human superpower case studys Flashcards
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British Empire as a hard Empire
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- founded an expoloration and sea power
- royal navy dominated 1700-1930
- protected trading routes
2
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British Empire as a soft power
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british military personnel, civil servants and entrepreneurs emigrated to India
educated Indians occupied lower administrative positions
3
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How did the British Empire decline
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- economic decline- britain had overspent on war
- loss of military influence- heavy losses during the war
- loss of colonies- many colonies fought for the allies with their own independent armies
4
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Mackinder heartland theory
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- identified a region of Eurasia from Russia to China = heartland
- control of it meant control of the globe’s human and physical resources
- supports the global shift
5
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criticisms of Mackinder heartland theory
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- its inability to make allowances for technological advances
- railway as key in uniting the heartland, never happened
- advances in satellite, missile and atomic and technologies have overshadowed the strategic importance of physical geography
6
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the cold war 1947-1991 what was the worlds power during it
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bi-polar world
the USA and USSR
7
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what are critisisms of intellectual property
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- in october 2020, south africa and india proposed a broad waiver of COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatement
- In June 2022 the World Trade Organsiation provided for a partial waiver of intellectual property rights
- many developing countries still are prevented today from accessing the vaccine, as they lack access to other types od intellectual property such as trade secrets
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what are the environmental impacts are their from China and Africas relationship?
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- chinese imports of tropical timber have been linked with widespread illegal logging in Mozambique
- oil spills linked to Chinese- funded oil wells have been reported in Chad, Suddan, and Angola
- the extraction of the metallic ore coltan leads to widespread forest loss and river pollution
