POLS 131: FINAL EXAM
53 Cards in this Set
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Futureless graduate
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Growing student debt, protests across globe, youth unemployment very high
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Electronic Jacobins
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Tweeters and Livestreamers, Transparency advocate: Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Anonymous
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"Wretched of Earth"
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People living in poverty, use social networking and mobile phones to connect
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Arab Spring
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Libya, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, US government funded many of the dictatorships in this region especially Egypt
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Russian Expansion
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Crimea "votes" to join Russia
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Russia in Middle East
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Putin and Russia actively support Assad
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Protests in Ukraine
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Euromaiden, Pres. Yanukovych disappears then voted out of office, Pro-russian Ukrainian's take over Crimea and with support of Russia Crimea is annexed and turned over to Russia, EU and US announce sanctions against Russia, US does not recognize Crimea as part of Russia
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Greece Debt Problem
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Took out massive loans for Olympics in 2004, part of Euro and cannot lower interest rates without approval of rest of Euro, Greece also cannot lower price of currency to make things cheeper and boost sales
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Austerity
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require cuts in social spending(welfare,education, etc.)
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Spain Seceding
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The Basques, Catolina, Asturias,
Over 70 percent of residents in Catolina consider themselves independent from Spain
Basque Seperatists have used terrorists tactics (1970-2010)
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Why is College So Expensive
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Cuts to education funding, college is paid for mostly with growing loans, cost of university in general
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Rend Lines for student loans and employment
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Rising tuition and debt, dropping employment rate
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Slums
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In giant Cities in Global South, informal urban space that contains poverty and lack of services
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Slum Contributions
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Cheap Housing, and space for informal manufacturing and other economic activities
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Precariat
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Service workers, flexible, affective (nannies, nurses, flight attendants, etc.), also largely in debt
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Currency 21st Century
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Owners, Users, Makers, Political Institutions
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Capital
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Money/Other material assets, Social Capital, Political Capital, Natural Capital
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Advertising
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How to make a consumer buy an item
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Consumerism
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Megamalls, GDP at 8-10 percent in China, Environmental Cost
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Rapidly Developing Middle Class
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India, China
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Industrial Working Class
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Mobility, Segmentatition, Discipline, Resistance and Agitation
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Modern Slavery
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Indentured servants, Sex trade, Wage Slavery
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Chinese Working Conditions
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Low wages, large industrial section, suicide(foxconn plant)
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Owners of Capital
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Trader/Merchant, Banker/financier, Manufacturer, Diversification
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Capitalist Domination
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Requires large Money upfront
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Finance
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Rise of banks, stock and bond market, and public credit
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Manufacturing
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Adam Smith argued for free trade of manufactured good
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States
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Defined territory, capacity to enter into relations with other states
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Sovereignty
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right to rule a territory
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Nationalism
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solidarity and affection of country
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Examples of Nationalism
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Nation Anthem, Flag
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Nationalism WW1
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no more land to divide up, arms racing and military build up
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Push/Pull in Migration
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Economic activity or political/environmental crisis= push
cheep workers, families, lack of population =pull
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Poverty/Hunger
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3 billion people live on less than 2 dollars a day, 800-1 billion people have malnutrition
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Causes of Malnutrition/Hunger
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Not overpopulation,
unemployment and high food prices as well as inefficient transportation are causes
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Export Crops
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crops that are exported that could be used locally
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Informal Economy
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Prohibited or not recognized, drug trafficking,
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Millennium Development Goals
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Only ones that have been met: infant mortality rate reduced by two thirds in East Asia, reducing by half those without access to safe drinking water met by everywhere except Subsaharan Africa and Oceania
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Goals in 2016
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17 Sustainable Development Goals, more ambitious and less specific
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Difficulty in Fixing Climate Change
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Agriculture, fossil fuels, electricity
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Point of no return
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increase of 5 degrees celsius
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Steps taken to reverse climate
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Global Climate change treat 1992, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Climate Control Conference in November
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Infectious Diseases
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Swine flu, Ebola, ease of transmission to other hosts
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Fighting Infectious Disease
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WHO and CDC, collects data and works on creating vaccins
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Indigenous Communities
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Nomadic and Communalistic, lack of value for property ownership
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Ethnic Conflicts
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Indochina, Yugoslavia, Rwanda
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New Jim Crow
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Labor exploiting of African Americans, Mass incarnation of African Americans
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Rate of Incarceration
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Much higher in the United States compared to other countries, especially with African Americans
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What is Terrorism
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Acts of violence to instill fear and disrupt current regime
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Main Islamic Terrorist Groups
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Al Qaeda, ISIS, AQAP(Al-Qaeda Affiliate), AQIM(Al-Qaeda Affiliate), BOKO Haram(Affiliated with ISIS in Africa), Al SHABAAB(Affiliated with ISIS in Africa)
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Risk of Terrorism
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more likely to die from heart disease, a fall, a cop, lightning
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Main Islamic Terrorist Groups
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Al Qaeda, ISIS, AQAP(Al-Qaeda Affiliate),
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Main Islamic Terrorist Groups
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Al Qaeda, ISIS
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POLS 131: FINAL STUDY