UNIT TEST

• Regionalism – This describes the decentralization of competencies or the establishment of regional institutions by the state​
• Third World Countries – These are largely characterized as poor and underdeveloped, with low levels of education, poor infrastructure, improper sanitation, and limited access to health care​
• Colonial Exchange – Term for colonies in the Asia Pacific and South Asia influenced by the West and vice versa​
• Asia Pacific and South Asia – This region includes economically developed states such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, as well as impoverished countries like Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal​
• Open Regionalism – Aims to develop cooperation with outside actors, resolving tension between regional trade agreements and global trade under the WTO
• World Trade Organization (WTO) – The only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations​
• Global South – Refers to interconnected histories of colonialism, neo-imperialism, and economic and social inequalities​
• Middle Class – They occupy different societal positions and constitute the expanding regional consumer market​
• New Urban Middle Class – Created through growth in retail trade, manufacturing, banking, real estate development, and specialist services​
• Pacific Pivot – A foreign policy shift by the United States to commit more resources and attention to the Asia-Pacific region
• False – The north divides → The global south is used as a banner to rally countries victimized by economic cures like those of the IMF
• False – The Second World described countries aligned with NATO and capitalism → The First World described NATO and capitalism, and the Second World aligned with communism and the Soviet Union​
• True – The ills of the global south are being globalized​
• False – The strongest vehicle is regionalism → The strongest vehicle for redistribution and transfer is the state​
• True – Spaces of underdevelopment in developed countries can mirror the global south, and affluence mirrors the global north
• False – The south has attained high globalization → The global in global south signifies that the south continues to be globalized, not that it has attained high globalization​
• True – Globalization is the intensification of economic, political, social, and cultural relations across borders​
• False – By Grater Asia and the Americas → Globalization in the Asia Pacific and South Asia is pushed by powers like the U.S. and Europe​
• True – The global south is relevant for those within and signifies that it continues to be globalized
• False – Centralization of political powers → Regionalism refers to decentralization of political powers or competencies