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Tom Wolf |
Pennsylvania's Democratic governor-elect. |
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Dave Reed |
PA House of Reps majority leader. Republican, IUP grad. |
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Tragedy of the Commons |
is an economics theory by Garrett Hardin, which says that individuals acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, behave contrary to the whole group's long-term best interests by depleting some common resource |
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Kyoto Protocol |
main international treaty on global warming |
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Nile River |
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world |
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Swine Flu |
Swine influenza, also called pig influenza, swine flu, hog flu and pig flu, is an infection caused by any one of several types of swine influenza viruses. Swine influenza virus (SIV) or swine-origin influenza virus (S-OIV) is any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is endemic in pigs.[2] As of 2009, the known SIV strains include influenza C and the subtypes of influenza A known as H1N1, H1N2, H2N1, H3N1, H3N2, and H2N3. |
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Ebola |
Ebola is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with a strain of Ebola virus. The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. The risk of an Ebola outbreak affecting multiple people in the U.S. is very low. |
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Democratic Republic of Congo |
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DR Congo, DRC, Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, DROC, or RDC, is a country located in Central Africa. |
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Berlin's Balloons |
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Lightgrenze, translated to light border, places lighted balloons where the wall used to be. |
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London's poppies |
remembrance day, taking place each year on november 11th, marks the end of the first world war and honors the commonwealth armed forces who have died in the line of duty. as symbol of this sacrifice and service, artist paul cummins and stage designer tom piper have infilled the famous dry moat at the tower of london with 888,246 ceramic poppies, spilling out from a window onto the vast grassy expanse that divides the historic site from the city center. since august, ‘blood swept lands and seas of red‘ has continued to progressively spread throughout the space, with individually red-hued flowers installed in the landscape by a team of over 8,000 volunteers, each one representing a british military fatality during the war. on remembrance day tomorrow, the last poppy will be planted, reflecting the magnitude of the event with the installation’s powerful and visceral visual commemorative quality. |
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Africa's World War |
The deadliest war in modern African history, it has directly involved nine African states, as well as about 20 armed groups. By 2008, the war and its aftermath had killed 5.4 million people, mostly from disease and starvation,[7] making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II. |
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Make Poverty History |
Called for more and better aid, debt cancellation and trade justice. |
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Dependency Theory |
A marxist-oriented theory that explains the lack of capital accumulation in the third world as a result of the interplay between domestic class relations and the forces of foreign capital. |
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Structural Adjustment Programs |
The campaign is generally a coalition of aid and development agencies which work together to raise awareness of global poverty and achieve policy change by the government. Though the different campaigns focus on different issues according to the circumstances within their country, they generally focus on issues relating to 8th Millennium Development Goal such as aid, trade and justice. |
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World Bank |
Formally the international bank for reconstruction and development, an organization that was established in 1944 as a source of loans to help reconstruct the European economies. Later, the main borrowers were 3rd world countries and in the 1990s, Eastern European ones. |
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European Space Agency |
The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, with 20 member states. |
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Democracy |
A regime where a government is completely responsive to its people and all citizens are political equals. |
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Third Wave of Democratization |
refers to the third major surge of democracy in history 1974-???? |
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Democracy Promotion |
Monetary Aid to weak democracies and pro-democracy organizations. Unfriendly to autocrats: military aid, embargos. Nation building |
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Nation Building |
Goal: Regime change. Methods: deployment of ground troops, political administration by external country's civilian and military officials. |
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4 nation building successes |
Japan, West Germany, Grenada, and Panama |
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How is the success of nation building measured? |
If the state is still democratic after 10 years of U.S. forces and personel depart. |
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3 theories of democratization |
modernization theory, elite negotiation, and class conflict |
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Modernization theory |
refers to a model of a progressive transition from a 'pre-modern' or 'traditional' to a 'modern' society. |
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Elite Negotiation |
The theory posits that a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks, holds the most power and that this power is independent of a state's democratic elections process. |
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Class conflict |
Disparity between rich and poor. |
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Realism |
Dominance, Power to compel and deter. |
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Liberalism |
Reciprocity, working together. Support free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom of press, religion, etc. |
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Constrictivism |
Identity, loyalty. Historically and socially constructed. |
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Globalization |
is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. |
