Final Flashcards
(21 cards)
Authoritarian States
10-12 people making policy; little freedom; use coercion and force to establish legitimacy
Totalitarian States
Every aspect controlled by state; communism; no freedom
Communism
Proletariat and bourgeoisie; false consciousness (failure to understand ones own exploitation); dialectical materialism (2 ideas clash causing revolutionary change)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestroika and glasnost
Great Leap Forward
make steel and improve agriculture
Great Cultural Revolution
destroy old customs to gain power
Economic Globalization
international trade and foreign direct investment
Policy Globalization
European Union; policy diffusion and political integration
Social Globalization
international tourism, information, technology, ideas, culutre
Dependency Theory
core (manufactured goods) and periphery (raw materials) divisions; exploitation at global level
Import Sbustitution
create high tariffs to protect domestic industries
Institutional political violence
violence to make changes in the state
Ideational political violence
Jihad; spreading and defending ideas and beliefs
Individual political violence
personal experiences
“Thinking about hybrid regimes” Diamond
Classifications of regimes from free to not free; Liberal democracy, electoral democracy, politically closed authoritarianism; categories to predict behavior
“Islam and Authoritarianism” Fish
female subordination=treatment of women doesn’t allow for democracy in middle east
“Rethinking Recent Democratization” Bunce
People wanted democracy and freedom; regimes allowed reform so they wouldn’t collapse
“Clash of Globalizations” Hoffman
Violence will be persistent with globalization; countries will only care about nationality; globalization won’t make peace; limit globalization
“Why has africa grown so slowly” Collier and Gunning
Domestic Policy most important for change in Africa because of corruption
“When will the Chinese people be free” Rowan
predicted 2025 based on GED; increase of education with economic growth; democratic peace between US and China
“Occidentalism” Margalit and Buruma
Distorted view of the west in non-western world; may promote terrorism in the west