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Modelski? What´s wrong?

Context

Modelski’s geopolitical model to understand global structure different components “The most powerful country would try to set a political agenda that the rest of the world would, more or less, follow” (p.35)

power is in function of global reach (p.35) powerful countries are world leaders, not hegemonic or super powers (p.36) it has a little bit of contradictions about strength and dominance ability to exercise military power

dynamic of the model Moldeski’s

Rises and falls

4 phases:

- Phase of global power
- Phase of world power
- Phase of delegitimization
- Phase of deconcentration

Criticism about states or sides in a war, who i’m fighting for?
pros and cons

- far from perfect
- state-centric
- focus on rich and powerful countries, what about the “global south”
- Philosophical concerns: Historical and structural determinism (p. 51)

World Order (Empire book)

How capital has a structured (Marxism) view of the world?

- analysis of the contemporary global order
- Hardt and Negri claim that in globalization we are witnessing a ‘new
imperialism’
- instead of seeing a repeat
(communism) about the government

EMPIRE

How the world market works, everyone can compete but not everyone has the same

training, coach, resources...?

- Markets arrange how we consume it

New form

- cannot be reduced
- the states are losing their power
- only conceived as a universal republic
no center, no boundaries, no edges
always about territories

Learning this was a bit confused but then it all makes sense considering the world we are at now. Modelski is just a way to understand how we work. But is only a way to focus on the richest ones instead of taking in count smaller countries to set an agenda and keep it going well. Now we know about the 4 phases a country can face in order to reach that power over other's. 

References: 

ChatGPT. (n.d.). Scholar GPT. Soviet World Leadership Cycle. Access 2024. 

Brown, A. (2009). The rise and fall of communism. HarperCollins.

Mazower, Mark. (2012) Governing the World: The History of an Idea (2012).

Sakwa, R. (1999). The rise and fall of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991. Routledge.

Westad, O. A. (2005). The global Cold War: Third world interventions and the making of our times.

Cambridge University Press.