PSCI 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Environmentalism, Deindustrialization, Unilateral Disarmament
23 Mar 2016
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Must be entirely consolidated as a democracy with full universal suffrage, competition and absolute liberty. Must also be extremely well developed economically, must have top 20 gdp/capita ranking, with a modern economic composition. Western europe west of austria/hungary border. East asia japan, australia, new zealand. Upcoming candidates south korea, taiwan, israel, Challenges to the economic systems: these countries may rank near the top of the world but they face challenges that could be potentially lethal for them. 2 potentially different interpretation: integration cede state power to supra national organizations, losing sovereignty, devolution cede power to sub-national units weakening of state autonomy. Poses direct challenge to sovereignty of member countries. Historical origin: was an attempt to pool economic resources (coal and steel) from 6 different countries, pooled these resources in order to prevent recurrence of conflict and these were essential to heavy manufacturing, reducing internal competition.
