Study 8 Governance, Resistance, and Change with 12 free online flashcards. Review key terms, definitions, and concepts with this interactive flashcard deck.
Who governs global flows, and why does power matter?
Global flows are governed by overlapping governments, international institutions, corporations, and communities; no single authority controls them all. Their unequal power shapes who benefits, bears costs, and makes decisions.
What do national governments regulate, and what pressures can constrain them?
National governments regulate areas such as borders, labor markets, investment, taxation, and environmental protection. Their choices can be constrained by mobile corporations, creditors, trade agreements, and competition with other countries.
What are three roles of the World Trade Organization?
The WTO provides a forum for trade negotiations, monitors members’ trade policies, and offers a process for resolving disputes between governments.
What does the IMF do, and why are some loan conditions contested?
The IMF monitors economic conditions and provides financing to countries facing balance-of-payments crises. Conditions attached to some loans are contested because they can constrain domestic choices or distribute adjustment costs unevenly.
What does the Paris Agreement expect countries to do over time?
Under the Paris Agreement, countries communicate climate plans and are expected to strengthen their action over time.
What is an important legal limit of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights?
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights set out responsibilities for states and businesses, but do not themselves create new international legal obligations.
How can lead firms govern global supply chains, and what can limit these efforts?
Lead firms can set suppliers’ prices, deadlines, product standards, and workplace requirements. Audits and voluntary codes may spread standards, but weak monitoring and low prices can undermine safe work and decent wages.
Why does export growth not guarantee broad-based development?
Export growth does not guarantee better working conditions or broad-based development. Outcomes depend partly on where high-value activities are located and whether local workers and businesses gain skills, bargaining power, and income.
How can control be unequal in a garment supply chain?
In a garment supply chain, production can span several countries while a lead firm controls branding and consumer access. Factories and workers may face pressure to meet low-cost, fast-turnaround orders.
What shapes the fairness of climate policy across borders?
Emissions cross borders, while climate impacts are uneven. Climate policy’s fairness and effectiveness depend partly on access to finance and technology and on how transition costs affect workers, consumers, and lower-income countries.
How do social movements challenge the rules of global flows?
Groups affected by global flows use strikes, demonstrations, boycotts, lawsuits, public reporting, and negotiations to challenge rules. Digital communication can coordinate action across borders, but access and exposure to surveillance or repression are unequal.
What does the UN Declaration call for in specified decisions affecting Indigenous peoples?
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples calls for consultation and cooperation in good faith to obtain free, prior, and informed consent in specified decisions and projects affecting Indigenous peoples.
Explore how geography, chronology, evidence, and networks shaped the diverse societies of the ancient Mediterranean.
A medium-difficulty quiz on the Reformation, Catholic reform, and the political settlements and changes that shaped religious life in Europe.
Trace how Greek communities developed into independent poleis and compare the distinct political and social paths of Sparta and Athens during the Archaic Age.
Compare major theories of international relations and learn how each explains power, cooperation, identity, and global inequality.
Compare political power and citizenship in Athens and Sparta, then trace how the Persian Wars and rival alliances shaped Greek warfare and the Peloponnesian War.
Explore how religion, philosophy, performance, art, architecture, and social life shaped diverse ancient Greek communities.
Trace Macedon’s rise, Alexander’s conquests, the competing successor kingdoms, and the political, social, religious, and artistic connections that shaped the Hellenistic Mediterranean.
A medium-difficulty quiz on the roles, organization, systems, and trade-offs of political parties.
A medium-difficulty quiz on Rome's Mediterranean expansion, provincial government, and the pressures that destabilized the Republic.
Trace how Rome’s Mediterranean conquests expanded its power and strained Republican institutions, from the Punic Wars to Augustus’s new political settlement.
A medium-difficulty quiz on Roman religion, social relationships, labor, trade, and urban life.
A medium-difficulty quiz on how Roman literature, art, architecture, and exchange reflected both shared imperial connections and local traditions.