During the Vietnam conflict, war had a very visible and direct affect on society, and most obviously, on popular culture - especially music. ... Hell, if not for two major world wars, we wouldn't have jazz. ... When the Vietnam war hit, a lot of barely politically aware musicians suddenly had their eyes opened. ... Arguably the most important and inventive teeny-bopper pop act in the world, it took a social revolution to also make them the most important movers in popular culture since Thomas Paine. ... Don't laugh - it could happen in the event of a war. ...

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By the beginning 20th century with the effects of industrialization and common usage of communication devices and transportation becoming faster and more comfortable economy started to play the most important role in a state's political policies. ... Equally Asia has been struck by fundamental changes: from the imperial China to the communist China, the Vietnam war, the Korean war, the independence of India, the Iran Iraq war, the Gulf war, etc. Economy plays the most important role or is the main criteria in a country's prestige and power; economically strong states started to have ...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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This was brought to a halt by the First World War and the bout of anti-free trade protectionism that led to the Great Depression in 1930. ... The end of the Second World War brought another great expansion of capitalism with the development of multinational companies interested in producing and selling in the domestic markets of nations around the world. ... The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union ended the cold war between the forces of capitalism and socialism with capitalism triumphant. ... The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established in the wake of the Wor...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate