POLI 227 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Edward Said, Intersectionality, Comparative Advantage
19 Sep 2018
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Berlin conference (1884-85): german, british, french, spanish, portuguese, italian belgian, and us delegates met to carve up africa, colonialism was driven by two factors: greed for resources and beliefs of white racial superiority. Path dependency : whichever path a state depends upon early in their trajectory is formative and is hard to escape typically the result of colonialism (example: resource extraction) (example: nigeria and boko. Gini coefficient: a commonly used measure of inequality (household income or consumption); the higher the figure, the more unequal the distribution, south africa is number one in 2013. Boko haram: radical islamic militant group in northeast nigeria, founded in 2002 and split in 2015, name translates to western education is sacrilegious, has aligned itself with isis (can be an example of: weak state, porous borders, civil war) Isis: founded in 2006 in us-occupied iraq, captured extensive territory in iraq and syria since 2014, religious divisions have contributed to conflict.
