Power, Profit and Prestige Flashcards
What were the opinion on European leaderships after I and II world war?
That highlighted the Eu inability to manange power.
Those events confirmed the Walter Lippman statement (1939) that the “power control has crossed the Atlantic.”. Global american leadership was real.
What was US principal instrument of influence?
And what consequens it has on British autonomy?
The lend-lease programme.
GB received US aid just to fight the war, not to maintein its colonial power. US waited until GB closing to bank rupt before any assistance was given.
Why the US anti-colonial position became more and more ambiguous after 1945?
Because US promised to the colonies the independence and to its Eu allies that they woul recover their power on the colonies after the war.
At the end they were very carefull to stimulate colonial self-determination. They were feared by the idea of loose their accesses to colonies row materials, expecially oil.
What was the Pax Americana?
Pax Americana waere the contictions on which US granted aid and protection.
It demostrated that imperialism could be reached with just a combination of
- military alliaes and
- world economy opened up to trade, investment and information.
(fear of URSS and Comunism –> everyone seeking for US protection)
what means “tripartite imperial system” in US foreign policy?
It is the multilateral system of accords that US put in place for its hegemony.
- in Western Europe it supported pluralist policies and liberal democratic states(exception for Sp, Por, Gre, It)
- northeast Asia it rested on semi-sovereign authoritarian or semi-democratic developmental states.
- colonies it rested on interventionism and predatory imperial politics.
1956 Suez crisis: which side did US take? What did Fr e GB decided after?
US used coercive economic and diplomatic instument to force Anglo-Frech_Isdael forces to withdraw.
GB and FR respectively aligning with and separating form US. They tried to restore the position they had in past but didn’t succeed.
What was French Third way?
It was supperted by the ex general and President Gaulles, who wanted an predominant leadership in continental Europe.
The US built a hierarchical system that implied also Eu. Why is that happend?
European states were willing to give up on their political authority to gain US protection, fallowing a Cold War security interest.
So the benefit outnumbered the costs of loosing the political autonomy.
What was the Keynesian compromise within the Atlantic system?
it consisted in the "socail state", that give recognition to the labor and employee on a political level. It permitted to curbing class conflict.
Who was George Kennan and what he suggested about Asia?
George Kennan was an important polititian (he is also note as the autor of the containment policy) whose suggested that US could’t aim to human rights in Asia ex colonies, it had to seek to mantain disparity because he feared the great numeber of Asian population.
Also he considered Asian people as a inferior race.
What were the differences between the traspacific alliance system and the trasatlantic hegemonic system?
There were 3 main differencies:
- Unit for democracy.
The Pax Americana in Asia was consistently illiberal. (es Japan) - Single Market Dependency.
Birateral relations with Woshington, rather than orizontal integration. Open market but only with US. - War Making State Building.
America was almost constantly in war: it was not cold war (Korea, Vietnam).
When the decline of US hegemony starts to be perceive?
- When URSS created its nuclear weapon.
- With the Vietnam war.
- During the 1960/70 crisis, break down of Bretton Wood system and oil price hikes by OPEC.
- Non-alligned countries.
What was the main US concern after USSR fall?
Japan, forthanks to the technological leadership role it gained.
wHAT WAS THE DERECTION THAT vOLCKER SUGGESTED IN 1971?
Act to restore american predominance.
What were the three tipes of dependency relations?
- The condiction of dependence of the peripherical economy
- The European NATO
- The single marke dependence of the Asian countries.
