CITY UNIVERSITY OF PASAY

F.B. Harrison, Pasadena St., Pasay City

FINAL EXAMINATION
CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Student’s Name: John Peter Cyrus B. Lim

Scores: ________________

Course/ Yr.& Sec.

BSBA 1-6

Date: 1/28/2022

Thank thee so much for everything. It has been a pleasure working with you and I look
forward to assisting you with your future educational goals. Really, it has been a joy being
with you.

The final exam will cover topics/subtopics from all discussions/lectures as well as all
seatwork/activities.

Please briefly explain the following questions. 10 points each

1. Briefly explain Stages of Globalization. Why the word “globalization” given emphasis or importance in today’s contemporary
world? Briefly explain.

Globalization is the process by which ideas, knowledge, information, goods and services spread around the world. In business,
the term is used in an economic context to describe integrated economies marked by free trade, the free flow of capital among
countries and easy access to foreign resources, including labor markets, to maximize returns and benefit for the common good.

Globalization, or globalisation as it is known in some parts of the world, is driven by the convergence of cultural and economic
systems. This convergence promotes -- and in some cases necessitates -- increased interaction, integration and
interdependence among nations. The more countries and regions of the world become intertwined politically, culturally and
economically, the more globalized the world becomes.

2. What do you think about the impact of Globalization to a Country like Philippines in the context of Education and Economy?
The Philippine economy, like that of most other EMEs, has become increasingly
integrated with the global economy. This is evident in the general increase in trade in
goods and labour migration. There is also greater integration in finance, albeit at a
relatively moderate pace.
Trade openness
From the 1990s to the 2000s, trade openness in the Philippines improved from 88.1%
to 101.0% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) (Graph 1). Contributing to
this increase were the country’s efforts towards a more open trade policy starting in
the 1980s. This trade openness also reflected declining transport costs and improved
information and communications technology that supported the development of
complex GVCs, particularly in electronics and electrical components, allowing
companies to manage their production more efficiently (Dudley (2017)).

3. How does the U.N. improve the relationships among nation states?

A. Maintaining Peace and Security

By sending 69 peacekeeping and observer missions to the world’s trouble spots over the past six decades, the United Nations
has been able to restore calm, allowing many countries to recover from conflict. There are now 16 peacekeeping operations
around the world, carried out by some 125,000 brave men and women from 120 countries who go where others can’t or won’t
go.

B. Making Peace
Since the 1990s, many conflicts have been brought to an end either through UN mediation or the action of third parties acting
with UN support. Recent examples include Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burundi, the north-south conflict in the Sudan and Nepal.
Research credits UN peacemaking, peacekeeping and conflict prevention activities as a major factor behind a 40-per cent
decline in conflict around the world since the 1990s. UN preventive diplomacy and other forms of preventive action have
defused many potential conflicts. In addition, 11 UN peace missions in the field address post-conflict situations and carry out
peacebuilding measures.

C. Consolidating peace
The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission supports peace efforts in countries emerging from conflict. It brings together
international donors, international financial institutions, governments and troop-contributing countries, helps marshal resources,
and proposes actions for peacebuilding and recovery. The United Nations Peacebuilding Fund supports 222 projects in 22
countries by delivering fast and flexible funding.

D. Preventing Nuclear Proliferation

For over five decades, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has served as the world’s nuclear inspector. IAEA
experts work to verify that safeguarded nuclear material is used only for peaceful purposes. To date, the Agency has
safeguards agreements with more than 180 States.

E. Clearing Landmines
The United Nations helps to clear landmines in some 30 countries or territories, including Afghanistan, Colombia, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya and the Sudan. Landmines kill or maim thousands of civilians every year. The UN also
teaches people how to stay out of harm's way, helps victims to become self-sufficient, assists countries in destroying stockpiled
landmines and advocates for full international participation in treaties related to landmines.

