Add: For Prelims Flashcards
an imaginary division that has provided a rough way of dividing all of the countries in the world in to the rich north and poor south.
The Brandt Line
Another term for Global North
More Economically Developed Countries
Another term for Global South
Less Economically Developed Countries
considered richer and more developed regions of the world
Global North
considered poor and less developed regions of the world
some fast rising countries are now being called “Emerging Economies”
Global South
Blue:
Red:
Green:
1st World
2nd World
3rd World
“the important question may not be “what the global south is” but rather “for whom and under what conditions the global south becomes relevant”
Levander and Mignolo (2011)
The Global South is everywhere, but it is also somewhere and that somewhere, located at the intersection of entangled political geographies of dispossession and repossession.
Sparke (2007)
Global South is both a __________ and __________
reality and provisional work in progress
Terms like 3rd world, developing world, global south are all ways to represent __________
interstate inequalities
The term __________ is crucial because we are discussing imbalances of aggregate economic and political power between states.
interstate
Focus on the state and interstate dynamics creates a __________, which ignores the richness of __________
methodological narrowing
non-state politics
t or f: Not all of the formal colonial entities are states (IP’s)
true
t or f: There is a global south in the global north and vice versa
true
It is the establishment of colony in one territory by a political power from another territory
Colonialism
French mission
spread of civilization
US President __________ policy of ‘benevolent assimilation’ for the Philippines - colonialism with a smile
McKinley
It is often used to describe the Euro-American culture that arises out of the Enlightenment and continues in some way into the present.
Modernization
The term “__________” is also applied to the period beginning somewhere between 1870 and 1910, through the present, and even more specifically to the 1910-1960 period.
Modern
__________’s modernization theory became a key foreign policy precept of the Kennedy administration.
Outlined historical progress in terms of a society’s capacity to produce and consume material goods.
Walt Rostow
__________’s notions of “underdeveloped” and “Third World.” (1998)
Emerged as working concepts in the process by which the West (and the East) redefined themselves as the global power structure.
Arturo Escobar
__________’s theory of world politics (1996)
Claims that a ‘clash of civilizations’ is the main source of conflict in the post-cold war world, repeats many of colonial stereotypes associated with backward civilization.
Samuel Huntington
__________’s theory about ‘end of history’
Manifesting in the complete triumph of western capitalism and liberalism turns the west into the telos of political organization
Francis Fukuyama
__________ metaphor of the Lexus (2000)
Signifies a ‘fundamental, age-old human drive’ for sustenance, improvements, prosperity, and modernization’ is equated with ‘global markets, financial institutions and computer technologies.’
Thomas Friedman
Contends that ‘globalism’ is also ‘the dominant political belief system of out rime against which all of its challengers must define
themselves.’
Manfred Steger ideology (2005)
Over the past 20 years, another way the world measures global inequality is the _______________. This is a way of measuring human wellbeing around the world and includes health, education, and wealth
United Nations Human Development Index (HDI)
Global inequalities in food, health, education and income are caused by a combination of __________ and __________ factors.
physical and human
In 2000, developed countries agreed to give __________ of their Gross National Income (GNI) to aid for developing countries.
0.7 percent
_____ has the potential to be a powerful force to help address global inequality.
Trade
Global North - ___ countries who have high HDI
Global South - ___ countries who have low HDI
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_______________ is the sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad.
Gross national income (GNI)
Factors that affect the Development of the Global South
- Elite behavior within and between nation states;
- Integration and cooperation within ‘geographic’ areas
- And the resulting position of states and regions within the global world market and related political economic hierarchy
Global South is both an _____ and a ______
image
symbol
Globalization and the Asia Pacific and South Asia by: _______________
Ehito Kimura
Two Processes in Tension:
Acceleration of GLOBALIZATION (introduced and led by Western countries)
Emerging influence of Asia as a Global Force
NEITHER of the two processes in tension is __________
ABSOLUTE
Externalist view illustrating the way in which the region has been affected by globalization
Framework Part 1
Generative view showing how the region is an active agent in pushing the process of globalization forward
Framework Part 2
A perspective view showing how the region can be understood as posing an alternative to globalization
Framework Part 3
A process that transforms the Asia Pacific and South Asia
a force for good bringing economic development, political progress, and social and cultural diversity to the region
Globalization
Melaka in 1511
Portugese
Spaniards - Philippines - _____
1521
Dutch - East Indies
17th Century
British -
South Asia, Burma and the Malay peninsula
French - Indo - China
19th century
Opening to world market
increasing globalized economic system and benefitted from export oriented growth policies
Economy
Close ties between the state and business elite
Autonomous decision-making structure
Rise of manufacturing
Southeast Asian ‘tigers’
Substantial fall in authoritarian regimes with a corresponding rise in democratic regimes. This has been attributed to a number of factors including rising middle classes, a more globally connected world, and the end of the Cold War (Huntington, 1991)
Politics
Globalization is a form of cultural Westernization summer up in the term ‘McWorld’, MTV-ization or “Hollywoodization (Barber, 2002, Banks, 1997)
Culture
The future scope of ASEAN Plus Three cooperation would include, but not be limited to, the following areas:
(1) Political and Security Cooperation
(2) Economic and Financial Cooperation
(3) Energy, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Cooperation
(4) Socio-cultural and Development Cooperation
(5) establish an ASEAN Plus Three Cooperation Fund
