CONTEMPORARY WORLD – MIDTERMS
Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Solved
nation - ✔✔an imagined community in a sense that it allows one to feel a
connection with a community of people even if he/she will never meet all of
them in a lifetime
state - ✔✔a political unit that has authority over its own boundaries; the
institution that creates warfare and sets economic policies for a country
people, territory, government, sovereignity - ✔✔four attributes of a state
people - ✔✔it exercises authority over its citizens
territory - ✔✔it governs a specific territory
government - ✔✔it has a structure of government that crafts various rules
that people (society) follow
sovereignity - ✔✔it has sovereignity over its own territory; here refers to the
internal and external authority
, ©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
nation-state - ✔✔not all state are nations and not all nations are state
nation-state - ✔✔in example, the nation of Scotland has its own flag and
national culture but still belongs to a state called the United Kingdom
world economy - ✔✔all the economic interactions of all the people on
Earth, not just international trade and investment
modern world-system - ✔✔structured politically as an interstate system
interstate system - ✔✔a system of competing and allying states
global governance - ✔✔a system of political coordination among public
authorities (states and intergovernmental organization), private agents
(corporations) and civil societal actors (NGOs, INGOs), seeking to realize
common purposes or resolve shared problems through making and
implementing of transnational norms, rules, programs and policies
global governance - ✔✔refers to the governing procedures and standards
with political authority which is aimed at controlling certain institution and
organization
global governance - ✔✔is not a mechanism of global government
controlling different nations across the world.