Quiz 1

In 1990, at the outset of the First Gulf War, U.S. President George H. W. Bush announced the birth of a ___________whose leaders no longer respected the idea that cross-border wrongful acts were a matter concerning only those states affected.

"new world order"

What are the dimensions of economic globalization Dr. Helen Milner mentioned in her workshop?

All the above Trade FDI Capital flow Foreign aid, migration, and remittances

In which areas did NAFTA generate influences?

All the above intellectual property environment agriculture transformation infrastructure

The unprecedented development of horizontal networks of interactive communication that connected the local and global was made possible through the worldwide diffusion of _____________.

All the above the internet wireless communication digital media online social network tools

_______ is an additional qualities or characteristics at the core of globalization?

All the above Creation of new social networks and the multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries Expansion and the stretching of socialrelations, activities, and connections Intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities Both objective, material level and subjective plane of human sonsciousness

Which of the following is(are) important aspects of globalization?

All the above Deeper specialization of labor, i. e. , components form any nations Trade to GDP ratios are rising for most countries Expansion of financial capital flows between countries Rise of global brands, including many form emerging countries

What are the negative effects of global warming?

All the above Melting glaciers, early snowmelt, and severe droughts Forests, farms, and cities will face troublesome new pests, heat waves, heavy downpours, and increased flooding Disruption of habitats such as coral reefs and Alpine meadows Allergies, asthma, and infectious disease outbreaks

Which of the following is(are) important aspects of globalization?

All the above Trade to GDP ratios are rising for most countries Expansion of financial capital flows between countries Rising foreign direct investment and cross border M&A Rise of global brands, including many form emerging countries

Automobile is a major source of air pollution in the world.

true

Both developing countries and developed countries contribute to the global environment problems.

true

Branko Milanovic, a prominent Serbian-American economist, confirms that the stagnation of lower middle-class groups in the rich world that are still globally well off but are losing ground nationally.

true

China, India, Russia, and other so-called "rising powers" will force the U. S. to share the responsibility of global leadership.

true

Environment trade-off has been an issue for human beings in history. Correct!

true

Gas emissions result in greenhouse effect, which is responsible for raising average temperatures worldwide.

true

Global warming occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) and other air pollutants and greenhouse gasses collect in the atmosphere and absorb sunlight and solar radiation that have bounced off the earth's surface. Normally, this radiation would escape into space-but these pollutants, which can last for years to centuries in the atmosphere, trap the heat and cause the planet to get hotter. That's what's known as the greenhouse effect.

true

Ideologies help organize the tremendous complexity of human experiences into fairly simple claims that serve as guide and compass for social and political actions.

true

Ideology connects theory and practice by orienting and organizing human action in accordance with generalized claims and codes of conduct.

true

Illicit networks are challenging to states because states are militarily and diplomatically organized to deal with other states. Governments around the world "have found it very hard to adapt to non-state or sovereignty-free actors", Phil Williams from the University of Pittsburgh said.

true

It is still a challenging problem across the world to predict long-term negative effect of global warming based on short-term data.

true

Large and lasting social crises often lead to the rise of extremist political groups.

true

Large-scale food riots in Halti, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, and Cameroon in the last few years highlight increasing limitations on access to food in part as a result of environmental problems such as drought.

true

Liberalism, Great Britain's chief ideology, translated a national, not a global, imaginary into concrete political programmes that benefited the Empire at the expense of its colonies.

true

Like 19th-century Britain, the U. S. is the dominant cheerleader of neoliberalism and thus draws both admiration and contempt from less developed regions in the world.

true

Market globalism is without question the dominant ideology of our time.

true

Perhaps the most influential recent attempt to raise people's consciousness about the dangers of climate change came from an unexpected quarter: the Vatican in Rome.

true

The consequences of worldwide climate change, especially global warming could be catastrophic.

true

The ecological effects of globalization are now recognized as potentially life threatening for life on our planet.

true

The global impact of humans on the environment is as much a function of per capita consumption as it is of overall population size.

true

The intensification of social relations across world-space and world-time has generated and responded to new global problems that are beyond the reach of any single nation-state.

true

The large-scale violence they unleashed proved capable of stopping and even reversing previous globalization trends.

true

The release of vast amounts of synthetic chemicals into the air and water has created conditions for human and animal life that are outside previous limits of biological experience.

true

Transnational criminals have been one of the biggest beneficial of globalizations.

true

The best way of characterizing the globalization in the modern period wave would be to call it "the great convergence"-different and widely spaced people and social connections coming together more rapidly than ever before.

