World politics has changed in many ways since the late 18th century. Identify what you regard as the two most important changes and explain why those two are more important than the others.
- Mao Zedong’s approach to developing China combined central planning with very low connection to the global economy. His successors modified both, allowing establishment of local government-owned and private enterprises not subject to planning and opening China’s economy to more international trade and investment in the 1980s. Drawing on theories and analytical schemes learned in class, explain why the changes were made.