POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Neoliberalism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2200
• Professor: Cindy Clarke

Document Summary

Think about the ways realism is being reinforced and challenged. Oil was the prime objective for the invasion and occupation of iraq. Iraq is the only country in the world with gigantic oil reserves. The us and saudi arabia made a pact post wwii if the us was given preference for saudi oil, they would protect saudi arabia from internal and external threats. Global south scholars say that realism still holds here, just needs to be adapted. Others say that it is irrelevant in the global south and needs to be thrown out. What challenged realism in the video: actors were big oil companies and states. Premise of economic structuralism they see that major economic forces determine ir. For economic structuralists, ties that bind the world are exploitative, not like liberal view: do(cid:374)"t see a (cid:272)o(cid:271)(cid:449)e(cid:271), (cid:271)ut ties of e(cid:454)ploitatio(cid:374) Western countries exploiting the oil resources of less developed countries.