2000s What's Now, 1st Exam

2000s

challenges are outweighing the positives

2000s positives

1. expanding institutions (EU, NATO, ASEAN, etc.)

2. increased growth, decrease in poverty

3. women’s/LGBTQ inclusion (UN using influence)

4. “Color’s Revolution” (moving towards democratic societies and people advocating and shifting power)

2000s negatives

1. states engaging in war, ignoring international institutions

2. peace plans coming apart, more ethnic

realists view

increase multipolarity, driven by changes and US actions which undermines its power and scare others to balance

-security dilemma here

liberals view

erosion of some global institutions and multilateral cooperation, with US and others leading the way in violating rules

-democracies not being consolidated

-democratic recession happening perhaps

constructivists

rise of extremist identities that makes enemies

-with terrorists groups and within and among states

-US has new competitive ideas flowing and seeing cooperation as leading to a decrease in power

marxists

continuing increase in power of big economic actors, but these are all over the world, exploiting and undermining the lives of ordinary people

-China and US

-Financial Crisis shows cooperate greed and state complicity as people suffer