Chapter 9 Review Questions

1. What is the difference between the “developed world” and the “developing world”?

2. Which organizations originated at the Bretton Woods conference?

3. What is “political economy”?

4. What are some of the various names used to refer to nations that are part of a structurally integrated system of global capitalism?

5. What is “colonialism”?

6. What are some of the organizations that Canada is a member of?

7. What was the “transatlantic bargain”?

8. What is meant by keiretsu and chaebol?

9. What is the controversy over Turkey joining the EU?

10. What are the six main institutions of the EU?

11. What is “North Atlantic Triangle”?

12. What is meant by “middle power”?

13. What is “electoral college” in the American political system?

14. What factors contributed to South Korea’s rapid economic growth?

15. What is the concept of “functionalism”?