Global Political Economy Evolution and dynamics,sixth edition by Rober

Global Political Economy
Evolution and dynamics, sixth edition
by Robert O'Brien and Marc Williams

Timelines of key dates in global political economy

1497	Portuguese fleet pass Cape of Good Hope, southern Africa on route to India
1519–21	Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire (Mexico)
1500	Transatlantic slave trade begins
1603	Dutch East India Company (VOC) establishes a base in Indonesia
1652	Dutch establish a base at the Cape, South Africa
1700–1800	Height of the Atlantic Slave trade
1757	British East India Company takes over Bengal, India
1760–1840	Industrial Revolution in Britain
1858	British Government takes control of India from British East India Company
1881–1941	Scramble for Africa
1839–42	First Opium War
1856–1860	Second Opium War
1868	Meiji Restoration and Japanese industrial revolution
1860–71	Height of the international gold standard
1905	Japanese victory over Russia
1914–18	First World War
1917	Russian Revolution
1929	US stock market crash
1929–39	Great Depression
1939–45	Second World War

1944	Bretton Woods Conference (IMF and IBRD founded)
1948	Indian independence
1948	Chinese revolution
1948	First GATT agreement
1957	European Economic Community created
1971	Nixon shock, end of dollar – gold standard
1973	First oil crisis
1979	China begins economic opening to the West
1979	Second oil crisis
1981	IBM Personal Computer released
1982	Beginning of Third World Debt Crisis
1985	Microsoft Windows released
1989	Collapse of the Soviet Union
1995	Founding of WTO
1995	Euro introduced
1997	East Asian Financial Crisis
2002	Walmart becomes world’s largest TNC
2007	I-Phone released 2007
2008	Oil hits a high of $145.00 per barrel
2008	US Credit Crisis
2009	First BRIC summit
2010	Beginning of European Sovereign Debt Crisis
2015	Chinese sponsored Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank created
2015	COP 21 sets climate change target of 2C warmer than industrial revolution
2016	Trans Pacific Partnership signed
2017	US withdraws from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
2018	NAFTA renegotiated as the US-Mexican Canadian Trade Agreement
2018	Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership comes into effect
2019	School strike for the climate becomes a global movement
2020	UK leaves the European Union (future relationship to be negotiated)
2020	Spread of Covid 19 / coronavirus threatens global health and the global economy