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

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

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

Turkey' international memberships include all except:

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

By the end of the twentieth century,East Asia had become a center of industrial and manufacturing production.

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:

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.

Although there is a sharp divide between the most successful global players and the poorer,disadvantaged states and cultures,the poorer states have been able to respond to a very profitable market in the West in one area of manufacture,that of:

To what does the term postcolonial refer?

The European Union:

In what ways were the September 11,2001,attacks on the United States the product of a new brand of terror born from globalization?

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

Compare and contrast the threats posed to the West by state actors like North Korea,Iraq,and Iran,and non-state actors like al Qaeda.

Sayyid Qutb argued the elites of the new Arab states pursued policies that frayed local and family bonds,deepening economic divides while abandoning the government's responsibility for charity and stability.

Can historians predict the future by studying the past?

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.

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.

What were the effects of independence from colonialism in Africa?

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

Global health in the twentieth century: