POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Culture Of Asia, Second Vatican Council, Fundamentalism
15 Aug 2018
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Very influential political scientist (last 50 years) Political order in changing societies, most famous book 1968. Forced draft urbanization: forcing people from the country side and into the cities, used by the us during the vietnam war, used a chemical to strip the leaves from trees. 1996 book, the clash of civilizations and the remaking world order. Idea the world is divided into different civilizations: african civilization, western/european civilization (north america, western europe and australia, orthodox civilization (east europe and russia) Latin civilization (south america and mexico: asian civilization. Islam civilization: hindu civilization (india, buddhist civilization. Democracy only truly became popular in the 21st century. Usa, in 1850, was the first western democracy: argued they only became a democracy in the 1960"s after the civil rights movement. The first ""long" wave of democratization began in the 1820s-1926, making 29 democratic countries: first reverse wave 1926-1945, graph skewed, because number of countries rises after wwii.
