SOCI 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wage War, Hegemony, Free Trade
12 Mar 2014
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Sociology 265 war, states and social change. = common currency means budget deficits can run as much as they want. Theory = certain people propose this as an explanation for the system. When there is no clear hegemon or challenges to the previous hegemon challenges to the leading position or system: no hegemon provides stability = leads to war (read gilpin) What do people say in favour of it? o. Against it: in many nations there is a lot of dislike of the hegemonic theory. Expansion of liberal free-trade environment is very common = breakdown. 2 decades of how the government should be = institutional growth of imperial systems and then the shift away from empires to nation states (institutional forms of government: wars seem to be very centred around 2 institutions. 2 reasons: nation states reaction to the previous state, people and the state correspond culturally with each other e. g. english by english,
