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George H.W. Bush
Inc.
Clinton
Free Trade
Globalization and Empire
100
The collapse of the USSR in 1989 was symbolized with the fall of this.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
150 years ago, the business corporation was relatively insignificant. Today, it is all-pervasive. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today's dominant ___.
What is institution?
100
In the election of 1992, in a key televised debate, Clinton engaged questioners and moved about freely, Bush was seen looking at this, appearing uncomfortable in such an informal setting.
What is his watch?
100
Among Clinton's first term victories was the passage of the this, for which he garnered more Republican than Democratic support.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
100
It's mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. Often accused with the IMF of insensitivity to cultural differences and ineffective development strategies.
What is the World Bank?
200
As the economy faltered, the deficit grew, and a recession set in, the supply-side economic policies of the 1980s were questioned and Bush was forced to break his promise of this.
What is "no new taxes"?
200
Between 1890 and 1910, corporations brought the majority of cases brought before the Supreme Court regarding the interpretation of this.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
Shortly after entering office, Clinton ordered air strikes against this nation in retaliation for an assassination plot against Bush.
What is Iraq?
200
President Bush sought to seize new opportunities through a policy of free trade, pushing to lower trade restrictions and tariff barriers in the these talks.
What is the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
200
To improve balance of payments, this practice, which raises the cost of foreign exchange, high interest rates which raise the cost of credit, and wage guidelines which effectively reduce the price of local labor are prescribed by the IMF.
What is devaluation?
300
As commander-in-chief, Bush orchestrated military operations in these three places. (Name one)
What are Panama, Somalia, and the Persian Gulf?
300
Despite endorsements of "free trade" these farmers in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union all receive huge subsidies to keep their prices artificially low.
What is milk?
300
Clinton dispatched additional troops here in October 1993 despite public and congressional uproar over the killing of American soldiers who were part of a United Nations relief effort.
What is Somalia?
300
The only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade among nations with a goal to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business--prompted the Battle in Seattle in 1999.
What is the World Trade Organization?
300
Although the US controls less territory than this nation, Niall Ferguson argues that America's economic and military power is more dominant.
What is Britain?
400
The coalition forces drove out the Iraqi invaders out of this nation in little more than a month after Desert Storm was launched on January 17, 1991, and a nation grateful for sensing the end of the "Vietnam syndrome" gave the president an 89 percent approval rating in the polls.
What is Kuwait?
400
Corporations were given the rights of these with no moral conscience, which are designed by law, to be concerned only for their stockholders.
What are persons?
400
Argued that preferential treatment of Jamaican bananas in Europe under this policy the was a violation of free trade.
What is the Lome Agreement?
400
Conceived at a United Nations conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in July 1944. The 45 governments represented sought to build a framework for economic cooperation that would avoid a repetition of the disastrous economic policies that had contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
400
American dominance differs from other historic empires because it consists not only of military power but of persuasive influence through values, prosperity, and openness through a power called this.
What is soft?
500
In a recent version of the Good Neighbor Policy, the world's largest free trade area was created when the United States, Canada, and Mexico launched this--Bush initiated it and Clinton got the credit.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
500
"In doing this, it tends to be more profitable to the extent that it can make other people pay the bills for its impact on society. There's a terrible word that economists use for this."
What is externalities?
500
In 1999, President Clinton led the NATO Alliance in a 79-day air war that expelled Serb forces from here and restored self-government to the province, ending a decade of repression and reversing Slobodan Milosevic’s brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing.
What is Kosovo?
500
Encouraged by the U.S. government, the U.S. Agency for International Development (U.S. AID) has used over $34,960,000 in U.S. tax dollars to target, persuade and provide incentives to multinational companies to relocate offshore, tax-free areas like these in Jamaica.
What are Free Trade Zones?
500
According to Joseph Nye, it is misleading and inaccurate to describe contemporary networks of globalism simply in terms of this metaphor?
What is a hub and spokes?