POLS2409 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liberal Internationalism, Scientific Racism, German Question
Lecture 1
one page summary of at least one required reading at each tute
Course Structure:
Part 1: The crisis and collapse of the European world order
Part 2: The Cold War, decolonisation, and the consolidation of liberal internationalism
Part 3: Liberalism: victorious, or in decline?
Age of Asymmetry - The World Order in 1900:
The Global Transformation
shift in economic and social life/organisation, rise of then radical ideologies
Industrialisation + transformation of the world economy
Agrarian to manufacturing shift
cities and technological innovations -> global economy and global political order
Uneven rise of economies - focused in West
Liberal State
Transformation in capabilities and ambitions of governments
Revolution in bureaucratic capacity
Governments are more ambitious, more powerful, and more capable of direct rule
Ideologies of Progress
19th century and birth of ideologies
Liberalism
Socialism
Nationalism
Scientific racism
Modernity and Warfare
Revolution in firepower
Military technological competition + arms races
Incomplete transformation: technologies change, tactics are slower to alter
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Document Summary
Lecture 1 one page summary of at least one required reading at each tute. Part 1: the crisis and collapse of the european world order. Part 2: the cold war, decolonisation, and the consolidation of liberal internationalism. Age of asymmetry - the world order in 1900: The global transformation shift in economic and social life/organisation, rise of then radical ideologies. Agrarian to manufacturing shift cities and technological innovations -> global economy and global political order. Uneven rise of economies - focused in west. Governments are more ambitious, more powerful, and more capable of direct rule. Incomplete transformation: technologies change, tactics are slower to alter expectation of quick, annihilation warfare, and that the fastest moving country will win. Dominated by europe economic rise, dependent on colonial exploitation. Political - empires and nations, hierarchy and diversity world divided between some european nations and the rest of the world (imperial vs colonial)
