A World Without Borders:
1. Ronald Reagan
2. Mikhail S. Gorbachev
3. Solidarity
4. velvet revolution
5. perestroika
6. glasnost
7. mujahedeen
8. Boris Yeltsin
9. globalization
10. World Trade Organization (WTO)
11. "Little Tigers"
12. BRICS
13. European Union
14. OPEC
15. ASEAN
16. Osama bin Laden
17. al-Qaeda
18. Taliban
19. Saddam Hussein
20. Suu Kyi
Study Questions:
A) Explain how the end of the Cold War resulted in an "Uncertain Future."
B) What do General Motors, Siemens AG, and Nestle have in common?
C) How did Japan overcome defeat and economic devastation after World War II to become a modern economic power?
D) What are the disadvantages of globalization?
E) Briefly discuss the following global problems: (1) population pressures; (2) climate change; (3) economic inequities; (4) disease.
F) Discuss the gender issues facing women in the twenty-first century in China, India, and the Middle East.