Parcial I Flashcards
(56 cards)
Describe Global Poverty and Inequality
o Affects 80% of countries
80/20 Rule – 200 países, solo 40 no son afectados
750 millones sin agua potable
805 millones sin comida suficiente
Más de 1.3 billones en extrema pobreza
* Menos de 1.25 US al día
¼ de los humanos, 1.6 billones, viven sin electricidad
Nearly ½ the la población (más de 3 billones) viven de menos de 2.50 USD al día
Hemisferio sur es pobre y hemisferio norte es rico.
Describe Power of transnational corporations y da ejemplos de algunas
o Pocas empresas dominan el mundo
o Google, Apple, Mcdonalds, Amazon, Facebook
Diferencia entre calentamiento global y cambio climático:
- No es lo mismo que el calentamiento global porque este es consecuencia del cambio climático
5 ejemplos de impacto social y económico del cambio climático
The cost of adapting coastal areas to rising sea levels
Loss of capacity to work due to heat
More wars to gain access to limited resources
Fresh water will be in short supply in some areas
Relocation of whole towns
Shrinking productivity of harvests
Prices of basic foodstuffs and consumer goods will rise
Extreme meteorological phenomena
Diseases will spread due to higher temperatures
Año de inicio de Arab Spring
2010
Tres elementos de World Tension
nuclear threats, arms build-up, terrorism
Definición de globalization
A worldwide movement toward economic, financial, communications and trade integration.
Las 3 críticas a la globalización
Threats to national sovereignty
Negative costs of economic growth
Increasing income inequality
Qué es Offshoring
the transferring of production to foreign sites
5 costos del crecimiento
Inflation
Current account deficit: países han tenido que importar más de lo que exportan
Pollution
Congestion
Disease of affluence
Inequality
Use of non-renewable resources
Qué es el proctectionism
Any action taken by a country whereby the price of domestic goods become more favourable relative to imported goods. trade barriers to protect domestic producers
Quiénes comprenden al bloque BRICS
Brazil, Russia, India, China*, South Africa
Quiénes comprenden MINT
- Mexico, 2. Indonesia, 4. Nigeria, 3. Turkey
Definición de geopolítica
The study of the correlation between the geographic space and the countries politics (Tanguy de Wilde)
Swedish geographer creator of Geopolitics
Rudolf Kjellen
In “The State as a Living Organism” (1916) stated Geopolitics is a doctrine of the State considered as a living geographical organism or a spatial phenomenon”
Rudolf Kjellen
NATURE OF GEOPOLITICS
Belongs to both, political science and political geography, part of them but a more dynamic science
The study of the environments, places and spaces of Earth’s surface and their interactions. It seeks to answer the questions of why things are as they are, and where they are. It is the mother science of Geopolitics.
Geography
Social science that analyzes and describes the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Natural resources, especially those that most influence the factors of power (oil, gas, gols, water, etc.) are of particular interest and analysis of economics to project economic growth.
- Economics
It studies the rational, abstract, and methodical consideration of reality, or of fundamental dimensions of human existence and experience.
Philosophy
Related to geopolitics, since geopolitics studies the geographical factors that influence military strategy
Military
The study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities.
International relations
Science that studies human societies, their interactions and the processes that preserve and change them by examining the dynamics of constituent parts of societies ( institutions, communities, populations and gender, racial or age groups)
Sociology
Discipline that studies the chronological record of events (as affecting a nation or people), based on a critical examination of source materials and usually presenting an explanation of their causes
History
