MIDTERM EXAM

Question 1

Wider gap between the rich and poor countries - poor countries become ______; rich countries become _______.

Answer 1

poorer, richer

Question 2

How many individuals live in extreme poverty?

Answer 2

800 million individuals

Question 3

People who live in extreme poverty are mostly in what areas?

Answer 3

Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Question 4

Global Divides: East and the West. True or False?

Answer 4

False. North and the South

Question 5

What was the reason for the creation of two different worlds; North and South.

Answer 5

Unfair distribution of global wealth and income.

Question 6

North: poor; South: rich. True or False?

Answer 6

False. North: rich ; South: poor.

Question 7

What world has not been able to eliminate poverty, hunger, disease, squalor, and ignorance?

Answer 7

The poor world, South.

Question 8

How many percent of the manufacturing industry is located in the North?

Answer 8

90%

Question 9

Are the countries of the South are economically dependent on the North? True or False. If so, how?

Answer 9

True. Countries of the south offer the raw materials and labour to the North, then become the consumer of the finished product( on a higher price).

Question 10

Most countries of the South were colonies of the North. True or False.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Also known as world politics.

Answer 11

Global politics

Question 12

It names both the disciple that studies the political and economic patters of the world and the field that is being studied.

Answer 12

Global politics

Question 13

global means ______, having planetary (not merely regional or national).

Answer 13

worldwide

Question 14

It refers to the politics that is conducted at a global rather than national significance. For example, UN has universal membership.

Answer 14

Global politics

Question 15

What is the second meaning of Global politics?

Answer 15

Global means comprehensive, it refers to all the elements within a system, not just to the system as a whole.

Question 16

What should be described to International politics?

Answer 16

inner-state politics

Question 17

What are the four qualities that a state must possess?

Answer 17

a defined territory
a permanent population
an effective government
the capacity to enter into relations with other states

Question 18

Since when that the states were taken on world stage?

Answer 18

since the Peace of Westphalia (1648)

Question 19

States are not the only significant actors on the world stage anymore, what else?

Answer 19

Transnational corporations (TNC)
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
other-state bodies influence politics.

Question 20

Since states are not the only actors in the world stage anymore, can TNC or NGO rival the state’s coercive power?

Answer 20

No.

Question 21

What were the 3 contemporary and central phenomena that changed the International order?

Answer 21

• the fall of the Berlin wall. (1989)
• the attack on the New York World Trade Center’s twin towers. (2001)
• crash of wall street (2008)

Question 22

When did the International order created that was changed by the 3 contemporary and central phenomena?

Answer 22

after the World War 2

Question 23

The forms of politics are all about what?

Answer 23

Power

Question 24

A movement towards political cooperation among transnational actors, aimed at negotiating responses to problems that affects more than one state or region.

Answer 24

Global governance

Question 25

What countries have accepted constitutionalism, division of power, political parties, a competitive election system, freedom of the press, the protection of civil rights and freedom of assembly.

Answer 25

Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia

Question 26

What are the goals of global governance?

Answer 26

Provide global public goods, particularly peace and security, justice and mediation systems for conflict, functioning markets and unified standards for trade and industry.

Question 27

How many members does UN currently have?

Answer 27

193 members

Question 28

What is the leading institution in charge of global governance?

Answer 28

The UN

Question 29

To preserve a global security is UN's main mandate. True or False?

Answer 29

True. Through the UN's Security Council, UN's main mandate is to preserve a global security.

Question 30

A product of economic interaction, not a political planning.

Answer 30

Asian Regionalism

Question 31

Using outward oriented growth strategies, ________economies have grown richer, and closer.

Answer 31

Asian

Question 32

People's Republic of China (PRC) & India and the region in global economy.

Answer 32

They strengthened ties among Asian Regionalism.

Question 33

In the early stages of Asia's economic take off, East Asian economies focused on what?

Answer 33

exporting to developed country markets.

Question 34

In the early stages of Asia's economic take off, regional integration proceeded slowly. True or False?

Answer 34

True.

Question 35

Who compared the pattern of development of the East Asian countries to flying geese?

Answer 35

The Japanese economist, Akamatsu (1962)

Question 36

In this model described by Akamatsu, what was the reason why economies moved in formation?

Answer 36

It is not because they were directly linked to each other, but because they followed the same path.

Question 37

What was the reason why Asian economies did not initially yield strong economic links within Asia itself?

Answer 37

Because the economic developments paths were hinged on sequential- and sometimes competing- ties to markets outside the region.

Question 38

By the mid- 1990s , the PRC accounted for ___% of Asian trade and ___% of the region's foreign direct investments.

Answer 38

20% and 70%

Question 39

FDI stands for?

Answer 39

Foreign Direct Investments

Question 40

The growth of PRC helped to catalyse the development of regional production networks. True or False?

Answer 40

True

Question 41

Not natural, but constructed, and defined by policymakers, economic actors, and even social movements.

Answer 41

Regions

Question 42

group of countries located in the same geographically specified area or an amalgamation of two regions .

Answer 42

Regions

Question 43

Refers to the regional concentration of economic flows.

Answer 43

Regionalization

Question 44

It is a political process characterized by economic policy cooperation among countries.

Answer 44

Regionalism

Question 45

Why countries form regional associations?

