The British and French demonstrate that a strong central power is necessary to maintain power on a world scale. ... The wars with France to the South and England to the West surround the Dutch. ... To the south of the Republic the French waged wars, leaving the Dutch with no way to protect their country or their industries. ... This is demonstrated in document 1, the graph shows the steady decrease in Dutch ships on the Baltic because there is no longer a need for the British industries to hire shippers when they have their own ships. ... The war fought by the Dutch was not for territorial gai...

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In the book "Labor Control and the Postwar Growth Model in Latin America," Ian Roxborough argues that the economic model known as import substitution industrialization (ISI) was employed amongst the Latin American countries after World War II as a compromise to meet the ever growing social and political demands within those countries. During this time period, there existed two main opposing forces, 1) the reactionary agrarian and mining elites that had majority of the political control for decades and 2) the mobilizing labor forces that demanded political reform. ... Many elites, having a desi...

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(see graph 1). ... Pre-WWII World War I permitted Japan, which fought on the side of the victorious Allies, to expand its influence in Asia and its territorial holdings in the Pacific. ... This whole agency was created while Japan was still recovering from World War II. " With inflation rising and productivity failing to keep up, the government sought a better mechanism for reviving the Japanese economy" (Japan 101). ... Rising from the ashes of World War II, Japan achieved an economic growth "miracle" that made it the envy of many other countries. ... When Japan lost World War II, six mill...

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Seeing that this resolution talks about global status, then we must look at how it affects the people of the world. ... The affirmative presents the following definitions from the American Heritage Dictionary for the clarification of today's debate: Conflict- a state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas of interests, a clash Globalization- To make global or worldwide in scope or application Sovereignty- complete independence Contention 1: Globalization helps alleviate poverty world-wide. ... C2: Globalism avoids the harms of statism Sub A: Statis...

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Dependency Theory Over the last hundred years many events and situations have occurred throughout the world which have affected not only the areas that they took place, but because of industrialization, media relations, politics, and economic factors, have affected the world as a whole. ... One of the biggest arguments presented is about the process of infusion of capital from first world countries into countries that are less developed. ... An example of this would be how it took 40 years for Americans to collectively own 1 million radios, but more recently, it took only 15 years for Ame...

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According to the World Bank, retail trade and services, which have undergone a dramatic transformation since 1991, accounted for 54% of GDP in 2001, compared with less than 36% in 1990. ... Russia, therefore, is making a giant leap in catching up with the economic structures of the Western industrialized world. Foreign Debt Developments of the Post-Soviet Era The following table and chart demonstrate the amount of foreign aid in loans received by Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union: 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Foreign Loans (in billions of dollars) 9.6 3.4 3.3 ...

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