GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Passports Of The European Union, Common Agricultural Policy, Schuman Declaration
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European crises:-refugee and migrant crisis-sovereign debt crisis and the politics of austerity- political crisis and the rise of right-wing (xenophobic) nationalism. The removal of the berlin wall in 1989 dissipated the economic divide between capitalism and communism. Even the powerful, ever looming berlin wall full of top quality defences falls to the power of the market. Fall of communism represented the victory of the market. Francis fukuyama, the end of history and the last. Man (1992) history has reached an inevitable destination, the universal reign of capitalism. Margaret thatcher, there is no alternative (speaking in regards to the fall of the berlin wall). While the market has been around for a long time, it has only gone global since around 1980. First talked about perhaps with aristotle as early as. China ( socialism with chinese characteristics) the market is now the dominating force in global politics and is essential in shaping the world.
