Strayer Chapter 24 Flashcards
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164028696 | World Trade Organization | International body representing 149 nations that negotiates the rules for global commerce and is dedicated to the promotion of free trade | 0 | |
164028697 | Transnational Corporations | Huge global businesses that produce goods or deliver services simultaneously in many countries | 1 | |
164028698 | Socially Engaged Buddhism | A growing movement in Asia that addresses the need of the poor through social reform, eduational programs, and health services | 2 | |
164028699 | Second-Wave Feminism | Women's rights movement that revived in the 1960s with a different agenda than earlier women's suffrage movement; [the people who participate] demand equal rights for women in employment and education, right to control their own bodies, and the end of patriarchal domination | 3 | |
164028700 | Religious Right | The fundamentalist phenomenon as it appeared in US politics in the 1970s | 4 | |
164028701 | Reglobalization | The quickening of global economic transactions after WWII, which resulted in total wold output returning to the levels established before the Great Depression and moving beyond them | 5 | |
164028702 | Prague Spring | Sweeping series of reforms instituted by communist leader Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia in 1968; the movement was subsequently crushed by a Soviet invasion | 6 | |
164028703 | Augusto Pinochet | Military dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990 who was known for his widespread use of torture and for liquidating thousands of opponents of his regime | 7 | |
164028704 | North/South Gap | Growing disparity between the Global North and the Global South that appears to be exacerbated by current world trade practices | 8 | |
164028705 | Neo-Liberalism | An approach to the world economy, developed in the 1970s, that favored reduced tariffs, free movement of capital, a mobile and temporary workforce, the privatization of industry, and the curtailing of government efforts to regulate the economy | 9 | |
164028706 | Liberation Theology | ... | 10 | |
164028707 | Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming | ... | 11 | |
164028708 | Jihad | ... | 12 | |
164028709 | Islamic Renewal | ... | 13 | |
164028710 | Hindutva | ... | 14 | |
164028711 | Che Guevara | ... | 15 | |
164028712 | Global Warming | ... | 16 | |
164028713 | Globalization | ... | 17 | |
164028714 | Fundamentalism | ... | 18 | |
164028715 | Environmentalism | ... | 19 | |
164028716 | Bretton Woods System | ... | 20 | |
164028717 | Osama bin Laden | ... | 21 | |
164028718 | Antiglobalization | ... | 22 | |
164028719 | al-Qaeda | ... | 23 |