False

The delegates from China, Korea, Mexica, Canada, the U.S., any other 30 countries attended the summit of the Americas held in Quebec City, Canada, in April 2011.

False

The domestic manufacturing sector of Japan is extremely competitive in 1990s, which adopted a market-oriented capitalistic system.

False

The domestic manufacturing sector of Japan is extremely competitive in 1990s, which could be viewed as a very socialistic, egalitarian sector.

False

The earliest appearance of the term "globalization" in the English language can be traced back to the 1950s.

False

The invention of writing in Mesopotamia, U.S., and central China between 3500 and 2000 BCE roughly coincided with the invention of the wheel around 3000BCE in Southwest Asia.

False

The invention of writing in Mexico, Canada, and Korea between 3500 and 2000 BCE roughly coincided with the invention of the wheel around 3000BCE in Southwest Asia.

False

The label "early modern" refers to the period between the African Renaissance and the Enlightenment.

False

The new digital technologies have not played a crucial role in the compression of world-time and world-space.

False

The origins of the modern nation-state system can be traced back to 17th-century political development in Asia.

False

The relative decline of the nation-state definitely means that governments have become important bystanders to the working of global forces.

False

The rise of African metropolitan centers and their affiliated merchant classes represented another important factor responsible for strengthening globalization tendencies during the early modern period.

False

Until the 2000s, Thailand has opened up its capital markets. For the first time, local businesses could borrow money from foreign banks which offered lower interest rates.

False

Until the late 19th century, Australia and the Pacific islands were slowly incorporated into the European-dominant network of political, economic, and cultural exchange.

False

Written in 1990 by the German political radicals Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, a passage taken from their famous Communist Manifesto captures the qualitative shift in social relations that pushed globalization to a new level in the modern period.

False

Policy research, advocacy, activism, and grassroots capacity building, critique of corporate-led globalization, neoliberalism and militarization

Focus on the global south

Promote the right to food, food sovereignty, and food security around the world

Food First International Action Network

What are the topics covered by Dr. Helen Milner's workshop?

Globalization's growth in its many forms, 1970-2015 & Conditions supporting its growth: why did it grow? & Some of its consequences, or concurrent outcomes

____ contain the languages of global intellectual discourse, thus critically impacting intellectual communities involved in the production, reproduction, and circulation of knowledge around the world.

Int'l scientific populations

Written in 1847 by the German political radicals ________ and ___________, a passage taken from their famous Communist Manifesto captures the qualitative shift in social relations that pushed globalization to a new level in the modern period.

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Given that _________ constitute the major forms of symbolic expression, they assume special significance in the sphere of culture

Language & Music & image

American sociologist George Ritzer coined the term "____________" to describe the wide-ranging sociocultural processes by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world.

McDonaldization

Rapid globalization occurred from 1890s to 1914 because of______

Technological change & Peace & Democracy rising

The initial establishment of the Silk Road occurred in_________

The premodern period

The 1990s saw the creation of a new kind of global economy, a single market in which everyone has a stake, but no one has control.

True

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, later known as the World Bank, was initially designed to provide loans for Europe's postwar reconstruction.

True

The Silk Road inked the Chinese and the Roman Empires, with Parthian traders serving as skilled intermediaries.

True

The U.S. encouraged developing countries to continue opening their economics to the global market during the term of Bill Clinton as the president.

True

The arguments of both globalizes and sceptics remain entangled in a particularly vexing version of the chicken-and-the egg problem.

True

The crucial cultural innovators of earlier decades-small, independent record labels, radio stations, movie theatres, newspapers, and book publishers-have become virtually extinct as they found themselves incapable of competing with the media giants.

True

The domestic manufacturing sector of Japan is extremely uncompetitive in 1990s, which adopted a market-oriented capitalistic system.

True

The economic crisis in 1997 turned out to have a virulence that became known as contagion, much greater than anticipated. And what that really reflected was indeed globalization, was the way these economies had become locked together and investors looked at emerging markets.

