Exam 31: A Fragile Capitalist-Democratic World Order, 1991-2014

Recep Erdoğan's party, AKP, garnered slightly more than half of the vote, on which basis they

In Syria, hopes for an Arab Spring were dashed almost immediately by the horrific violence inflicted by its leader, ________ al-Assad.

Since the early 2000s, the so-called BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, and China, as well as Turkey and _______, have been added to the first tier of global economic powers.

One of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was Tawakkol Karman, leader of the Women Journalists Without Chains protest movement in ______.

The revolution against Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was launched by the April 6 Youth Movement, a ________ group composed of social and political activists.

The policies of "globalization" were shaped and directed, in great measure, by the advisors of US President ______ in the 1990s.

Which of the following was NOT a component of the criticism related to globalization?

Republicans in the US Congress shut down the government for 16 days in 2013 in a failed effort to defund the ________ Health Care Act, passed into law in 2010.

In August 2008, Putin provoked the former Soviet republic of ________, which was on track for admission into NATO, into a conflict that resulted in Russian control over one-fifth of its territory.

In 2000, about _______ of the world's population of 6 billion lived in fully industrialized countries, two-thirds in middle-income countries, and 15 percent in poor countries.

In the 1990s, _________________ became an entirely new branch of industry.

As in many other places in the past decade, young people in ________ demonstrated a faith in democracy in 2009.

After a Turkish military coup attempt in July 2016

Two recessions in the first decade of the 2000s in the U.S. were centered upon what industries?

Despite the success of the middle class in _________, almost three quarters of the population still lived in villages with poor or no water, electricity, and roads at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The global recession began in 2008 with a(n):

As a result of overproduction on the world market, commodity prices were depressed through most of the 1990s. The price depression imposed severe budget cutbacks on many poor countries, with consequent unemployment, middle-class shrinkage, reduction in education, and a rise in __________.

The most extreme example of a nation going against the grain of the twenty-first century, North Korea forces adults to subsist on ____ calories daily, as compared to 2000-2500 among Europeans.

Which Middle Eastern country has largely escaped Islamist militancy?

By the 1990s, the United States' economy had become an even deeper "sinkhole", this time for textiles, toys, and simple electrical and electronic devices made in _____.