1. AFTER THE COLD WAR: FROM GEOPOLITICS TO GEOECONOMICS

2. “MISSING” How accurate the factual detail?
Role of Chilean military and/or Pinochet?
Degree of U.S. complicity?
Why so fearful the powerful?
Could such a thing happen today? Why or why not? Where or where not?

3. REQUIRED READING
Smith, Talons, chs. 9-10

4. AFTER THE COLD WAR: THE GLOBAL ARENA
Collapse of the Soviet Union
U.S. military primacy: the “unipolar moment”
Economic multipolarity: Europe, Japan, others?
Transnationalization and non-state actors
A “third wave” of democratization?

5. ON “GLOBALIZATION” Factors:
End of Cold War=reduction of political barriers
Communication technologies
Transnational enterprises: production chains and consumer markets
Movement of people and goods, legal and illegal
Features:
Inexorability, inevitability
Politics the result of economics
Inclusion vs. exclusion?
Claim: no ideology

6. THE 1990s: GEOECONOMICS AND “INTERMESTIC” ISSUES
Ideological consensus (or “end of history”?)
Implausibility of revolution
Fragmentation of “Third World”
The rise of “intermestic” issues:
Free trade
Drugs and drug “wars”
Immigration

7. GEO-ECONOMICS: RULES OF THE GAME (i)
1. Presumably “peaceful” competition
2, Positive-sum, not zero- or negative-sum
3, Goal: increase or guarantee share of economic benefits—without destroying (or even defeating) rivals
4. Repeated iterations
5. Strategy: Maintenance of global “stability”
6. Tactic: formation of “open” blocs

8. RULES OF GAME (ii) Competitive arenas: State roles:
Consumer markets, natural resources (energy, water, etc.)
Technology
Financial markets
State roles:
Direct participation
Shaping of incentives
Legitimacy on basis of “market discourse”
Regional integration:
Strong seek to perpetuate primacy
Weak seek to avoid exclusion
Thus asymmetrical bargaining
Hub-and-spoke configurations