Exam 20: A World Without Walls: Globalization and the West

In late 2015,195 nations,including the United States,came to a landmark agreement in Paris that committed nearly every country to limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

The post-World War II arrangements reached by the Allies at Bretton Woods steadily eroded in the late 1960s and effectively ended in 1971,when the United States:

One of the greatest advancements in medical research in the late twentieth century was the:

The Syrian Civil War:

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

Globalization has generated discussions concerning all of the following except:

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

Since 1987,Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank have been carrying on a low-level fight against the Israeli security forces.This is known as the:

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

Demographic studies indicate that the world's population is:

What is globalization?

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:

Many young Palestinians turned away from the secular PLO to radical Islam in anger over their elders' failures to provoke revolution and end the continued stalemate in Israel.

During the economic prosperity of the 1980s in the Pacific Rim,many countries treated the creation of general economic wealth and prosperity as:

Although many countries suffered from declining populations in the late twentieth century,the country that took a very sudden and potentially dangerous move in this direction was:

All are correct of Iran's new government of 1979 except:

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

The "neoliberal" economics of the 1970s stressed:

The United States was the first nation to ratify the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The development of the Internet has given rise to a new meaning for the expression: