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In the lecture videos/PowerPoints I talked about the World Bank and the IMF (International Monetary Fund). What function did these institutions serve?

Wallerstein, in his article, mentions an organization called “The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)” founded by the wife of Republican Vice President’s Dick Cheney and Democratic Senator from New York Joseph Lieberman. Who does this organization identify as the domestic “weak link in America’s response to the [9-11] attack” ? 

Why have external powers ‘historically’ sought to dominate the core area of the Middle East?

Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Osama Bin Laden of Saudi Arabia, Shah Reza Pahlevi of Iran…

John Carlos Rowe, in his article on the US, posits that:                           (A)

With respect to world-systems analysis, there have been four hegemonies in the world system: Netherlands (Dutch); Great Britain; Germany; United States.

What is thought to be the principal stimulus promoting a “B” phase of the Kondratieff cycle?

As per your text (Chapter 5), why does nationalism and nationalists so heavily emphasize rural landscape imagery and references, even when the state’s population is overwhelmingly urban?

With respect to world-systems analysis, the hegemonies that have occurred within the world system seem to have taken place within “B” phases of the Kondratieff cycle.

All of the following are components of an ‘Illiberal democracy’ BUT ONE. Name the one that is ‘not’ a feature of an ‘illiberal democracy’.