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29 Cards in this Set
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A. Globalization |
Characterized by high levels of interdependence and global integration. The increasing integration of the world in terms of communications, culture, and economics. |
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A. International Integration |
process by which supranational institutions replace national ones; the gradual shifting upward of sovereignty from state to regional or global structures |
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3. Reality of Integration |
a. States don’t want to give up sovereignty, never gone beyond power sharing |
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most successful integration |
European Union |
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a. Functionalism |
moves toward integration could be caused by the growth of specialized technical organizations that cross state borders. |
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b. Neofunctionalism |
argues that economic integration (functionalism) generates a political dynamic which integrates states further. |
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c. Security Community |
the situation in which low expectations of interstate violence permit a high degree of political cooperation |
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5. Disintegration |
attempts to move away from integration because of the perception of a lack of control by the state and in the lives of individuals |
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Consequences of EU integration |
i. Crime ii. Sovereignty |
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Benefits of Eu integration |
i. Trade ii. Travel/ labor iii. Policy Standardization |
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1. Collective Good |
a. States bargain over how to distribute the costs of providing a sustainable national environment |
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3. Tragedy of the commons |
a. Collective goods dilemma is produced when common environmental asserts are depleted through failure of states to cooperate effectively |
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1. Solutions of environmental collective goods problems |
1. regimes 2. Epistemic communities (Knowledge based) |
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E. Sustainable Development |
1. Economic growth that doesn’t deplete resources & destroy ecosystems so quickly that the basis of that economic growth is itself undermined |
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1. Global warming / Climate Change |
long-term rise in average world temperature |
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cause of global warming |
i. Emission of carbon dioxide & other gases through burning fossil fuels to run vehicles, transportation, factories, etc. |
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iv. 1997: Kyoto Protocol |
2. Called for 40 industrialized countries to reduce emissions to 5% below the 1990 level by 2012 w/binding consequences |
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what responses to global warming have been effective |
none |
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why are natural resources important to states |
1. self-sufficiency 2. trade / competition 3. security / degradation |
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area with most population growth |
global south |
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1. Thomas Malthus |
population increases faster than food supply and growth limits itself through famine and disease |
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b. Motivations for Colonialism |
i. West Europe hated fact that Arab middlemen (Moors) dominated Europe’s trade w/ Asia & wanted to go around themii. European powers needed to expand to increase their wealth, power, & balance |
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c. Colonial Powers |
Portugal, France, England, Germany, Italy, Belgium |
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f. The Great “Carve Up” |
i. Leading powers met in Berlin in 1885 for the great ‘carve up’ of Central Africa to demarcate borders. Settled competing border claims |
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when did true decolonization occur |
after wwii |
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a. divide-and-rule |
reward certain ethnic groups/people over others. created later rivalries |
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i. Weak State |
unable to govern effectively, corrupt, crime-ridden |
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ii. Failed State |
collapse of sovereignty, essentially no national government in place |
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3. 1948- apartheid |
complex system of strict racial segregation in south africa |