Answer 45

- military defense (NATO) - to pool resources, get better returns for their exports, and expand their leverage against trading partners (OPEC) - to protect their independence from the pressures of superpower politics - economic crises compels countries to come together.

Question 46

What does OPEC stands for?

Answer 46

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Question 47

What does NATO stands for?

Answer 47

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 48

What does ASEAN stands for?

Answer 48

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Question 49

What are the contemporary challenges to Regionalism?

Answer 49

- resurgence of militant nationalism - financial crisis - contries' disagreement whether which country should sacrifice their sovereignty - differing visions of what regionalism should be.

Question 50

What is the meaning of militant nationalism?

Answer 50

Militant nationalism basically means loving one's own country and hating the others. This is the emotion behind the first world war.

Question 51

A set of beliefs and practices which help human beings in achieving mental harmony with greater powers.

Answer 51

Religion

Question 52

Religion is a unified set of beliefs and practices related to sacred things.

Answer 52

"Religion", according to Emile Durkheim, a French Sociologist

Question 53

He defined religion as a system of symbols which acts to establish power in men.

Answer 53

Clifford Geertz

Question 54

What is the largest religion of the world in terms of number of adherents and geographical spread?

Answer 54

Christianity

Question 55

When did Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism or as Jewish sect in Roman province?

Answer 55

1st Century A.D.

Question 56

When did Christianity emerge as State religion of Roman empire?

Answer 56

by the end of 4th Century

Question 57

Much more than culture, _______ has the most difficult relationship with globalism?

Answer 57

Religion

Question 58

Places value on material wealth

Answer 58

Globalism

Question 59

Religion: Follows divine commandments; Globalism: Abides by human laws. True or False?

Answer 59

True

Question 60

Refers to how much of human action can lead to the highest material satisfaction that this new status produces.

Answer 60

Yardstick

Question 61

Who/ What defines and judges human action in moral terms ( good vs bad)?

Answer 61

God, Allah, or Yahweh

Question 62

What is the main duty of a person in terms in religion?

Answer 62

Live a virtuous, sinless life such that it is assured that s/he has a place in the other world.

Question 63

They detests politics and the quest for power for they are the evidence of humanity's weakness.

Answer 63

The religious

Question 64

It is a form of globalization, spreading of holy ideas globally (ideoscape).

Answer 64

Religious Evangelization

Question 65

Who wish to spread goods and services and is focused on markets?

Answer 65

The globalists

Question 66

Contemporary world is religious with proliferation of major religious traditions . What are they?

Answer 66

Christianity Islam Judaism Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism

Question 67

The foundation of modern republics.

Answer 67

Religions

Question 68

What is the superior form of government because it is spiritual?

Answer 68

Islamic Rule. based on Khomeini of Iran

Question 69

_____ and _____ see globalization less as an obstacle and more as an opportunity to expand their reach.

Answer 69

Christianity and Islam

Question 70

What is the muslim association in Indonesia that has Islamic schools where students are taught not only Islam but also about modern science and such?

Answer 70

Nahdlatul Ulama

Question 71

It entails the spread of various cultures; involves the spread of ideas.

Answer 71

Globalization

Question 72

Means of conveying something, such as channel or communication.

Answer 72

Media

Question 73

One of the oldest and basic forms of communication.

Answer 73

Print Media

Question 74

What are the 3 types of media?

Answer 74

Print Media Broadcast Media Digital Media

Question 75

The distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum.

Answer 75

Broadcast Media

Question 76

Any media that are encoded in machine-readable formats. Viewed, modified, and preserved on digital electronic devices.

Answer 76

Digital Media

Question 77

Worldwide integration of media through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas.

Answer 77

Media globalization

Question 78

Cross cultural dev't & exchange of technology.

Answer 78

Technological globalization

Question 79

A euphemism for "Western cultural imperialism" since it promotes "homogenized, Westernized, consumer culture".

Answer 79

Cultural globalization

Question 80

Can be defined as a doctrine, political strategy, or advocacy that consists in extending power by territorial acquisition.

Answer 80

Imperialism

Question 81

The promotion and imposition of a politically powerful culture over a less powerful nation.

Answer 81

Cultural Imperialism

Question 82

Media Imperialism has a much wider scope than cultural imperialism. True or False?

Answer 82

False. Cultural Imperialism bas a much wider scope.

Question 83

The over-concentration of mass media from larger nations, negatively affecting less powerful nations.

Answer 83

Media Imperialism

Question 84

Cultural Imperialism take various form such as?

Answer 84

Formal policy, media, attitudes or military action

Question 85

Media Imperialism mainly takes place through

Answer 85

mass media, e.g., news channels, western movies, etc.

Question 86

What are 5 ways to spot disinformation online?

Answer 86

- Is it this the original account, or piece of content? (fact-check) - Who shared... - When was the news created.. ( - What account is sharing, could it be a bot? (find out about the other socials of the sharer. ) - Why was the post shared? (inspect the content)

Question 87

Religious movements do not hesitate to appropriate secular themes and practices. True or False?

Answer 87

True

Question 88

Media globalization is a one directional process. True or False?

Answer 88

False. People are active on "meaning-making process", may interpret the media messages in several ways depending on their perspectives.