POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Corporatism, European Central Bank, United States Of Europe
23 Mar 2016
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Not a substanive focus but a method. Assessing the similariies and diferences among countries, governance or leadership based on: time period, system type, geographical region. Three goals of comparison: describe, explain, predict. Developed world: industrialized naions that are part of a structurally integrated system of global capitalizaion: includes the countries of western europe, north american, japan, australia and. New zealand: also known as developed countries, industrialized world, the north, the frist. The three worlds concept emerged ater wwii: first: advanced industrialized naions, second: communist naions, third: neither advanced nor communist. Third world came to describe a very large and diverse group. Third world as residual category that has litle meaning. Diicult to categorize states and poliical systems. Interwar period (1919-1939) state of autarky: autarky: non-interacion and isolaion between states. Lack of coordinaion lead to wwii, dynamic of suspicion and distrust. Desire to avoid another autarky postwar: trade and economic growth would lead to peace.
