Political Science 2237E Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-98: World Trade Organization, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Ikenberry

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2237E
• Professor: Richard Vanderweetering

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P o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e 2 2 3 7 e. The rise of china and the future of the west. As china gets more powerful, they will try to use their growing influence to reshape rules of the international system. If the us wants to preserve their leadership, washington needs to strengthen the rules that underpin that order, thus making it harder to overturn. The road to the east runs through the west . Transititional anxieties: china has become one of the world"s major manufacturing centers. Open order: franklin roosevelt sought to create a one-world system managed by cooperative great powers that would rebuild war-ravaged europe. Roosevelt urged that china be included as a permanent member of the un security council. If a country wants to be a world power, it has no choice but to join the world trade organization (wto)