Contempo

Cards (22)

  • People, things, information, and places “harden” over time and therefore have limited mobility.
     
    Solidity
  • Increasing ease of movement of people, things, information, and places in the global age.
    liquidity
  • Hyper-mobility of people, things, information, and places in the global age.
    gaseousness
  • Movement of people, things, information, and places due, in part, to the increasing porosity of global barriers.
    Flows
  • Methods employed by one nation/state to gain power over an area(s) and then to exercise control over it.
    Imperialism
  • Cultures imposing themselves, more or less consciously, on other cultures.
    cultural imperialism
  • Western (especially US) media and their technologies dominating less developed nations, cultures
    media imperialism
  • Creation by the colonial power of an administration in the area that has been colonized to run its internal affairs
    colonialism
  • Developments that take place in a former colony after the colonizing power departs.
    post colonialism
  • A “project” primarily concerned with the economic development of specific nation-states not regarded as sufficiently developed
    development
  • Economic, political, and cultural influence of the Western countries  on the rest of the world.
    westernization
  • Economic and Cultural influences of the East on the West
    easternization
  • Imports by non-Americans of that which is closely associated with America/ Americans.
    americanization
  • when was the UN organized?
    1945
  • before it was called United Nation what was it called?
    The league of Nations
  • When was ASEAN founded?
    Aug 8, 1967
  • who is the first president of the UN?
    Alberto Romulo
  • when was the Organization of American States (OAS) created?
    April 30, 1948
  • who was the head of the communist government in Cuba?
    Fidel Castro
  • When was Cuba been suspended in OAS?
    1962
  • What and when is the Organization of African Unity (OAU)Succeeded?
    African Union in 2002
  • when was the Organization of African Unity Started?
    1963