Processes of global social change.
Your answers should be essays of 150 words each.
1. What were the goals, components, and consequences of the first Green Revolution? You may use examples to explain your answer.
2. Compare and contrast the three main theories of development, giving examples. Which one do you think has the most explanatory power? How so?
3. Historically, how were capitalism and colonialism linked? What consequences of these links do we still see today? Give specific examples as relevant.
4. How did the model of development of the Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs) differ from the prescribed import-substitution model? Give specific examples.
5. Describe the Bretton Woods system, its origin, goals, components, and evolution from WWII to the 1980s.
6. What were the main components of the development project?
7. Describe the WTO, its origin, its role, and the four main agreements it has implemented. Overall, do you see it as a beneficial or detrimental tool for the US economy? How so?
8. How did the second wave of the second Green Revolution differ from the first wave? What were its consequences, positive and negative?
9. What is the purpose of structural adjustment policies? What are their main components? What are their consequences for local populations?
10. Explain the debt crisis and the debt regime, and how they influenced the path that global development has taken since the 1980s to today.
11. How does the globalization of development in the world factory and the world farm affect the fate of Third-World women?
12. How does the globalization project differ from the development project? You may use specific examples to illustrate your answer.