HIS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Columbian Exchange, Pelindaba, Washington Consensus
22 Apr 2016
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New elected governments in africa and latin america. China was made a part of global economy. Old problems solved: northern ireland, south africa. New world disorder and beginning of the war on terror after 2001. The threat of nuclear was or proliferation recedes. The non-proliferation treaty (npt) is extended indefinitely (1995) France, the u. k and the u. s. endorse the treaty of rarotonga (1985) creating a nuclear-weapons- free-zone in the south pacific (1996) The treaty of pelindaba was signed in 1996 to create a nuclear-weapons-free zone in africa, coming into effect in 2009. The international debt crises (1980-2012) and the avatars of the washington consensus. The removal of barriers to free trade and the closer integration of national economies . Complex, accelerating, integrating process of global connectivity rapidly developing and ever denening network of interconnections and interdependencies that characterize material, social, economic, and cultural life in the modern world .
