GS101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Creative Destruction, Ummah, Jihadism
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Learn definitions, use language/vocab/jargon of discipline, use examples from course material. Films (dollar a day dress, 1800 india), usic video (qawwali music), radio documentary (burgers vs. bun kebabs), music (k"naan) International law & new social conditions (new social conditions with respect to the course and to the world - war and terror -- we have to modify rules -- implications on international law) Paradoxes & tension of globalization (political sovereignty, culture - cultural resistance) Cumulative but emphasis esp. in parts i and ii on materials from week 5 onwards. Won"t ask the 5 members of security council. What are the parts and functions of the un. Newly independent nations inherited the legacies of colonization: borders (often arbitrary, political systems (marked by elite privilege, and poorly educated masses, ethnic power struggles. Since 1990s, world bank and imf give out loans to struggling economies but impose saps in order for countries to receive these loans.
