It"s not correct to compare the us"s position after wwii to the british or roman empire, because it"s not an empire. Without relying primarily on force, the hegemony dominates the economic, political, and cultural spheres. This is the first time in history we"ve had this sort of hegemony. After the end of wwii, the us found itself as the only state in the industrial world whose economy was intact. The problem is that it didn"t really have any trading partners. Europe was pretty rough after the war and the rest of the world hadn"t really developed (see european colonialization). The us tried to jumpstart this global economy, not out of generosity but out of self-interest. In capitalism, if you"re not growing you"re dying.