Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: North American Free Trade Agreement, Liberal Democracy, Hegemony
9 Apr 2019
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Us has been hegemon the most recent decades. Major changes to the hegemon creates tension internationally. Wants to put american national interest above all else economically, etc. Wants to impose tariffs major violation of free trade (china) Now china has fired back by placing tariffs on us goods. Us has made moves to limit there contributions internationally: ex. Pulling out of nafta as well and paris agreement. Has a disregard for rules and customs. Radicalization of us citizens to vote for someone like him. Moved from unipolar to multipolar (before us was hegemon, not so much now as countries like. Multilateral world order: many national treaties everybody is dealing with everybody. Marriage between us power and international institutions and norms. Nato: made by us, greatly benefitted the us security. A world of friendly states willing to cooperate . The big u turn of us foreign policy. The convention on the rights of the child.
