CONTEMPORARY WORLD MIDTERM EXAMINATION REVIEWER

LESSON 5 A WORLD OF REGIONS

• Mansfield & Milner - define region vary
• Regionalization vs regionalism
• NATO vs WARSAW PACT
• OPEC
• NAM - India, Indonesia, Ghana, Egypt, Yugoslavia +120members
• NGO - rainforest foundation, asean parliamentarians, citizen diplomacy forum, regional interfaith youth networks,
migrant forum+CARAM
• New regionalism
• Legitimizers
• Brexit
• West Phillipine Sea
• APEC - 37% of the world population

LESSON 6 THE GLOBALIZATION OF RELIGION

• Berger - contemporary world is furiously religious
• Malaysian Govt - religion is center of political sys
• Ruler - head of islam
• Khomenei - islam is superior coz its spiritual but no different from other secular ideologies coz all are flawed
• Ulama - muslim association
• Pesantren - islamic school
• King Henry VIII - broke away from catholicism
• Modern Secular Society - USA wrote by Tocqeuvilla
• Casanova - religion is always in the center in every political conflicts and movements
• Profane
• Old world religions - Christianity and Islam
• Religion is proactive force not regressive force
• Rise of movements / Daesh - ISIS (islamic state in iraq and syria)
• World council of churches - centers of the power
• Pope Francis - condemned throw away culture
• Bayer & Beaman - globalization have very little to do with religion
• Secularization Theory - thesis that erode religious practice debunked by huntington & weber
• Calvinism - saved are already chosen

LESSON 7 MEDIA AND GLOBALIZATION

• Lule - media means channel of communication
• McLuhan
• Cultural Imperialism
• Text - content of any medium
• Ang - emotional energy affirmed by Katz & Liebes
• Japanese Brands
• Good effect of social media - Arab Spring and Women's March
• Bad effect of social media - Splinternet and Cyberbalkanization
• Putin hiring of TROLLS and spread fake news
• Turk Pres. Erdogan - troll caused sexual violence against women
• Online Propaganda - biggest threat of globalization
• Television produced global monoculture

LESSON 8 THE GLOBAL CITY

• Global city - Saskia Sassen 1990's
• Metropolis - important city
• Florida - denser global cities
• NY, SG, Tokyo less carbon emissions
• Mnl, Mumbai, Bangkok polluted
• Vertical farms
• Terrorist attacks - 9/11 on Twin Tower and by ISIL (islamic state of iraq and the levant) in Paris
• Gentrification - driving out the poor in favor of the rich
• Banlieue - place where minorities are sent out

GLOBAL CITIES:
• LA - hollywood, mecca
• Tokyo - Hq of SONY & most corporate Hq's
• NY - highest stocks exchange (NYSE), Hq of UN
• San Francisco - powerful internet company (fb, t, g), silicon valley's technology - top IT and engr
• Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou- center of trade and finance
• Shanghai - 5th largest SE
• Sydney - greatest proportion of capital
• Melbourne - rival of sydney, most livable
• China - manufacturing center of the world
• Shanghai - supply chain, supplier of plastic containers, busiest port
• London - filipino nurses
• Singapore - asias competitive city, strong, efficient, incorruptible, livable, houses many regional offices of many major
global corp., art galleries, top television stations and news organizations
• Washington DC - seat of american power, white house
• Canberra - Australia's political capital, top politicians, bureaucrats
• Brussels - Hq of EU
• Jakarta - Hq of ASEAN
• Frankfurt - European Central Banka
• The New York Times - global newspaper
• Boston - Harvard Univ
• Australia - largest education export (but most is iron ore/coal then tourism)
• Copenhagen, Denmark - culinary capital, New Nordic Cuisine
• Manila - not very global due to DEARTH of foreign residents