True

The globalization of language can be viewed as a process by which some languages are increasingly used in international communication while others lose their prominence and even disappear for lack of speakers.

True

The goal of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed in 1992 was to eliminate barriers to trade and investment between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

True

The internet, in particular, has assumed a pivotal function in facilitating globalization through the creation of the World Wide Web that connects billions of individuals, civil society associations, and government.

True

The respective arguments of globalizers and sceptics are not necessarily incompatible.

True

To a large extent, the global cultural flows of our time are generated and directed by global media empires that rely on powerful communication technologies to spread their message.

True

Trade became an issue in 1992 presidential campaign in the U.S.

True

Trades mean that products and goods moving across the bounders between countries.

True

We should not assume that globality is already upon us.

True

Two major concerns of ecological perspective of globalization relate to ___________in the global North.

Uncontrolled population growth and lavish consumption patterns

What are the five components of globalization in future?

all the above Innovation Culture Economics Society Quality

________, and other so-called "Rising Powers" will force the USE to share the responsibility of global leadership

chine & India & Russia

Which of the dimensions of globalization is(are) interrelated with the ecological dimension?

economic & political & culture

Which of the following indicators were used for KOF index of globalization?

economic & social & political

As the "big data" recently collected by Branko Milanovic reveal, there are some discouraging trends related to income inequality among the citizens of the world.

false

Drawing on data collected by NOAA and the UNIPCC, a 2016 National Defense Council report predicts that global average temperatures in 2100 will be down to 8 degrees Fahrenheit colder than today-should global emissions continue on their current path.

false

Ecological problems aggravated by globalization also have significant economic ramifications. Although these effects will be more significant for rich countries than less developed countries for, they will nonetheless affect all people and all nations.

false

Karl Polanyi, an Austrian political economist, located the origins of the social crises that gripped the world during the late half of the 19th century in ill-conceived efforts to liberalize and globalize markets.

false

Most developed regions are already warmer on average than developing countries and consequently suffer from a high degree of variability in rainfall.

false

Most of transnational criminal networks still adopt hierarchical structure.

false

Most political pundits overestimate the power of the populist anti-globalization message-even after the stunning 2016 election victory of Trump in the home country of neoliberalism.

false

One-third of the world's wetlands have already been destroyed, and the biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems is under serious threat.

false

Population number is not a consideration for predicting the future of ecological dimension of globalization.

false

Since agriculture is the most climate sensitive of all economic sectors, developed nations will be more adversely affected by climate change than developing countries.

false

The U. S. comprised 30-40% percent of the world's population, yet it consumes 6 percent of our planet's natural resources.

false

The competitive rules of the free market improved the complicated social relations of mutual obligation and improved deep-seated norms and values such as civic engagement, reciprocity, and redistribution.

false

The developed national is made up of around 30% of population, but use around 70% of the resources across the world.

false

The protracted global crises as the Global Financial Crisis has stopped such a powerful set of social processes as globalization.

false

The significant increases in global temperatures don't explain the meltdowns of large chunks of the world's major ice reserves.

false

Ideologies of national sovereighty conflicts with transnational control over finances and industry. It is an example of disjunctures between__________

finanscapes vs. ideoscapes

Ideologies of national sovereighty conflicts with transnational control over finances and industry. It is an example of disjunctures between__________ Correct!

finanscapes vs. ideoscapes

_____ facilitate the spread of languages beyond national or cultural boundaries

foreign language learning & tourism

Which of the following does not belong to one of the "scapes" for globalization?

functionscape

The central feature of all these potentially disastrous environmental problems is that they are "_______", thus making them serious problems for all sentient beings inhabiting our magnificent blue planet.

global

Overseas diaspora of ethnic groups conflicts with the ideology of nationalist movements. It is an example of disjunctures between_______

ideoscapes vs. ethnoscapes

___ ___applies since the internet has become a global medium for instant communication and quick access to information, and language use on the internet is a key factor in the analysis of the dominance and variety of languages in international communication

internet languages

constructs an alternative vision of globalization based on egalitarian ideals of global solidarity and distributive justice

justice globalism

seeks to endow "globalization" with free-market norms and neoliberal meanings

market globalism

_____ means that people carry their languages with them when they migrate and travel. Migration patterns affect the spread of languages

movements of people

For_____ , the declining number of languages in different parts of the world points to the strengthening of homogenizing cultural forces

number of language

seek to mobilize a religious community imagined in global terms in defense of religious values and beliefs that are thought to be under severe attack by the forces of secularism and consumerism.

religious globalism

What is(are) the contribution(s) of new technologies to the globalization?

