Monday, April 17, 2017

Ways of the World: Chapter 21 Summary (last couple pages)

Experiments with freedom
  • democracy in India (not really anywhere else)
  • economic failure and ethnic conflict in Africa
  • army rule pushes aside weak civilian party politics
  • leftist politics and military coups in Latin America
  • Allende, the CIA, and Pinochet in Chile
  • starting in 1980s transitions to democracy 
Experiments in Economic development
  • overcoming poverty 
  • obstacles for the global south 
  • disagreements in the field of "development economics" 
  • role of the state
  • participation in the world market
  • uneven results in the global south 
Experiments with Culture
  • cultures of tradition and cultures of modernity
  • politics of islam dress and gender
  • secular modernization 
  • islamic republic
  • cultural revolution in favor of tradition 

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