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Global #1
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Undergraduate 1
02/24/2010

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Economics
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trade goods and services that can increase foreign investment
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MNCs
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multi-national corporation. buisiness conducting business globally; little pay with big profit
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Economic Liberalism
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have business become more wealthy, more on business indivualism
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Classical Liberalism
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focused more on people's rights and freedom
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Adam Smith
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Wrote the wealth of nations in 1776; he believes that free markets are important for all citizens for mostly freedom and rights
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FACT: Globalization consist of ..
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economics, politics, and culture
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NGO
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non-governmental democracy oraganizations; examples red cross & green peace, & amnesty international (mostly concerned with human rights)
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IGO
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intergovernmental organizations
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The UN
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created to stop wars. states come together and negotiate & are alowed to interfere in humanitarian issues without consent
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Robert Keonane
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complex independence
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Cees Hamelink
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wrote a book and observed old and new cultures mixing (Example: Singapore does traditional dances to rock music)
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competitive authoritharism
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feels democracy is not going to happen everywhere bc russia isn't a democracy or dictatorship and they are not changing.
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clash of civilizations
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Sam Huntington believed we would have alotta conflict bc culture differences claims this will be the reason of future wars
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FACT:
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For every $1 an american man makes, an american woman makes 70 cents
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Cynthia Ehloe
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Argues tourism women are in control bc they have jobs like maids and whores
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Patriarchy
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When men are in power
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Jong
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(1998) He looked at articles on feminism and found 119 that demeaned feminism.
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Name 3 MYTHS about feminism
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1 = it is not real science, propaganda. 2 = it is a middle class thing4 white women. 3 = only worried about women and issues
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Radical feminism
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Oppressive system, women should break and abandon their role
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androgyny
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No distinctive way of saying male or female. (No sex, no dominance)
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Eco feminism
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Connection of women and nature (Ex: forest is a she)
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global feminism
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look at women off a rich european perspective and doesn't look at the different struggles colored women went through
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Kristof
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writer for NY times that talks about 3rd world problems like the issues poeple will or have faced.
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Socially constructed
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Something is a product of its time and historical social stances
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Informal economy
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under the table type of jobs (ex: drug dealer)
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