POS 273 Lecture 5: Theoretical Perspectives-Marxism and Constructivism

This is a lecture for the online course, POS 273-International Relations, taught in the Political Science Department at the University of Maine by Professor Rob Glover.

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[@nathanielreichert4638]

One good example of a constructivist argument that I just thought of is how a state can commit atrocities in a socially acceptable manner. Nowadays, if a state wants to commit atrocities they simply need say such and such a group of people is a terrorist organization or is harboring terrorists. That way, other powerful countries are more likely to look the other way or even silently commend the atrocities being done rather than shun the abuser.

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[@許庭瑋-z4p]

Thank you so much for your clear and approachable explanation on those theories! One question, though: I don't fully grasp the idea of how , in the world-system theory, do the semi-periphery states play important roles to maintain the privileged role of the core states? Felt that the explanation there was too brief for me to understand. Can anyone explain the correlation between the two?

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I would like to add that core countries utilized cheaper highly pollutant energy resources. Since, they have had the time to improve their technologies and still today we are still moving towards cleaner sources of energy. However the periphery/ semi-periphery have not had the chance to reach there and can only afford the cheap and highly pollutant energy resources. None the less the core countries get together telling the periphery and s-p countries they need to pollute less... though, yes, they should not be harnessing energy from burning coal and wood. However this hinders their ability to economically catch up to the core country.

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korea should be classified as core

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and why do i feel this lecture is going to the direction of Pro-American propaganda.... just a thought!!1