POLI 371 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Africa, The Gambia, Nigeria
12 Oct 2018
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POLI 371
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Development in the Post WWII period
● Bretton Woods Institutions
○ World Bank
○ IMF
○ GATT
● Facilitated global
interconnectedness →
globalization
○ Socio-economic
integration
○ Political integration
● Development as modernization
● Development of underdevelopment → dependency theory
→ How are these reflected in the worldviews?
● Market Liberals & Institutionalists
○ Modernization - economic progress, western model, one-cup-fits-all
● Bioenvironmentalists & Social Greens
○ Dependency - unequal relationship in terms of trade
■ Unequal economic & ecological exchange
■ Capitalism creates these inequalities
● Earth Day, April 22 1970
○ Demonstrations for environmental protection now held in over 193 countries
around the world
● Greenpeace – 1971
○ Shows how global environmentalism as a movement was inspired about political
movements
Meadows et al (1972) Limits to Growth
● Computer simulated calculations on economic and demographic growth trends
● Business-as-usual will lead to over-burdening the earth’s carrying capacity by 2072 and
lead to a “sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity”
● Recommendation: alter growth trends for sustainable ecological and economic stability
○ Huge scaling back of production, consumption and population
(bioenvironmentalist)
● Criticisms: anti-growth; anti-progress; underestimating role of technological innovation,
human ingenuity; power of market mechanisms, communist?
● Recent return to Limits
E.F. Schumacher (1973) Small Is Beautiful
● Critique of neo-classical economics
● Influenced by Gandhi
● Localization
● Self-government
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● Autonomy and sovereignty
● Social well-being over profit maximization
● Became foundation for ecological economics
○ Fits within social green perspective → changing economic system to one of more
localized economist control
● 1960s and 70s
○ Key decade for environmental movement
● Bioenvironmentalists and social green ideas emerge
○ Consumption and economic/demographic growth
● Social greens influenced by dependency theories
○ Development of underdevelopment
○ Unequal economic and ecological exchange
○ Inequality as the root
○ Localization
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Document Summary
Modernization - economic progress, western model, one-cup-fits-all. Dependency - unequal relationship in terms of trade. Demonstrations for environmental protection now held in over 193 countries around the world. Shows how global environmentalism as a movement was inspired about political movements. Computer simulated calculations on economic and demographic growth trends. Business-as-usual will lead to over-burdening the earth"s carrying capacity by 2072 and lead to a sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity . Recommendation: alter growth trends for sustainable ecological and economic stability. Huge scaling back of production, consumption and population (bioenvironmentalist) Fits within social green perspective changing economic system to one of more localized economist control. Map shows complex nature of links between extremist groups & traffickers (drugs, guns, people) Us, china is increasing, african groups on un peacekeeping missions. Africans & asians send most troops (north american basically nothing)
