Chapter 12

A  developing multiparty democracies

B  consisting of a strong legislature and a weak executive

C  consisting of a weak legislature and a weak executive

D  adopting similar foreign policies

A  poverty and unmet basic human needs

B  struggles between global communism and global capitalism

C  anti-imperialist sentiment

D  international power struggles between rich and poor countries

A  industrialization

B  consumption

C  accumulation

D  development

A  States can move from the semiperiphery to the periphery, but not from the periphery to the semiperiphery.

B  Periphery regions export primarily manufactured products, whereas semiperiphery regions export primarily raw materials.

C  Periphery regions are growing more rapidly than semiperiphery regions.

D  Semiperiphery regions are growing more rapidly than periphery regions.

A  states in the periphery are not active in international trade

B  the semiperiphery acts as a buffer between the core and periphery

C  there are distinct lines between core and periphery that states cannot cross

D  states in the core export light manufactures from the periphery

A  the resource curse

B  mercantilism

C  resource dependency

D  hollow growth

A  Globalization is making it easier for people to live and work in different countries.

B  The cost of living has been increasingly on the rise in nations where most migrants are found.

C  As migrants assimilate they simply keep more of the money they make.

D  Global poverty is decreasing greatly.

A  Access to those benefits is gender-neutral.

B  Women have greater access to those benefits than men do.

C  Younger women have the same level of access as most men.

D  Men have greater access to those benefits than women do.

A  Being poor, with unmet basic needs, makes a society more war-prone.

B  Being at war produces economic wealth for a country’s military industries, raising the ability of all citizens to meet their basic needs.

C  Being at war allows a country to acquire resources to meet basic needs through conquest.

D  Being poor, with unmet basic needs, makes a society less war-prone.

A  Starvation kills more people than malnutrition does.

B  People die from starvation and malnutrition because there is not enough food produced in the world to feed them.

C  About 1 billion people live in abject poverty.

D  Starvation triggered by war or drought affects more people than chronic poverty does.