Break down of trade barriers & Break down of capital market barriers & Spread market-based economics

______ gave the following definition of globalization: Globalization may be thought of as a process (or set of processes) which embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions-assessed in terms of their extensity, intensity, velocity, and impact- generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and the exercise of power Correct!

David Held

Huge unilateral trade liberalization occurs in developed countries from late 1980s.

False

In 1748, the Peace of Westphalia concluded a lengthy period of religious wars among the main European powers following the Protestant Reformation.

False

In the 1992 presidential campaign, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton lost the crucial support from America's labor unions because it seemed that he can't promise workers' protection against global competition.

False

In this earliest phase of globalization, contact among thousands of hunter and gatherer bands spread all over the world was not geographically limited and mostly coincidental.

False

Marking the close of the prehistoric period, theses monumental inventions amounted to one of those political and economic boosts that moved globalization to a new level

False

Mathew, drawing on Lefevbre, proposed postmodern theory of globalization, which indicates that everything is a construct, including the nation-state. There are no more borders or nation-states, free movement of people and capital.

False

Most countries closed to international economy until late 1990s.

False

On the eve of the First World War, merchandise trade measured as a percentage of gross national output totaled almost 52 per cent for the industrialized countries, a level unmatched until the 1980s.

False

Optimistic globalizers disagree with their pessimistic colleagues that cultural globalization generates more sameness

False

Pension funds in the U.S. are not impacted by global trade market.

False

The Economic Crisis did not influence Indonesia at all.

False

The Economic Crisis did not influence Russia at all.

False

The Economic Crisis did not influence the U.S. at all.

False

Trade and investment issues in Africa; reform of global financial system

Africa trade network

Contemporary economic globalization can be traced back to the gradual emergence of a new international economic order assembled at an economic conference held towards the end of the second world war in the sleepy New England town of Bretton Woods. What the primary agreement reached at this conference?

All the above Under the leadership of the United States and Great Britain, the major economic powers of the global North reversed their protectionist policies of the interwar period (1918-39) In addition to arriving at a firm commitment to expand international trade, the participants of the conference also agreed to establish binding rules on international economic activities They resolved to create a more stable monetary exchange system in which the value of each country's currency was pegged to a fixed gold value of the U.S. dollar Individual nations werefree to control the permeability of their borders

______proposed postmodern theory of globalization

Arjun Appadurai

Written in 1847 by the German political radicals Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, a passage taken from their famous ________________captures the qualitative shift in social relations that pushed globalization to a new level in the modern period.

Communist manifesto

Human, environmental, and worker rights at the local, national and global levels; transparency and accountability into global finance and trade

Corpwatch

Which of the following is(are) the definition of acculturation?

Cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture & A merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact & The process by which a human being acquires the culture of a particular society from infancy

Globalization is a new phenomenon after 1980s.

False

"B" means Burma in "BRICS".

False

"C" means Cuba in "BRICS".

False

"S" means Singapore in "BRICS".

False

A liberal-capitalist "First World" dominated by the U.S., and an authoritarian-socialist "Second World" controlled by the Soviet Union sought to establish their political and ideological dominance in the "Third World" during 1940s.

False

According to recent Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reports, one-third of the world's farmlands have been rated as "somewhat degraded" and two-thirds have been marked as "strongly degraded".

False

Advanced forms of technology capable of overcoming existing geographical and social obstacle were largely present in the prehistoric period.

False

After centuries of warfare among several independent states, the Qin Emperor's armies, in 221 CE during the premodern period, finally unified large portions of northeastern China

False

At the beginning of the premodern period, the existing global trade network consisted of several interlocking trade circuits that connected the most populous regions of Eurasia and northeastern Africa.

False

Capital controls ended in late 1980s and onward

False

During the 1970s, the purpose of World Bank was expanded to fund various industrial projects in developing countries around the world.

False

During the two centuries of the early modern period, Asia and its social practices emerged as the primary catalyst for globalization after a long period of European predominance.

