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

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

How were South African politics decisively transformed in and after 1990?

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

Egypt and Israel brokered a peace agreement between themselves in 1978 with help from the American president:

One purpose used to justify the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the Iraqi program to develop weapons of mass destruction-primarily biological and nuclear-and the fear that such weapons would be given to terrorist groups.Although no such weapons were found,a similar threat from nuclear weapons remains present in:

On September 11,2001,one of the new terrorist organizations,_________,carried out an attack on the symbolic seat of "globalization," the United States.

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

How did Cold War politics and divisions affect the Middle East?

Egypt was denounced by Qutb as being morally corrupt due to its high population of Jews,illustrating that anti-Semitism,even in the 1960s,was far from absent in the Western world.

In what ways did oil give power to the former colonies of the West?

The Middle East has drawn more attention in recent years due to all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Indonesia is a predominantly Muslim country with a long tradition of tolerance and pluralism inside the faith.

One of the major influences in the postcolonial world prior to 1990 was:

Although South Africa made a relatively easy transition from apartheid to majority rule,other African countries had a much bloodier path to follow.For example,in the former Belgian colony of _________,over 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutus in a brutal display of ethnic violence.

Several international organizations have been founded to monitor the rights of individuals,and among these is:

The Islamic cleric,the Ayatollah _________,stepped into the 1979 power vacuum in Iran left by the resignation of the Western-friendly shah.

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

The contemporary language of human rights is anchored in a tradition of political thought that reaches back to the political philosophy of:

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

Rwanda was renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to distance itself from the atrocities committed in that country between the Hutus and the Tutsis.