POLS 1600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hegemonic Stability Theory, Bretton Woods System, Yalta Conference
31 Aug 2016
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Hegemon: a single powerful state that exercises predominant influence over global actors. Hegemonic stability theory: global dominance of a hegemony is necessary to provide the order required for international commerce and military security. Structuralism: changing distribution of power within the anarchical global system determines behaviour of states. Treaty of westphalia 1648: recognized the existence and defined the rights of sovereign states. Two hostile alliances: germany, austria, ottoman empire, france, britain, russia. Structuralism: shifting power distribution; rise of germany: two hostile alliances, non-interlocking, germany, austria-hungary, and russia, france, britain, russia. Versailles treaty and punishment of germany: war guilt, reparations. Great-power wars: axis alliance = germany, japan, italy. Yalta conference (w. churchill, f. roosevelt, j. stalin) in feb 1945 border changes in europe. Nuclear weapons august 1945 hiroshima and nagasaki. System change: end to great-power rivalries in europe. Bipolarity: u. s. soviet rivalry the cold war. Bretton woods system = new economic institutions are created = (imf/world bank as well as.
