Ch 7,8,9 Vocab Flashcards
(46 cards)
Apartheid
South Africa system of strict racial segregation from 1948 to 1990s
Anarchic
Lacking government or order
BRIC
Brazil,Russia, India and China, important emerging economies
Clientelism
Distributing funds in exchange for political support
Colonialism
The gaining and exploitation of overseas territories, chiefly by Europeans
Decolonization
The granting of independence to colonies
Direct rule
Colonial administration by European officials that ignore local power structures; practice by France, Belgium, the Netherlands
Divide and rule
Roman and British ruling method of setting subjects against each other
Emerging economies/ Global South/ third world
Large parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America
Failed state
Collapse of sovereignty, essentially no national government
GDP
Gross domestic product; some total of goods and service is provided in a country in one year; measure of prosperity
Indirect rule
Colonial administration through local powers and leaders; practice by Britain
Pan – Africanism
Movement to unite all of Africa
Partition
Tendency for military coups and rule
Praetorian
Dividing a country along ethnic or religious lines
Raj
The British colonial administration of India
Secularism
Keeping religion separate from governance
Subcontinent
Asia south of Himalayas, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; sometimes called South Africa
Tribalism
Identifying with tribe rather than country
Weak state
One unable to govern effectively; corrupt and crime ridden
Caliphate
Muslim empire
Fatah
Yasser Arafat’s armed party that dominated the PLO
Hamas
Arabic for “zeal”. Armed Palestinian Islamist party, founded in 1987
Hezbollah
Iranian sponsored Lebanese Shaia militia.