False

Enduring long-distance interactions materialized during the prehistoric period.

False

Ethnoscape means that technology moves at much greater speeds across national boundaries.

False

Helen Milner is the B.C. Forbes Professor of Politics and international Affairs at ______university when she delivered the workshop - the politics of globalization: the world economy and domestic politics.

Princeton University

In which perspectives does the trade contribute?

Recovery American economy & Economy development across the world & One of the foundations for a more peaceful world

In the 1990s, in many ways,_____ was the spiritual center of the new global village-the source not only of its technology, but of its entrepreneurial ethos.

Silicon Valley in California

"C" means China in "BRICS".

True

"I" means India in "BRICS".

True

"R" means Russia in "BRICS".

True

After all, economic forms of interdependence are set in motion by political decisions, but these decisions are nonetheless made in particularly economic contexts.

True

Bill Clinton had been a leading proponent of expanded trade.

True

Capital flows as % world GDP during 1970-2015 fluctuated.

True

Cultural globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe.

True

Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meaning, and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations.

True

Culture could be diffused in the globalization process by the internet, popular culture media, and international travel.

True

Culture is a very broad concept; it is frequently used to describe the whole of human experience.

True

Deterritorialization means that as ethnic and national populations move around the globe they are no longer tied to their home country in terms of territory, but only by emotional ties and attachments to the home country.

True

During the 1990s, due to technology development which creates borderless world, entrepreneurs could think like multinationals, and see the entire world as a single market.

True

Given the complexity of global cultural flows, one would actually expect to see uneven and contradictory effects.

True

Global warming represents a grim example of the decisive shift in both the intensity and extent of contemporary environmental problems.

True

Globalization denotes transformation.

True

Globalization did not cause global poverty, but it did make us more aware of it.

True

Globalization has brought unprecedented prosperity, but it has also brought crises and risks we are only beginning to understand.

True

Globalization is a process in which national economies have become increasingly integrated and inter-dependent.

True

Globalization is an ancient process that, over many centuries, has crossed distinct qualitative thresholds.

True

Globalization itself is not just one movement, but the movement of several of different areas, that may conflict with each other.

True

If we are talking about the "cultural", we are concerned with the symbolic construction, articulation, and dissemination of meaning.

True

In the last week of December of 1997, the 11th largest country -- economy, rather -- in the world, which was Korea, had roughly speaking $4 billion of reserves left and was using reserves at the rate of $1 billion a day.

True

Japanese economic is export-oriented, which is highly competitive, consisting of Toyotas and Sonys.

True

Karl Polanyi, an Austrian political economist, indicated that these European movements against unfettered capitalism eventually gave birth to political parties that forced the passage of protective social legislation on the national level.

True

Many environmentalists have argued that biodiversity should be treated as a planetary asset and held in trust for the benefit of future generations. Correct!

True

Mediascape means global production and dissemination of media and media images.

True

Over time, food surpluses achieved by the early farmers and herders in the prehistoric period led to population increases, the establishment of permanent villages, and the construction of fortified towns.

True

Pension funds typically have large amounts of money to invest, which are especially important to the stock market.

True

Pronouncing the rise of a "borderless world", globalizers seek to convince the public that globalization inevitably involves the decline of bounded territory as a meaningful concept for understanding political and social change.

True

In Dec 2015 the UN Framework Contention on Climate Change Summit held in Paris, France, proved to be a turning point for action to limit climate change with an expressed objective to move to a zero carbon world within the foreseeable future. The Paris global climate has a number of key elements.

all the above The parties committed themselves to arresting the rise of global temperatures they pledged to limit the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity to the same levels that trees, soil, and oceans can absorb naturally, beginning at some point between 2050 and 2100. countries agreed to review each other's contribution to cutting emissions every five years so as to scale up the challenge rich countries promised to help poorer nations by providing "climate finance" to adapt to climate change and switch to renewable energy

___________is(are)challenge(s) that can not be contained within national or even regional borders.

all the above Transboundary pollution global warming climate change species extinction

Reform of global financial institutions and infrastructure

association for the Taxation of financial....

Rights of women, indigenous people and the marginalized

southern common market

Digital media has emerged since________

the contemporary period

Cold War started during __________

the modern period

The first world war occurred during_________

the modern period

The second world war occurred during_________

the modern period