In your view, what drives world politics? That is, what are the forces, factors or influences, and who are the actors, that cause issues and events to emerge and evolve in world politics? In your answer, provide some examples to illustrate your claims. To the extent possible, say why you think that these forces, factors, influences and actors, etc., drive world politics in the way that you claim.
Read the excerpt of John A. Hobson, Imperialism (London: Allen and Unwin, 1948) available at: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1902hobson.asp.
Read Dennis Showalter, “Concert of Europe,” Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter, vol. 2, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006, pp. 524-527, attached above.
Read the excerpt of John A. Hobson, Imperialism (London: Allen and Unwin, 1948) available at: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1902hobson.asp.
Read the poem, “The White Man’s Burden,” by Rudyard Kipling (1899) available at: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/.
Review the animated map embedded in the article: Zack Beauchamp, “500 years of European colonialism, in one animated map,” Vox.com (16 January 2015) available at: https://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5691954/colonialism-collapse-gif-imperialism.
Listen to the ABC Radio National podcast, “The Contested Beginning” (22 December 2014) available at: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/worldwarone/1.-wwi-summer/5853980.
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