GEO 372 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: De Jure, Vladimir Lenin, Cascading Failure
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Geo 372 quiz 1 review: two major trends that have shaped the world since 1945. Territorial fragmentation and social/cultural/economic integration: the skeptical and hyperglobalist approaches to globalisation. Hyperglobalists=see it as a new phenomenon: limits of globalisation. International trade and investment, information technology: some of the principle driving factors of globalisation. Transportation, trade, communications, migration: functional/spatial differences between internationalization and globalisation processes. Globalization=global economic integration of many former national economies into one global economy, free trade/easy migration, no separate nations: what are the commanding heights and who coined the term. Current era of globalization may come to an end. Attempts to trace rise of free markets in past century: territoriality and the socio-cultural needs of groups what they are. Dependencies=territories that exist external to but depend on de jure nations (bermuda, uk) Blocs=loosely connected groups of territories sharing some commonality of culture, commodity, politics, religion (eu, opec, nafta, league of arab nations)
