POLS 2401 Review Sheet, Test 3, Fall 2011

Note, you should be able to fully identify each of the following terms with a sharp definition, examples, and understanding of importance. Your second test will include questions that cover key aspects of these termsas covered in the readings, videos, or class discussions. Carry over items/Sects. I+II: Globalization Actors on the World Stage States/Nations/Nation-States Transnational actors IGOs Classic liberalism v. mercantilism v. socialism structuralism Power (hard, soft, ) Sovereignty IPE v. CPE Governments and Markets/Political Economy/ rules of the game Keynesianism Tragedy of the Commons Pros and Cons of Free Trade Comparative advantage Fiscal v. monetary policy Developed v. developing countries Colonial economic policies and consequences Bretton Woods/IMF/World Bank GATT/WTO US role/leadership after WWI and WWII Structural adjustment programs (SAPs)/fiscal resp./open trade/privatization Dependence on primary products Income inequality Challenges to development (esp in South Asia and Africa) State-led development/ISI Developmental State/Export Promotion Women in Development Sub-prime loans Credit default swaps Socialize gains/privatize losses Under-pricing risk US Financial Reform (what does the new bill include) NEW ITEMS: Demographic transition Population growth World pop. trajectory Population and the environment Women, Fertility rates, and Population Malthusianism Internal migration and migration across borders. Refugees Remittances Population policies/demographic transitions (esp. India and China) Aging populations Demographic dividend Infectious and non-infectious diseases. South Asia geography Religions and Languages Empires/British Raj Indian Diaspora Literacy rates Political Economic trends in India poverty, import substitution to liberalization, general outlines, drivers of economic developmentA Tiger Despite the Chains: The State of Reform in India (main points) Africa Geography Triangular trade Slavery European colonialism and European borders Democratization/renaissance v. Afro pessimism Africas Capitalist Revolution?main ideas Sustainable development carrying capacity Key Environmental Conferences and SummitsStockholm to Copenhagen Global Warming/dynamics Kyoto Protocol Agenda 21 Copenhagen 2009 Montreal Protocol Generations of Human Rights Univ. Dec of HR Universal v. Relative HR Ad Hoc Tribunals to Int. Criminal Court Somalia Drugs and Mexicos Real War main ideas in article New Cocaine Cowboysmain ideas and arguments PRI-perfect dictatorship Hist. of U.S.-Mexico and illicit drugs Supply/Demand for Drugs--trends George Shultz: take the profit out? Global illicit trade in general European Union Timeline of development widening v. deepening political v. economic project European financial crisis Videos Copenhagen Summit http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vide o/module.html? mod=0&pkg=21122009&seg=5 Somalia http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/ world/julydec11/somalirefugees_11-14.html Drugs-Mexico http://video.nytimes.com/video/20 09/05/30/us/1194840597846/warwithout-borders.html? scp=4&sq=Drugs, %20Mexico&st=cse Glenny http://www.ted.com/talks/misha_gl enny_investigates_global_crime_n etworks.html