POL208Y5 Chapter Notes -Economic System, Perestroika, Warsaw Pact
Document Summary
Union and a long peace : what key events have shaped the post-cold war world, the pre-westphalian world, greece and the city-state system of interactions. As the militaries of the great city-states struggled, states carried on economic relations and trade w/ each other to an unprecedented degree. The city-states conducted peaceful relations w/ each other as they vied for power. The sovereign greek city-states reach the height of their power in 400. ; they carry out cooperative functions through diplomacy + classic power politics: rome: the governing of an empire. Roman empire served as the precursor for larger pol systems. The roman leaders imposed order and unit by force on a huge geog area: spread their language and gov"t to the far reaches of the empire. Roman empire originates imperialism, develops the practice of expanding territorial reach. The empire is united through law + lang, while allowing some local identity.
