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Thursday, January 08, 2009

i forgot my book at school what are the question 1-3 on page 294

At 9:28 PM, susie h. said...: 1. In his book 1984, George Orwell envisioned the division of the world into three unified states, held together through technological controls. To what extent has Orwell's vision of a global political arrangement been realized?

2. In the Winter 1992/93 issue of Foreign Policy, Gerald Helman and Steven Ratner identified countries that they called "failed nation-states," including Cambodia, Liberia, Somalia, and Sudan, and others that they predicted would fail. Helman and Ratner argue that the governments of these countries were maintained in power during the Cold War era through massive military and economic aid from the United States or the Soviet nion. With the end of the Cold War, These failed nation-states have sunk into civil wars, fought among groups who share language, religion, and other cultural characteristics. What obligations do other countries have to restore order in failed nation-states?

3. Given the movement toward increased local government autonomy on the on hand and increased authority for international organizations on the other, what is the future of the nation-state? Have political and economic trends since the 1990s strengthened the concept of nation-state or weakened it?