Terms Chapters 1-2 Flashcards
Describes differences between a super power’s military technology and strategy to a lower one who use guerrilla warfare.
Asymmetrical warfare
The increasing interconnectedness of people and places converging processes of economic, political, and cultural change.
Globalization
An economy that gets vast amounts of money flow, but can not be sustained in the long run.
Bubble economy
Forces that pull away from the center
Centrifugal
Forces that keep a country or pull a country toward the center
Centripetal forces
Active promotion of one cultural system at the expense of another
Cultural imperialism
Protecting and defending a cultural system against diluting or offensive cultural expression while at the same time actively promoting national or local cultural values
Cultural nationalism
Blending forces to form a new, synergistic form of culture.
Cultural syncretism or hybridization
Agreement on a third language as common tongue, when two countries do not speak the same native language, trade language
Lingua Franca
An ideally relatively homogeneous cultural group with its own fully independent political territory
Nation-state
Percentage of a country’s population living in the cities
Urbanized population
Do global business through international subsidiaries, disrupt local ecosystems in their search for natural resources and manufacturing sites.
Transnational firm
Human caused pollution of lower atmosphere increasing natural greenhouse gases.
Anthropogenic
An increase In the temperature of earths atmosphere.
Global warming
Creating an envelope of warmth in earths atmosphere by trapping greenhouse gases.
Green house effect
