POL312Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Al-Qaeda, Mexican Peso Crisis, Ron Reagan
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School of thought nafta revoluion to construct a north american community with sociological inclinaion and theoreical inspiraion. Slow staring canada iniially caught a surprise by us iniiaive to diversify its deeper and create regional order by creaing a community on the basis of canadian disincive values of globalism, openness, muliculturalism, environmentalism. Canada also changed some its fp path towards less mulilateralism, and more regionalism due to the rising power america and china. External determinants that acivate new vulnerability of the us: shocks, summitry, society, regional insituions. Two poliicians in 1975, both were governors of california, one of whom was ron reagan (read a book land, labor, and capital ) April 30th 1975, defeat of us in its longest war in vietnam + ussr (security shock) America sill got the capital, technology, money mexico, they got labor and land (by using land, labor, and capital of north america aim to create a regional system)
