POLI 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Arab Spring, Asian Century, David Korten
21 Oct 2016
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The new united europe, with its open borders, democratic institutions and reduced external threats appeared to have a lot to look forward to. Ideas were mooted to set up specific european security arrangements. Dividing lines included the view o the role of the state and the reach and depth of the eu. Europe: an economic and soft power giant, but a military dwarf. In the decades after ww2, the continent was plagued by conflict. In spite of some bleak predictions the region underwent rapid economic developments (in part helped by cheap us security arrangements) The third world affected and was very much affected by, cold war dynamics. The (cid:494)third world(cid:495) as a political project was in may cases brought down by. The imposition of western-style structural reforms and debt servicing have in some cases left both burdens and a lingering resentment. The new global south in characterized by major reforms and the (re)joining of world markets.
