Lecture 22: Imperialism II

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Lecture 22 Imperialism II

• Hobson, Lenin, and Schumpeter
• Doyles General Framework
• Doyles Model of Imperialism

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Hobsons Imperialism
Under Consumption
Need Exports
Demand Crisis
Capitalism
Need to Export Capital
Excessive Savings
Investment Crisis
Coalition Big Finance, Pro-Export, Military, Bure
aucracy, Landed Aristocracy
Capture Government Policy Imperialism
Solutions 1) Redistribute Income 2) More
Democratic System Focus Metropole Characteristics
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Lenins Theory of Imperialism
Financial and Industrial Concentration
Demand Crisis
Impoverishment Of Workers
Collapse of Capitalism
Capitalism
Excessive Savings
Investment Crisis
Marx Stage I
Imperialism Secure Export Markets
Great Power Competition In Periphery
Great Power War
Solutions None Focus Metropole Characteristic
Lenin Stage II
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Schumpeters Model of Imperialism
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Capitalism
Imperialism
()
()

• Domestic Interest Groups
• That Favor Imperialism
• Monopoly Traders
• Protected Sectors
• Military
• Bureaucrats

History of Militarized Society And Prevelance of
Militarized Beliefs
Solutions Improve Economic Liberalism Get
Government Out of Economy Focus Metropole
Characteristic
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Doyles General Framework
International Structure
Periphery Target
Metropole
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Doyles Model

• Periphery
• Tribal vs.Patriarchal
• United vs. Factionalized

• Metropole
• Open vs. Closed Economy
• Civil/Military Relations
• Balance of Interest Groups

• Extent of Empire
• Type Formal vs. Informal
• Fall of Empire

• Transnational Agents
• Military
• Bureaucrats
• Merchants/Traders/Investors
• Missionaries

• International System
• Anarchy Balance of Power
• Polarity Multipolarity
• Bipolarity
• Unipolarity

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Adding Disease to Doyles Model
Disease Depopulates
Formal Settler Colony
Tribal
Formal
No Depopulation
Patrimonial
Informal