1)Introduction- A thousand year old phenomenon Globalization‚ initiated by the Silk Road which linked Europe and China has widely broadened in today’s scenario. It is defined as a progression of unification of diverse countries across the globe enhanced by foreign trade‚ international investment‚ flow of technology and labour. Globalization has diversely affected the political‚ social‚ cultural condition of various countries in negative and positive manner. (1) (10) 2)Argument Against Globalization
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descriptive essay on the Globla North/South divide. Explores the social‚ cuptural and economic differences that exist between the regions defined as the global north and the global south. The theory of the Global North and Global South is a new geopolitical perspective. It divides the world into two blocs – the industrialized countries of the global North and the poor countries of the South on the global level of analysis. While “Global South” is sometimes used as a synonym for the more familiar
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that West intervene in Libya‚ which had a similar mode for what happens in Syria makes us keep many question marks. And so‚ I’ll have to analyze this problem at a broader level of geographical constituency of Syrian conflict‚ beyond geographical boundaries of this country‚ because the deduction of the bloody war and massacres that exterminate Syrian people cannot be understood‚ except by addressing conflict on broad international level too. And since the issue is addressed at the level of America
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Economic Studies University of Petroleum and Energy Studies Dehradun‚ Uttarakhand‚ India November‚ 2012 OBJECTIVES * To study the geopolitical factors related with oil and natural gas which derive from the mismatch of location between reserve/production and consumption. * To assess the feasibility of cross country pipelines due to geopolitical complexity. It is not only oil or natural gas but political message that flow through a pipeline. * To study the impact of pipelines on global
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Korea had been divided into a Communist‚ northern and southern half divided at the 38th parallel. It seemed like the Korean War might be an inflection point in the Cold War‚ but the USA announced that they had no interest in Korea because it had no geopolitical significance. However‚ the Soviet Union supported North Korea to invade South Korea. The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea in 1950. The North Korean and Soviet
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history of modes of production‚ the logic of which was deeply analyzed by Karl Marx. But in terms of geopolitical history can be thought of as a consistent change of power units "world order"‚ or geo-political eras. Each era is characterized by a kind of balance geopolitical forces in the international arena‚ the unique configuration of borders and zones of influence‚ forming the global geopolitical field‚ which must be the main actors in history. Therefore the relevance of the topic now seems indisputable
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Comparing Western and Eastern African Kingdoms The two sides of the African continent‚ involved in two separate economic spheres‚ were bound to produce differences between their complex societies. The influence of the trade networks varied‚ however they both feature a relationship between political and social organizations. Religion played an important part in the kingdoms as well. While the west formed royal administrations under the Islamic religion‚ and the eastern city states also favored Islam
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Could you ever imagine a day where the temperature might be between minus sixty and minus eighty degrees? Here‚ in the North Slope of Alaska‚ we have many cold days during the winter. Sometimes classes get canceled due to extreme weather in which case we’ll make up the days at the end of the school year. Around the 18th or 19th of November‚ the sun won’t even crest above the horizon for 65 days. We all need extra vitamin D and we use bright lights that simulate natural light for between 30-60 minutes
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stability-change‚ structure-agency‚ subjectiveobjective‚ and materialist-idealist‚ as well as micro-macro‚ provide a shorthand method for denoting differences in central assumptions‚ subjects‚ and models. As with many other oppositional concepts‚ however‚ the boundary between microsociology and macrosociology is not clearly distinguished‚ and at the margins there is much room for overlap. Typically‚ micro-level studies examine individual thought‚ action‚ and interaction‚ often coinciding with social-psychological
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establish and maintain the identity and boundary lines of societies and groups. Conflict with out- group contributes to the establishment and reaffirmation of the identity of the group and maintains its boundaries against the surrounding social world” (Coser 1956). Simmel went further by saying‚ “patterned enmities and reciprocal antagonisms conserve social divisions and systems of stratification. Such patterned antagonism prevents the gradual disappearance of boundaries between the subgroups of social
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