Globalization and World Politics Final Exam with correct answers 2024
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Globalization and World Politics Fina
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Globalization And World Politics Fina
leapfrogging correct answers -devel countries are not following our model of technol advancement. They leap stages.
example: In africa they skipped landlines and moved onto cellphones
collier: bottom to bottom correct answers Poverty Trap
Four Traps:
Conflict trap
Natural resources t...
leapfrogging correct answers -devel countries are not following our model of technol
advancement. They leap stages.
example: In africa they skipped landlines and moved onto cellphones
collier: bottom to bottom correct answers Poverty Trap
Four Traps:
Conflict trap
Natural resources trap
Landlocked trap with bad neighbors
Trap of bad governance
Bottom Billion have experienced:
73% in civil war
29% in countries dominated by politics of natural resource revenues
30% are landlocked, resource-scarce, and in bad neighborhood
76% through prolonged period of bad governance and poor economic policies
SIGNIFICANCE: (FROM collier) Trapped nats are now the poorest. China and india
caught up in time to penetrate global market and started off w more $. These countries
had less and missed their chance and have been stuck.
explanations for economic inequality correct answers -Slow wage growth
-Different educational levels
-Technological advancements
-Gender plays a role
-Different levels of development: political, social, economic
data:
Inequality between developed and developing countries
Life expectancy of 60 years vs 71 in developing nations
High infant mortality: US: 6/1000 births vs developed countries:
3/1000 births vs developing of 53/1000 births
Malnutrition: of bottom billion in Africa
examples/significance: -rich ppl make investments like stocks
-get large tax cuts
,globalization threats to the state correct answers Strange: declining authority of st8s
St8s less effective against markets
Shell of st8: privatization of war, social welfare cutbacks, less control over econ
Power & authority in society and the econ r being exercised by agents other than st8s
(corps)
Neo-liberal policies
Growing influence of international organizations
Global norms on the rise
Porous borders of states
Diminishment of national culture
examples/significance:
Gov't has deals w milit contractors, prisons and nat parks managed by private firms
Rodrik: has globaliz gone too far? correct answers Rodrik: has globaliz gone too far?
Global markets leading 2 social instability?:
---Red. barriers 2 trade and investments accentuate differences b/w groups tht cross
borders and those who can't
---Globaliz has made it diff 4 gov'ts 2 prov social insurance 2 protecc ppl in need
---Has econ globaliz led 2 cultural conflicts
significance: a solution wud be to balance openness with needs/thot. it would make
sense to tighten anti-dumping rules.
IGOs correct answers DEFN: Membership consists of gov'ts
Features:
-Global and regional geography
-Gen and specialized purposes
Examples?:
Global-general IGO: UN
Regional specialized IGO: african union, oas (org of amer st8s), asean (assoc of
southea asian nats), NATO (defense b/w EU and US), NAFTA (specialized in trade
issues)
IGOs: world health org, which was criticized for its slo response to identify and contain
the spread of Ebola
-IGOs in HIV/AIDS: world health org, joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), UN
children's fund (UNICEF)
internat law correct answers -part of global capitalism
, -institutionaliz of global politics:
DEFN: Thickening web of multilateral agreements, global and regional instits, and
transnational gov't networks
---Exists only 2 the extent 2 which most powerful st8s conceive it as being in their nat
interests
-Deinstitutionalization?
---US pulling out of multilateral and bilateral treaties and orgs
---Yesterday: INF treaty
-Reasons 4 global governance:
---Declining power of nat-st8s
---Continuous global flow of capital, goods, diseases, ppl, ideas running thru nat-st8s
---Nat-st8s unable 2 manage numerous domestic crises and nat catastrophes
---Internat governmental orgs
---Non-governmental orgs
---Interest of the US bc probs of other nats can come back 2 u like terrorism
From study session:
What is global governance? Internat orgs. Nongov't orgs. What makes up the
governance? These all contribute to global governance. It is important so tht they can
work together to solve problems. Why: mechanism for settling disputes, etc. 194 nation
states. Dont hv a world gov't nats hv learned thru a struct of global governance. Semi-
world government. More thn states being sep and individ but not entirely united.
SIGNIFICANCE: INF (The intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty) trump recently
pulled out. arms agreement b/w soviet union and US. trump claims it puts us in a
military disadvantage w china.
Global Civil Society correct answers example/significance: a side of the left wing
resistance to globalization. this side of resistance includes global civil society, global
culture, and global democracy. NGO. world social forum
DEFN: -The aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions in the world
-Individuals and organizations in a society which are independent of the government
-Network of these NGOs and individuals throughout the world
McCoy: Gates Foundation correct answers NGO
full title is "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"
-help w/ HIV/AIDs
Prosumers correct answers DEFN: those who simultaneously produce wht they
consume. Produce what others consume. Part of disc on media and technol.
Ex: writing a blog, u can write it for urself to consume and for others. Liberates us from
established media and estab orgs tht produce content for us.
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