POSC240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Standard Fruit Company, United Fruit Company, Classical Liberalism
30 Aug 2016
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Liberalism: based on classical liberal thought (kant, mill, smith, etc. ) Enlightenment: human rights and liberties: value of individuals w/inalienable rights. Rule of law and constitutionalism > came out of liberal thoughts: market economies (less state intervention) Gvts inefficient and thus make markets inefficient: cooperation in international system (does not have to mean shared identities) States work together all the time without conflict: collective security: more than an alliance; implies trust. Ex: eu=states can share levels of security, economies, policies, courts, rules of law, inte- gration system: democratization: promoting human rights and market economies, trade and commerce: wto. The more interdependence you have, the more costly it is to go to war. Have other options to solve commerce besides war. Background: civil wars in central american countries (guatemala, el salvador, honduras, nicaragua) in. Banana republics : poor, underdeveloped state organized around a monocultural export system= entire economy driven by production of bananas, united fruit company and standard fruit company.