F. Supporting Disarmament
The United Nations pursues global disarmament and arms limitation as central to peace and security. It works to reduce and
eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, destroy chemical weapons, strengthen the prohibition against biological weapons, and
halt the proliferation of landmines, small arms and light weapons. UN treaties are the legal backbone of disarmament efforts: the
Chemical Weapons Convention has been ratified by 190 States, the Mine-Ban Convention by 162 and the Arms Trade Treaty
by 69. At the local level, UN peacekeepers often work to implement disarmament agreements between warring parties. In El
Salvador, Sierra Leone, Liberia and elsewhere, this has entailed demobilizing combat forces as well as collecting and
destroying their weapons as part of an overall peace agreement.

G. Combating Terrorism
Governments coordinate their counter-terrorism efforts through the United Nations. In 2006, they adopted at the UN the first-
ever global strategy to counter terrorism. UN agencies and programmes have helped countries to put in practice the global
strategy, providing legal assistance and promoting international cooperation against terrorism. The UN has also put in place a
legal framework to combat terrorism. Fourteen global agreements have been negotiated under UN auspices, including treaties
against hostage-taking, aircraft hijacking, terrorist bombings, terrorism financing and nuclear terrorism.

4. If you are a global citizen, does it mean you will lose your local citizenship?
A global citizen is someone who sees themselves as part of an emerging sustainable world community, and whose actions
support the values and practices of that community. Many people today identify with being global citizens as more and more
aspects of their lives become globalized.

Being a global citizen does not mean that you have to give up the other citizenship identities you already have, e.g. your country
citizenship, your allegiance to your local community, religious, or ethnic group. Being a global citizen just means that you have
another layer of identity (with the planet as a whole) added on to who you are. And if you take that identity seriously, there are a
new set of rights and responsibilities that come with it.

5. How do a social media affect cultural globalization?

Social media increased the connections between people and created an environment in which you can share your opinions,
pictures and lots of stuff. Social media improved creativity and social awareness for our society by interacting with other people
and sharing new ideas and opinions.

6. The United Nations has dispatched peacekeeping soldiers to countries where they are not permitted to employ force. This
exemplifies the UN's strength as well as its weakness. In what ways does the United Nations contribute to the resolution of
global issues? Determine three ways in which the charter has hampered the organization's effectiveness.

United Nations Peacekeeping helps countries torn by conflict create conditions for lasting peace.
Peacekeeping has proven to be one of the most effective tools available to the UN to assist host countries navigate the difficult
path from conflict to peace.
Peacekeeping has unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy and sustain troops and police
from around the globe, integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to advance multidimensional mandates.
UN peacekeepers provide security and the political and peacebuilding support to help countries make the difficult, early
transition from conflict to peace.

7. Do you agree that the contemporary world is characterized by a high level of liquidity? If so, why or why not?

Yes, I agree that the modern economic world can be characterized by liquidity. Our contemporary world is based on
manufacturing, marketing, selling and buying of products both useful and not. How quickly our finances grow in order for us to
acquire the things we like is important and seems to now determine our well being as a culture. This where liquidity enters, each
unit in society would have to be considered liquid to be financially safe.

8. What metaphors will you employ to improve your own definition of globalization? Make a list of at least three and explain one
of them.
Globalization means developing international influences. When we influence, it means we combine our economic forces with
others to be more powerful.

Globalization is a fast and strong wifi connection. It connects people and technology together for faster transactions.
Globalization acts the same reaso.

Globalization is creating an empire. It is like networking in multilevel marketing. You reach out to people, you go out of your way
to expand your reach and connection.

Globalization is like a family and the differences create opportunity to resolve and integrate. Globalization is the same, people
and different countries interact to create alliances and better services.

9. Using the flow chart. Give the example of the following sources of change and
 explain your answer on the space provided.

The Reformation.
The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
The Civil Rights movement.
Social Change

The feminist movement.

The LGBTQ+ rights movement.
The green movement.

Political change occurs when the rulers in a country

lose power or the type of governance in the country
changes.
Political Change

Political change is a normal function of internal and external

politics.

say, railroads or smartphones

Cultural Change

say, as a result of travel or globalization

10. Your professor will passed and give you a higher grade in
 the Contemporary World subject because

Because I study hard on this subject and at the same time I learned a lot on the subject of the
contemporary world and I hope that I am more knowledgeable about this tackle

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord,

“plans to proper you and not to harm you,

plans to give you hope and a future”.

-Jeremiah 29:11