1+ fact per case study (MIS)

Question 1

China neocolonial intervention in Africa

Answer 1

Aids in water abstraction in Ethiopia
- Grand Renaissance dam
- US$13.7 billion in debt to China

Question 2

Singapore’s strict migrant policy

Answer 2

Demand for skilled workers only

2015: 22% or workers were non-residential (temporary migrants)

pop/n: 5 million (lots of ethnic diversity)

Question 3

Japan’s closed-door non-immigration policy

Answer 3

Shrinking, ageing workforce
Homogenous population with strong cultural values

Question 4

Australia’s migration policy

Answer 4

Point-based system: The migration programme

2013: only 190,000 economic migrants granted access

Question 5

Migration in the Mediterranean

Answer 5

Illegal migration started in 2006, spiked in 2010s

1 million attempted to cross in 2016

Migrants: economic migrants & refugees of varying faiths from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Syria

approx 37,000 deaths in 2014

Question 6

South Africa assimilation

Answer 6

30 years since abolishment of apartheid: still in segregation

Question 7

Poland emigration

Answer 7

Encouraged outward migration
- Remittances to cover short-term labour loss and brain-drain

Emigration of Poles to OECD countries decreased by -8% in 2019
- Stabilised

Question 8

Assimilation in Germany

Answer 8

Difficult given Germany’s prejudice to Turkish people.

Germany sensitive after:
- 2 world wars
- 2 Dictatorships
- Holocaust

Ageing workforce

Assimilation made difficult due to historical debacles.

Question 9

Singapore assimilation

Answer 9

Makes use of colonial past and globalised present

Independence achieved in 1965

Orchestrated attempts to create tension in 1964 before gaining independence

Question 10

Democratic Republic of Congo

Answer 10

Current (2023): Wagner mercenaries sent incur casualties to Tutsi rebels in the DRC

1870 - 1960: Colonised by Belgium for raw materials

Neither a democracy or a republic.

In constant conflict since becoming a nation state: vulnerable with raw materials

Question 11

Iceland

Answer 11

Independence from Denmark in 1944

74% of pop/n in Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland

Self-sufficient

pop/n: 81.3% Icelandic

Question 12

India & Pakistan

Answer 12

Geopolitical dispute over Kashmir

Resolved, with a ceremony held every evening at the Wagah border

Question 13

Taiwan & China

Answer 13

Nationalist Taiwan gained independence in 1950

The former prefers democracy while the latter prefers autocracy

Taiwanese businesses are large investors in China: interdependence despite political dissonance.

Question 14

Ukraine & Crimea

Answer 14

Ukraine is physically connected to Crimea

Conflict between Ukraine and Russia in 2014. Russia annexes Ukraine

58% of Crimea: ethnic Russians

Question 15

Sudan

Answer 15

Conflict between leading militia and Rapid Support Force in Khartoum (2023)

Ceasefire enacted

Communities opposing nation state authorities

Question 16

South Sudan

Answer 16

Split from British-colonised northern counterpart in 1884-1885

Civil War - 1955

Independence in 1956

Question 17

UN intervention in DRC

Answer 17

20,000 personnel deployed by UN in peacekeeping operation against new rebel group

spoke nothing on the Rwandan genocide

Question 18

Sanctioning Russia

Answer 18

For annexing Ukraine for control of Crimea

Unsustainable given 2022 conflict between the two

Question 19

Tax haven example

Answer 19

Caiman Islands

Question 20

Jamaica

Answer 20

$4.5b owed to IMF to World Bank and IADB
Rising debt payments (16% - 40%, 1977 - 1984)
$1.85tr total debt in 2015

Question 21

Tanzania

Answer 21

Water services in disrepair in 1990s

The capital’s water services handed over to British-led-consortium: City Water

Strict water bills

Tanzanian government broke the contract in 2005

2012: Indian Bank gave $178m USD loan for water projects

Tanzania won $3m damages from Biwater subsidiary

Question 22

Serbia & IMF intervention

Answer 22

Three year program (2015 - 2018)
- Cost $1.32b

Suffered from 2008 global financial crisis - Rapid build-up of debt

2017: Fiscal accounts boosted to a surplus: first in 10+ years.

Inflation of currency dropped by 5%

Question 23

IGOs attempting to fix economic issues

Answer 23

SAP in Jamaica
Intervention in Serbia
- post 2008 economic crash

Question 24

IGOs attempting to manage environmental issues

Answer 24

WWF and IPCC
- IPCC generates annual reports

COP summits
- Kyoto & Montreal protocols

Antarctic Treaty in tandem with Bretton Woods instantiation
- Created a medium post WW2

Global Environmental Facility (GEF) is a funding mechanism for environmental projects
- Since 1992 has raised $17 billion and attracted over $80 billion more from private individuals and businesses