UNLOCKED: The Failure of McDonald's Peace Theory

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

There’s a maxim that says “No two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other.” This so-called Golden Arches theory enjoyed a brief moment of prominence in the 1990s, got shaky after 9/11, and has been out-right assaulted by pundits and political theorists in the past ten years. It died it’s final death in October when McDonald’s Azerbaijan took public sides in the fight between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Here to walk us through the Golden Arches Theory and what the hell was wrong with all of us in the 1990s is Paul Musgrave. Musgrave is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His recent article in Foreign Policy about this topic is titled “The Beautiful, Dumb Dream of McDonald’s Peace Theory.”

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0:47.0	A lot of things happen on the way to Mikhail Gorbachev doing a Pizza Hut commercial, but the biggest thing is that he picks a fight with Boris Yeltsin, which was dumb.
0:59.0	He runs for president in 1996, gets one one two percent of the vote.
1:04.3	Gorbachev is cut off Yeltsin says no more pension for you and so Gorbachev has to
1:10.8	find a way to fund himself.
1:12.6	And at the same time, a really smart team of advertisers
1:16.6	are working with Pizza Hut at a time when Pizza Hut
1:19.4	is just like hegemonic in the fast food space. the facts in about 30 years time will be published.
1:35.0	When genocide has been carried out in this country almost with infinity
1:40.0	and when it is near to completion,
1:43.0	people talk about intervention.
1:45.0	They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly,
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