Chapter 11: Globalization and the Future of Comparative Politics

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Nongovernmental organizations

________ (NGOs)- national and international groups, apart from any state, that focus on specific policy goals.

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International regime

________: fundamental rules and norms that link states together and shape their relationships.

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Intergovernmental organizations

________ (IGOs): groups created by states to serve certain policy ends.

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Optimists

________: rising global multiculturalism and globalized democracy.

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Multinational corporations

________ (MNCs)- firms that produce market goods in more than one country.

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Globalization

________- the process of expanding and intensifying linkages between states, societies, and economies.

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Economic globalization

________: Markets, businesses, and services increasingly cross borders and merge into one large (global) market.

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Pessimists

________: political alienation, backlash, and the "globalization of nothing.

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Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty

________ limits the spread of nuclear weapons.

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Societal globalization

________: Individual and collective identities are increasingly shaped by international influences.

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Offshore outsourcing

a process by which a firm moves some of its work to a secondary business outside the home country that can do the work more efficiently or cheaply

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Bretton Woods System

an economic regime that manages international economic relations; includes IMF, World Bank, and WTO

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Foreign direct investment

the purchase of assets in a country by a foreign firm

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