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What are supranational organization? | A group of independent countries joined together for purposed of mutual interest. | Describe the five stages of the Rostow Development Model. What are some weaknesses of the model. | Traditionary Society,The precondtions for takeoff,The takeoff,The Drive to maturity, The age of mass consumption. | What evidence is there that public spaces are becoming more exclusionary? why does Mitchell say this is happing? | |
Distinguish between colonialism and imperialism? | Colonialism-attempt by a country to establish settlements. Imperialism: control od territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society. | What have been the benefits of the international trade approach to development? What have been some drawbacks? | | | |
What are six stratigies for occupying territory did Osterhammel outline? Describle each. | | How do developing countries finance development? | | | |
How are borders and frontiers different? | Borders:Allow territory to be defined and controlled, both inclusionary and exclusionary. Frontier: areas or regions with gray area of borders, states have little or no control. | What three type pf colonies did he identify? Provide an example of each. | | Describle "peack oil". what are some of the ptential substitutes for petroleum. | The point in time when the max rate of global petrolem extraction is reache, after rate of productions enters terminal decline. Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear energy. |
What are the different cultural physical rationales for choosing specific political borders? | Physical rationales: mountains,desert, and water. | What are the ways development is measured? | GDP per capita (economic factor),Literacy rate ( social factor), Amount of Education (social factor),life expenctancy (demographic factor) | why has the Aral Sea drying up? | Dried up because of Cotton Irrigration |
What is 'Nation'? What is nationalism? | Nation:people whose members are bond together by sense of solidarity rooted and historic attatchment to homeland. Nationalism: a feeling of belonging to the nation. | Compare and Contrast the GDI and GEM measures of gender inequality? | Gender empowerment measure:comparesablity of women & men to participate in economic & political decision making. Gender Related Development Index: compares level of developement of women with that of both sexes. | What are the differences between Fordism and Post-Fordism? What were the triggers the caused the shift from one to the other? | Fordism: factories traditionally assigned each worker ine specfic task to perform repeatedly. Post Fordist: flexible production is sometimes used to describe flexible production, contrast of forism. |
What are the Characterisitisc of a "nation-state", a "multi-national" state and a "state-less" nation? three examples | Denmark, Japan "Multi-national"-United States,United Kingdom,Russia "State-less"-kurdistan. | Where are more and less development countrie distributed? | More Developed Regions: Anglo America, western europe, Eastern Europe, Japan, South Pacific Less: latin america,East Asia,Southeast Asia, Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa | What are the five spaces can be altered to become more exclusionary? | Stealthy Space,Slippery Space,Crusty Space, Prickly Space, and Jittery Space |