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Managerial States and the Transnational Disruption of 1968
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on August 10, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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middle of 1960s Cold War begins to           
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settles into its second decade
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relations become routine
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both sides stepped back from the            of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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both sides seem to want to make the conflict just a part of                  life
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popular culture reactions
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movies
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1964:          Safe
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about a nuclear crisis where the Soviets are not the villains and the United States is not the hero or the villain
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both superpowers find themselves trapped by the                          of their own technology
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1964: Seven Days in       
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plot to take over American government in order to keep the president from signing an arms control treaty with the Soviets
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1965: Dr. Strangelove
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the nuclear build up is seen as a form of collective                  fit only for the subject of satire and the darkest of dark humor
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Europe
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Soviets have given up their effort to change the status quo in             
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National security states
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large, Cold War bureaucracies
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hierarchies are in charge of most important areas
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managerial states
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United States
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Neil               
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president of Procter & Gamble
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1957-1959: Secretary of               
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Robert McNamara
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president of Ford Motor Company
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1961-1968: Secretary of Defense
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Communist countries
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the gray, almost faceless members of the Soviet                   
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each person providing guidance to various government ministries
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the government of one communist country looked like the         
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managerial state is being challenged
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Mao Zedong's revolutionary Great Leap Forward
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not only leading a war against the                          countryside, but against his own powerful ministries who are sapping the          out of the revolution
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China is actually being managed by people like Liu             
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very planned economy
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liberation
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liberation from stifling                   
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1962 book: Catch-22, Joseph Heller
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a novel based on his WWII experience in Italy, B-25 bomber squadron
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the enemy never appears
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the enemy turns out to be the managerial state itself, the military bureaucracy, insane,                 , throwing bomber crews into more meaningless missions in which they might get killed
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1962 book: Revolutionary Road, Richard           
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the young husband and wife, full of dreams
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find themselves settling down in                 
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meaning seems to be draining out of their lives
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the societal structures suffocate them and lead to personal crises
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rights revolution
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started in 1960s and expanded into the 70s
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was domestic and international at the same time
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the United States plays a                    role
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because of the civil rights turmoil
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there was a big push to get civil rights for African American, in 1950s coming to a climax in the 1960s
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government may not dicriminate based on race
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e.g. segregation of public schools or bus system
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this is a law which refers to the government
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however, the Civil Rights Act of          stated that even                firms and individuals cannot discriminate based on race or sex
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this was an enormous extension of the scope of these changes
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set precedents which spread around the world beginning in Europe, e.g. in Britain in the 1970s
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so part of the rights revolution is how people in the United States and in other countries began to see the                            of these laws, and the power of these precedents
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this is a challenge to the big, managerial state
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more formal calls for freedom
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from not only racial groups but            kinds of groups
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not only against governments and big business but against big unions
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groups against those being favored who are already on the             
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1968: the famous year of                     
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Prague
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           people are trying to through out Soviet dominated communist rule but Soviets crush this revolution and reinstate the rule of orthodox communists
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Paris
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rebellion against the structures of the structures of President de Gaulle's government (President 1959-1969)
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against the big                          of French life
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America
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anti-Vietnam protests
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Mexico
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rebellion against democratic socialism decaying into a government of cronies helping each other out
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China
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Mao leading revolution against government institutions
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encourage his guards to attack the aging                            who are now obstructing the revolution
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leading common causes of the Great Disruption
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balancing local vs. transnational
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to what extent are all of the protests in 1968 a series of                          and to what extent are they connected as an international movement
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what portion are local and what portion are common and                           
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what is the connection between various countries
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hypothesis #1: China is different
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since you have there Mao leading a revolution against his own                     
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hypothesis #2: living on a quiet               
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millions of people been living under the shadow of                  world war for decades
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created society-wide, existential unease
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as it becomes more routine, there is a reaction against this kind of world of permanent conflict
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hypothesis #3: students
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in many of the affected countries,                  are key actors
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there is an infrastructure of new universities, many just a generation old
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they are being empowered with a                      of mobilization
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opportunities to mobilize in the university's structures environment
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its hard for many of these countries to attack their            people
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hypothesis #4: American turmoil with Vietnam as a catalyst
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Vietnam War is a catalyst which sets off broader challenges to the managerial state
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people around the world are noticing and inspired by what is happening in the United States
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one of the most interesting aspects of the Great Disruption of 1968 is that the protesters did        overturn society
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much of society reacts with          to the breakdown of public order
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societies become more                    as the forces of order strike back
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China
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China's "secret years of terror" begins to get out of hand
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Liu Shaoqi expelled from the Party as a renegade and               , then dies of injuries from abuse he received
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United States
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1968 the Johnson administration decides it can't                  the war
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when Johnson leaves office, he is replaced not by anti-war dissidents
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replaced by Richard Nixon, he has two options
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option #1: escalate the war by attacking the            in a ground war
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option #2: slowly Vietnamize the war by getting the American troops out and letting Vietnam fight its own            war
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takes a middle road
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launches campaign into                 
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hoping North Vietnam will quit
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Soviets
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Leonid Brezhnev (General Secretary from 1964-1982)
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increase military power
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feel they are                      to United States in military power
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wants to maintain superpower status
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break-away republics will be forced back in to the communist         
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China
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Mao increasingly worried about the Soviet Union as being a more                    enemy than the United States
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Mao therefore warms up to the United States
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this is over portrayed as "Nixon's opening to China" but the real variable which created that opening came from the Chinese side

People:

######################### (1898-1969)
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President of the People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1968, during which he implemented policies of economic reconstruction in China
  • fell out of favor in the 1960s because Mao viewed him as a threat to his power
  • 1968 disappeared from public life and was labelled China's premier 'Capitalist-roader' and a traitor
  • died under harsh treatment in late 1969
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