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Globalization Midterm Review Part A: 

Which of the following is an example of globophobia?

• How many stages are there in Therborn’s Epochs? 6 • What is globalization from below? Individual actors and groups of actors acting to oppose globalization. • What is the definition of a solid? people, things, information and places “harden” over time and therefore have limited mobility • What is the difference between a skeptic and a globalist? One believes globalization exists and the other does not • Which of the following films represents a dystopia? • Who did Peter Griffin blame for 9/11? Women airline pilot • What was the epoch of the 1960s – 1990s mainly concerned with? Inclusion of the Third World into global affairs • What are hops? Places of the world that are impacted by globalization alongside those that are not • What is one of the largest non-democratic global organizations? IOC • What do skeptics argue with about the nation-state in recent years? • Why are so many multinational corporations Irish? Tax loopholes • Which state is a tax haven in the US? Delaware • What is a recent change that illuminates globalization? Increase in Shipping Routes • Which of the following is not a type of globalization? economic, political, cultural, religion, science, health, sport, education. • What is Lou Dobbs position on globalization? Globophobia – immigration and outsourcing of jobs The IMF an example of a:IGO • What is the difference between globophobia and globophilia? Focus on negative effects vs positive effects of globalization • What is the significance of the letter S? Globalization vs Globalizations – latter happens in relation to where you are and what circumstances you have. • What is an NGO? What is an MNC? Non-governmental organization, Multinational Corporation

• An example of alter globalization is: whose proponents support global cooperation and interaction, but oppose what they describe as the negative effects of economic globalization, feeling that it often works to the detriment of, or does not adequately promote, human values such as environmental and climate protection, economic justice, labor protection, protection of indigenous cultures, peace and civil liberties. • Which of the following describes a globalist? • Marxist saying that “ everything solid melts into air” relates to: Liquids metaphor • Which organization is an example of an IGO? IMF • What are the two things we can do about globalization? Nothing, Everything, status quo, much more • How does the state play a role in globalization? Economic liberalization,Control of flows (migration/drugs/sex trade), Ability to regulate/deregulate • 1+1=? • What is not an effect of 9/11: resurgence importance of the border, Heightened policing of state populations, Increased management and control of global population flows, New and resurgent ethnocentric/racist/stereotyping • What’s the difference between globalization and transnationalism? • What are the beginnings to globalization? • What is the difference between a hop and a flow? Flow • what sport is example of trans-nationalism? Equestrian riding What was characterized as the dumbest definition in the textbook? Development • What year did Americanization switch from capacious to resonant? 1971- Nixon gold standard • Which of these is not an example of Americanization? • What is new imperialism? • What is McDonaldization? • When did Nixon take US off the gold standard? 1971 • What is settler colonialism? Foreign power oversees the family settlement of immigrants often through depopulation.s • Which isn’t a form of Americanization? • What is an example of hybridity? Cuisine, language , Bend it like Meckham • where the five dimensions of colonialism? • What’s the difference between colonialism and imperialism? • What is an example of Easternization?

• In which our Japanese influences seen outside Japan? • What day is this class on? • what are the five types of Americanization? • What best describes Lenin’s theory of imperialism? How is neoliberalism seen in government policy? • Why was Canada included in the G6? To help balance US power interests • What did Milton Friedman state about greed? • What are Hegel’s non-governmental social actor’s? • What are INGOs bad at? • What do MNCs do? • What is the UN body that deals with trade and development? • What is the relationship between globalization and neoliberalism? • What term did Bush attempt to define? Sovereignty. • What is a problem with sovereignty? • Which one of the following is the most significant/prominent form of globalization? • Which of the origins of globalization is most generally accepted? Which is not related with neoliberalism? • what was the first INGO? • who is associated with classic liberalism? • What is Keynesianism? • What is seen as civil society? • What is UNESCO? • what did the IMF recommends for Mongolia? Privatize yak production • Who was the woman who promoted the idea of human rights? Eleanor Roosevelt • What is the only country that may not be able to demand human rights? • What does capitalism assume? • which province in Canada likes free trade the most? • Who is Milton Friedman? • why is the 1970s crisis important?

• what is the gold standard? • what are two major criticisms of neoliberalism? Populr Ress What does an export processing zone look socially similar to? Free speech zones • What is the threshold of debt the causes panic? 90% • How are flows threat to nation-states? • what does it mean for state to remove sovereignty from certain geographic areas? • What are the consequences of free trade? • Which of the following is an example of the use of the shock doctrine? • What is the legal status of Guantánamo Bay under US law? The United States exercises complete jurisdiction and control over this territory, while recognizing that Cuba retains ultimate sovereignty. • What is the Washington consensus? This is the set of 10 policies that the US government and the international financial institutions based in the US capital believed were necessary elements of “first stage policy reform” that all countries should adopt to increase economic growth. • What two world leaders initiated the era of neoliberalism in the 1980s? Thatcher and Reagan • Why is it called market fundamentalism? rests on belief in the success of free markets – beliefs are not refutable • Who are the members of the G8? • What are the four fractions of the transnational capitalist class? Corporate fraction - executives, State fraction - interstate bureaucrats/G20/APEC, Technical fraction - globalizing professionals, Consumerist fraction - merchant and media executives • What is a nation-state?...