Exam 29: A World Without Walls: Globalization and the West

Globalization has generated discussions concerning:

In the postcolonial world of the 1960s,many in the Islamic world,led by the cleric _________,laid the blame for the moral failure of the Arab world at the feet of the West and centuries of colonial contact.

To what does the term postcolonial refer?

By the late twentieth century,health officials' worries that a disease would spread to epidemic proportions much more quickly due to accelerated rates of travel were confirmed by:

In 1979,twenty-five years after he came to power in a coup,Iran's _________ simply retired from public life and left his country in a power vacuum.

The reclamation of Hong Kong from the British in 1997 was part of a plan to establish semicapitalist commercial zones around major cities in China.

The Israeli leader who negotiated the 1978 peace accord was:

In the mid-1970s,a long recessionary period in Western economies was triggered by:

Poorer postcolonial regions have found a profitable market in the West through the adoption of illegal forms of commerce.

The powers of the Pacific Rim were given the nickname "the Tigers" for their aggressive economic policies and ability to "pounce" upon open contracts for Western goods due to their cheap labor.

In reality,very little has changed in the last century for the people of former colonies.

In the 1990s,the Islamic government of Iran found its strongest opposition coming from:

The terrorist organization al-Qaeda was created by Islamic military leaders who had fought against the foreign occupation of:

In 1979,militant students stormed the American embassy in Iran,taking fifty-two hostages.The deaths of the hostages during the negotiation process resulted in a policy on non-negotiation for all future hostage situations.

The term checkerboard of poverty and affluence refers to the presence of wealthy countries among poverty-stricken ones.

In what ways did the Internet share the features of earlier print revolutions?

One of the first Islamic groups in the 1970s to profess anticolonial politics mixed with works of charity and violently fundamentalist Islam beliefs was:

The recent global economic crisis has sparked new debates in the past few years that have centered on a belief in:

Ethnic conflicts that had been dampened for some time were reignited in the 1990s in Indonesia due to:

The Mujahidin were religious fighters who gained their reputation in fighting against: