MODULE 3 END OF MODULE TEST Flashcards
This describes the decentralization of competencies or the establishment of regional institutions by the state.
Top - Down Regionalism
They are largely characterized as poor and underdeveloped. In these countries, low levels of education, poor infrastructure, improper sanitation
and poor access to health care mean living conditions are seen as inferior to those in the world’s more developed nations.
Third World Countries
This is the term for colonies in the Asia pacific and South Asia influenced the West and vice versa.
Laboratories of Modernity
It includes some of the world’s most economically developed states such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, and highly impoverished countries such as Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal.
The Asia Pacific and South Asia
This aims to develop and maintain cooperation with outside actors. This is meant to resolve the tension between the rise of regional trade agreements and the push for global trade as embodied by World Trade
Organization (WTO).
Open Regionalism
This is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
This refers to these countries’ “interconnected histories
of colonialism, neo-imperialism, and differential economic and social change through which large inequalities in living standards, life expectancy, and access to resources are maintain
Global South
They occupy different positions in their respective societies as well as in relation to their nation-states as they constitute the expanding regional consumer market
Middle-class
They were created through growth in retail trade, manufacture, banking, real estate development, and an expanding range of specialist services
such as accounting, advertising, computing, and market research
New urban Philippine middle-classes
This is a foreign policy shift was implemented by the United States to commit more resources and attention to the region
Pacific Pivot
ToF: Contemporary critics of neo-liberal globalization use the north devides as a banner to rally countries victimized by the violent economic cures of institutions like the International Monetary Fund
FALSE; Contemporary critics of neo-liberal globalization use the global south as a banner to rally countries victimized by the violent economic cures of institutions like
the International Monetary Fund
ToF: The Second World described countries whose views aligned with NATO and capitalism, and the Third World referred to countries that supported communism and the Soviet Union
FALSE; The First World described countries whose views aligned with NATO and capitalism, and the Second World referred to countries that supported communism and the Soviet Union
ToF: The ills of the global south are being globalized
TRUE; The ills of the global south are being globalized. Underdeveloped states of the global south are ravaged by merciless IMF policies in the 1980’s. The economic
prescriptions of the IMF as cures are recommended for countries in the global south
ToF: The strongest vehicle for social redistribution and the main mechanism for social transfer is regionalism
FALSE; The strongest vehicle for social redistribution and the main mechanism for social transfer is the state.
ToF: Spaces of underdevelopment in developed countries may mirror the poverty of the global south, and spaces of affluence mirror those of the global north.
TRUE
ToF: The global in global south does not only mean that the south is the globe but also signifies that the south has attained high globalization
FALSE; The global in global south does not only mean
that the south is the globe but also signifies that the south continues to be globalized
NOTE: Globalized implies that globalization is an active, continuing process that shapes and transforms the global south, rather than a static condition or end-state that has been fully “attained.”
ToF: .Globalization is the intensification of economic, political, social, and cultural relations across borders and a consciousness of that intensification, with a concomitant diminution in the significance of territorial boundaries.
TRUE
ToF: Globalization in the Asia Pacific and South Asia is an external phenomenon being pushed into the region by world powers like Grater Asia and the Americas.
FALSE; Globalization in the Asia Pacific and South Asia is an external phenomenon being pushed into the region by world powers like US and Europe
ToF: The global south is not relevant for those who live in countries traditionally associated with it but also signifies that the south continues to be globalized
FALSE; As a symbol and metaphor, global south is not only relevant for those who live in countries traditionally associated with it. The global in global south does not only mean that the south is the globe but also signifies that the south continues to be globalized.
NOTE: The difference lies in the use of “not only.” The actual answer emphasizes that the concept extends beyond a certain group, whereas the question downplays its relevance entirely for that group.
ToF: Regionalism refers to the centralization of political powers or competencies from a higher towards a lower political level.
FALSE; Regionalism refers to the decentralization of political powers or competencies from a higher towards a lower political level
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