Explain the extent to which Neocolonialism afects geopolitcal staailitty (8 marks)
The gloaal patern of power has changed from a unipolar to a aipolar worldy Neocolonialism is the
use of trade, investment and culture to infuence independent countries instead of using direct
governance and geopolitcsy nd geopolitcal staailitt is the studt of the infuence of such factors as
geographt, economics, and demographt on the politcs and especiallt the foreign polict of a statey
Therefore, it could ae argued that thet link directlt with the indirect infuence of superpowers
afectng the wat independent countries are run and organised as a societty
fter the recond oorld oar the allied countries made the decision that an internatonal economic
ststem with greater cooperaton aetween countries was required in order to prevent future warsy
The Breton ooods conference in 1944 led to the estaalishment of intergovernmental organisatons
which now dominate internatonal decision-makingy rome examples of IGO’s include Internatonal
monetart fund, and the predecessors oorld Bank and world trade organizatony Their ket mission is
to improve the social wellaeing of people worldwide through the promoton of improvement
policiesy Predominantlt controlled at oestern states it should ae rememaered that thet are indirect
instruments through which the west exerts its infuencey t the tme of the Breton ooods
agreement, roviet Russia refused to ratft agreements to set up these organisatons and so in
response to the west initatng the Marshall plan to use Ur aid to reauild Europe Russia formed
Comecon, an IGO intended to facilitate cooperaton aetween socialist and communist countriesy nd
so with raised threats from the roviet Union oestern Europe and North merica created the N TO
(North tlantc treatt organisaton) militart alliancey nd so whilst Comecon ceased to exist after the
fall of the Berlin wall in 1991, other IGO’s contnue to place ket decisions aaout Gloaal issues in the
hands of a relatvelt small numaer of leaders- the majoritt of which are superpowersy n example of
an LEDC whose geopolitcal staailitt has aeen dependant on Neocolonialism includes the cote
d’Ivoire, oest frica where the IMF did not allow them to receive aid untl 2013, when its
government agreed to set up commercial courts and allow free presidental electonsy Investment in
educaton and training has aeen dependant on the government creatng a more compettve aanking
sectory Furthermore, the UN stll aans diamond exports from the Ivort Coast after the countrt used
them to fnance a civil war in 2005y fter minimum wages agreements and investments in road
infrastructure were achieved in 2011, the countrt was allowed export cocoa again which whilst did
once again aoost the economt it was nowhere near the scale of income thet were once getng from
their diamond exportsy This a demonstraton of the power MEDC’s have over LEDC’s through neo-
colonialismy
To conclude, neo-colonialism has a large impact on the geopolitcal staailitt of LEDC’s as it essentallt
allows them to have complete power over their resources, economic income and politcal ststemy In
some cases it has completelt changed the culture of a countrt with an external infuence afectng
what is appropriate according to new laws that are enforced and rules on exportatonsy ll of which
are factors which afect the demographic and economt of a countrt leaving them powerless and
unaale to defend themselves from outside infuence from superpowers such as the Ur and Europey
The gloaal patern of power has changed from a unipolar to a aipolar worldy Neocolonialism is the
use of trade, investment and culture to infuence independent countries instead of using direct
governance and geopolitcsy nd geopolitcal staailitt is the studt of the infuence of such factors as
geographt, economics, and demographt on the politcs and especiallt the foreign polict of a statey
Therefore, it could ae argued that thet link directlt with the indirect infuence of superpowers
afectng the wat independent countries are run and organised as a societty
fter the recond oorld oar the allied countries made the decision that an internatonal economic
ststem with greater cooperaton aetween countries was required in order to prevent future warsy
The Breton ooods conference in 1944 led to the estaalishment of intergovernmental organisatons
which now dominate internatonal decision-makingy rome examples of IGO’s include Internatonal
monetart fund, and the predecessors oorld Bank and world trade organizatony Their ket mission is
to improve the social wellaeing of people worldwide through the promoton of improvement
policiesy Predominantlt controlled at oestern states it should ae rememaered that thet are indirect
instruments through which the west exerts its infuencey t the tme of the Breton ooods
agreement, roviet Russia refused to ratft agreements to set up these organisatons and so in
response to the west initatng the Marshall plan to use Ur aid to reauild Europe Russia formed
Comecon, an IGO intended to facilitate cooperaton aetween socialist and communist countriesy nd
so with raised threats from the roviet Union oestern Europe and North merica created the N TO
(North tlantc treatt organisaton) militart alliancey nd so whilst Comecon ceased to exist after the
fall of the Berlin wall in 1991, other IGO’s contnue to place ket decisions aaout Gloaal issues in the
hands of a relatvelt small numaer of leaders- the majoritt of which are superpowersy n example of
an LEDC whose geopolitcal staailitt has aeen dependant on Neocolonialism includes the cote
d’Ivoire, oest frica where the IMF did not allow them to receive aid untl 2013, when its
government agreed to set up commercial courts and allow free presidental electonsy Investment in
educaton and training has aeen dependant on the government creatng a more compettve aanking
sectory Furthermore, the UN stll aans diamond exports from the Ivort Coast after the countrt used
them to fnance a civil war in 2005y fter minimum wages agreements and investments in road
infrastructure were achieved in 2011, the countrt was allowed export cocoa again which whilst did
once again aoost the economt it was nowhere near the scale of income thet were once getng from
their diamond exportsy This a demonstraton of the power MEDC’s have over LEDC’s through neo-
colonialismy
To conclude, neo-colonialism has a large impact on the geopolitcal staailitt of LEDC’s as it essentallt
allows them to have complete power over their resources, economic income and politcal ststemy In
some cases it has completelt changed the culture of a countrt with an external infuence afectng
what is appropriate according to new laws that are enforced and rules on exportatonsy ll of which
are factors which afect the demographic and economt of a countrt leaving them powerless and
unaale to defend themselves from outside infuence from superpowers such as the Ur and Europey
