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29 Cards in this Set
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If the world were a village of 1000 people, ___% would be North Americans.
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What is the most spoken language?
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Mandarin
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What are acephalous societies?
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feature distributed power in a stateless structure
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Why didn't China conquer the world instead of Europeans?
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power struggle turned China inwards.
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what are ethics?
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a set of moral principles
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Define politics?
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The set of rules of the game, institutions that control access and distribution of resources.
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method of agreement (a most different system)
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compares contrasting cases to show strength of relationship b/w independent and dependent variables
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method of difference (most similar systems)
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research design compares cases as similar as possible, to isolate the factors responsible for the differences b/w them
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Four primary themes:
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-Globalization
-Human Rights -The environment -Disease (AIDS) |
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Democracy is:
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system where the people rule. each decision is made by the people as a whole.
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Indirect Democracy
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Representatives of large groups of people are selected and these representatives meet to conduct the government
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Oligarchy
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rule by a few.
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Why colonialism?
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restricted overland trade routes to Asia, mercantilist economic ideas, emphasis on EXPORTS
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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redivides line b/c Portugal got screwed by pope
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Soveirgnty
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claim to final authority over a piece of territory
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Empirical sovereignty
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refers to the ability to make the claim of authority stick within the territory in question
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Juridicial sovereignty
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legal rule- a state is a political unit (the difference between a US state and an international state). All states, regardless of size or power, are legally equal. EXTERNAL CLAIM--other countries recognize it .
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White man's burden?
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The idea that the responsibility of the Europeans to spread westernization
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To be viewed as legitimate a regime must be ...
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accepted by the majority of its citizens as right and proper enough to be obeyed in most instances
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Non-aligned movement?
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Led by India/other countries who did not want to be aligned with US or USSR
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Proxy Wars are...
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wars that result when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly
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What is a nation?
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refers to a group of people with a common shared cultural identity (ethnic, religious, etc.) (IRISH, etc)
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What is a state?
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a political entity that possesses judicial or empirical sovereignty
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Nation-state?
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When nations and states collide.
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Example of a state with empirical but without juridicial sovereignty?
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(effective control but not recognized) Taiwan
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Ex of juridical without empirical?
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Somalia, Dem Republic of the Congo (recognized, but no effective control)
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Rostows stages of economic growth:
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-traditional society (need to become modern)
-pre-conditions for take-off -take-off -drive to maturity -the age of high mass consumption |
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What does CLaude think about sub-Saharan Africa?
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development never started. for political reasons
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Difference between rules and legitimacy?
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legitimacy is when the majority of the people say that for the most part they are going to go along with whatever is happening,
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