Sunday, May 15, 2016
World Politics
In class, we talk a lot about the works of America, but the 90's were a changing time for the whole world. Keeping up with whose political party is whose can be confusing at times, so hopefully this helps out. The early 90's witnessed the fall of communism in most of Eastern Europe. This means that most of these countries, including Russia, shifted towards capitalism. The middle East at this time was a bit of a mess, and was experiencing several dictators or civil wars, so we'll just call them "finding their way," for now. Eastern Asia is largely communist controlled still. China, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are under communist influence; this dates back to the Vietnam war and those shenanigans. Most/All of western Europe is capitalism, this hasn't and won't change for the most part. Africa probably won't be talked about in our class, but that area of the world is a mix of dictatorships, or minorities ruling, (South Africa). In the time leading up to the 2000's and after, the biggest changes in political power will be seen in Africa, but mainly the Middle East, where America will have most of its involvement.
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I wouldn't say that Russia and many of the eastern nations became capitalist because there are still remnants of the Communist party in the eastern countries, such as the fact that many of the governments are extremely corrupt and there is little social movement between the social classes.
ReplyDeleteDo you think the 90s were a very big changing time for the world or mostly america? I feel that in class we mostly focused upon the inward and reflective themes, as in mostly what was happening to America during these years. I actually like you brought up this point because I think it would be interesting to also be able to learn about maybe cities in European countries at the same time, just to see if they too had similar drug problems, gang violence, rioting, and music shift etc.
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