Exam 18: The World-System Since 1945: Another Wave of Globalization, Hegemony, and Revolutions

As a result of reading this book you tell a friend that the United States is in decline and that the Dutch and the British were once hegemons and they too went into decline. You say this analysis is part of world-systems theory. You're friend accuses you of being unpatriotic. How would you answer them?

Discuss how the world revolution of 1917 shaped the nature of U.S. hegemony after World War II.

Discuss the ways in which the developments that occurred in 1989 can be understood as another world revolution.

Discuss the processes that strengthened nationalism after World War II.

The neoconservative policy of U.S. unilateral military intervention is most similar to:

The final wave of decolonization after World War II put an end to imperialism.

In what ways is the neoliberalism that emerged in the 1980s different from the policies of the New Deal in the 1930s?

John Maynard Keynes advocated which of the following economic policies

The great U-turn refers to:

The economist that most closely advocated most of the policies implemented by Franklin D.Roosevelt was

A country that led the movement to refuse to align with either the West or the Soviet Union and tried to build socialism independently was

The move away from mass production to "just in time" production following the Japanese model improved conditions for workers in the core.

There was a time in US history when a requirement for democratic participation was to own property.

Whether national independence movements were communist or not, the United States did not support them because their independence made them less likely to allow their resources to be exploited.

Given the recent developments of the Occupy movement in the United States and the European reactions to austerity programs since 2008, discuss the plausibility of: A) Fukuyama's claim that history is over and capitalism has won B) Margaret Thatcher's claim that there is no alternative to capitalism

Discuss the main causes of the "great U-turn" in the shape of income distributions within many core countries that occurred after the 1970s.

Wallerstein's description of the movement of declining hegemons from production of consumer goods to production of capital goods to production of financial services applies fairly well to the trajectory of the United States

In the second half of the 20ᵗʰ century the U.S. economy:

America's half century was characterized by:

Franklin D.Roosevelt's New Deal was successful because it addressed the needs of industrial and agricultural workers.