POLS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Protectionism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2200
• Professor: Janine Clark

Document Summary

What are the main questions they like to ask: how does class lead to exploitation on an international level, why are some countries rich/poor, concerned with uneven development around the world, why do they continue to be poor, what is the relationship between the two, they are not independent from one another, there is a strong relationship, how do the rich contribute to the poor. Key assumptions: begin with the international system like neo realists, looking at other levels of analysis like liberalists, realists define the international system, states and the distribution of their military/economic capabilities, economic structuralists define the international system, capitalist world system, not a system distributed by capabilities, looking at capitalism on a. Relationship is one of exploitation: use dependency instead (es, dependency relationship between core and periphery prevents the periphery from developing, relations of exploitation and domination, fourth assumption.