Left hand
nonstate actors make war on civilians
what is terrorism
Nationalization (state takeover) of sugar industry in Cuba (1960), oil in Iran (1953), and banana plantations in Guatemala (1954) upset foreign investors and led to attempts to reverse these moves by this country in the 'Cold War'
What is the United States
Lagos, 12 million, oil 'rich' city
What is largest city in Nigeria
Common to Mexico, Iran, and Russia in the 20th C.
What is "revolution" (that altered their regimes and built new political institutions)
Voted to leave the EU
What is GB or 'Brexit'
Party of Lenin who took over the Revolution in 1917
Who were Bolsheviks
Highest GINI index number among our 6 countries
What is Mexico
Name of political prisoner #1 until last month in Russia
Who is/was Alexei Navalny
Occurs for about 30-45 minutes every Wednesday in the House of Commons
What is PMQ, Prime Minster's Questions, (where opposition party(ies) and back benchers for the ruling party can ask questions)
Probably the most consequential event in 1979
What was the Iranian Revolution and rise of political Islam
Top dog in CCP
Who is Xi Jinping
Clerical rule in Farsi
Velayat e-Faqih
"vell-ah-yacht, eh fah kehr"
Two countries who have just joined this military IGO
Sweden and Finland
Treaty at the end of the Thirty Years' War in Europe generally regarded as the official beginning of the idea of sovereign nation-state system in Europe.
What is Treaty of Westphalia
Islamic fundamentalist group that altered global arrangements after September, 2001
Who was al Qaeda
WHO SAID...The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
WHO is Karl Marx
Ending the command economy all of a sudden in order to rapidly enter the global economy is/was called
What is 'shock therapy'
Who is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)
Name for the fact that some parts of a country (like the district of St. Petersburg in Russia) gets to have more autonomy than other parts/district/provinces in a country.
Asymmetric federalism
Conspiracy theorist in the White House 2017-18
Steve Bannon
Leader of a political party in UK right now (who will likely become Prime Minister by the end of 2024)
Who is Sir Keir Starmer
Haiti, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, and about 20 other nations share this designation
What are failed states
Authoritarian policy in place from 1979 to 2015 with unexpected consequences (meant to bring zhi, but maybe contributing to luan)
What is China's One Child Policy
Common to Russia, Nigeria, Mexico and USA
A popularly elected President (though this is not meant to sidestep the undemocratic features at work in these elections)
Right wing populist anti-immigration party in UK
UKIP