POLI 244 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Arab Spring, Empiricism, K-Pop

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 244
• Professor: Fernando Nunez- Mietz

Document Summary

Ugcc chapter 6 post-cold war cooperation, conflict, flashpoints. The post cold war era is the period in world history from the collapse of the. It has mostly been dominated by the rise of globalization (as well as seemingly paradoxically, nationalism) enabled by the commercialization of the internet and the growth of the mobile phone system. The ideology of postmodernism and cultural relativism has according to some scholars replaced modernism and notions of absolute progress and ideology. It has seen the united states become by far the most powerful country in the world and the rise of china from a relatively weak third world country to a fledgling superpower. It has also seen the merging of most of europe into one economy. Environmentalism has also become a mainstream concern in the post cold war era; global warming entered public discourse in 1988 after a very hot summer which burned down 40 percent of the forest land in yellowstone national park.