State and Globalisation
Which country saw extreme poverty rates drop from 60% in 1980 to 33% by 2010?
India
China was (84 down to 12%)
Name the 5 permanent countries on the UNSC
Russia, China, USA, UK, France
The Congress of Vienna took place to reestablish the Westphalian systems after attempts by who to subjugate Europe?
Napoleon
The year the US and UK invaded Iraq
2003
Name the top 3 restaurant chains globally in order (by numbers of stores)
McDonalds, Subway and KFC
In 1999 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the UK dismissing two people was a breach to their right to a private life. Why were they dismissed?
For being gay
Name of the organisation that predates the UN but was powerless to prevent WWII?
League of Nations
Name of the leader of Turkey who supressed opponents, leading to Turkey withdrawing from the ECHR
Recep Erdogan
In which year did the Rwandan genocide take place?
1994
What is this keyword?
The idea that cultural differences are being flattened out and there is more uniformity.
Cultural Homogenisation
Which country has utilised globalisation and the Washington Consensus to become the 10th largest economy (worth 1.6 trillion in 2022)?
South Korea
The UN have had military observers observing which disputed reason since 1949?
Kashmir
(Between India and Pakistan)
Name the current secretary general of the UN?
Antonio Gutteres
In what year did Russia annex Crimea from the Ukraine?
2014
What did the Rome Statute create?
The International Criminal Court
Where is the International Criminal Court based? (city and country)
The Hague, Netherlands
How many judges sit on the UN's International Court of Justice?
15
The US President during WWI who drew up his Fourteen point plan about state sovereignty
Woodrow Wilson
In what year did the US government create the Department for Homeland Security?
(4 years either)
2002
1998 - 2006
Which UN Secretary General played a leading role in designing and publishing the Millennium Development Goals?
Kofi Annan
How many workers died in the Rana Plaza incident?
(200 either side)
1,129
929 - 1329
UNESCO, World Bank, World Health Organisation and the IMF are all parts of what organ of the UN?
Economic and Social Council
Who was the president of Sudan, backed by China, but indicted for war crimes by the ICC?
Omar Al-Bashir
In what year did the Beijing government take the seat of China in the UNSC (previously held by Taiwan)
4 years either
1971
1967 - 1975
In 2000 the foreign aid budget for countries was $6 billion. Thanks to the MDGs, what was it by 2015?
$12 billion