Economic and war

economic system that is a hybrid of capitalism and socialism

      government assumes a key role in providing soial and economic benefits

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and National Debt
• Consumer Debt

• Gross Domestic Product and National Debt
• Consumer Debt
• US must import 60% of its crude oil needs
• US has 4.6% of the worlds population, consumes 40% of the world's energy resources

• U.S. has the largest economy in the world
• The US national debt of $12.1 trillion is 85% 0f GDP, and is climbing at a rate of $3.8 billion per day

• two-tier labor market
• Decline in Union Membership

• bottom tier workers lack formal education or job skills
• Upper workers have strong educational and proffesional credentials

they establish operations in foreign countries for many reasons

• to obtain materials
• to avoid taxes
• emply a low-wage labor force
• manufacture goods for consumers in a host country

• exploit people and natural resources to generate profits
• take advantage of desperatly poor labor forces, lenient environmental regulations and lack of worker safety standards
• can aggravate problems related to obesity, poverty, mass unemployment, and inequality

• raise standards of living, increase employment opportunity, transcend political hostility, transfer technology, and promote cutural understanding
• employ millions and distribute goods, services technology, and capital across the globe

grounded in the sanctity of time-honored norms that govern how someone comes to hold a powerful position

ex kings and queens

grounded in exceptional and exemplary personal qualities

Ex hitler

derives from a system of impersonal and formal rules that specify the qualification for occupying an administrative or judicial position

ex presidents

• politics is an arena of compromise, alliances, and negotiation among many competing special interst groups
• pluralism states that power is dispersed among these groups

• the organizational structure that directs and coordinates people's involvement in the political activities of a country or some other territory
• the mechanism through which people gain power and exercise authority over  others

• democracy
• totalitarian
• authoritarian
• monoarchy
• theocracy

system of gov't characterized by:

• a single ruling party led by a dictator
• an unchallenged official ideology that defines a vision of the perfect society and th achieve that vision
• a system of social control that suppresses dissent
• centralized control over the media and the economy

a gov't in which no separation of power exist

• a single person, group, or social class holds all power

gov't exists to seve those in power

authoritian

monarchy

theocracy

"rule of the deity"

political authority rests in the hands of a religious leader or a theologically trained elite group

• imperialistic power
• militaristic power
• hegemony

Manifest function

latent function

manifest dysfunction

Latent dysfunction

• US military personnel are stationed in parts of the world that supply needed resources to the US
• US consumers and corporations benefits at the expense of african peoples

• move production facilities to lower-wage zones outside a country to lower production cost
• secure the lowest possible price for raw materials
• create new products consumers need to buy
• improve existing products to make previous versions obsolete
• Find ways to help people purchase more products and services by offering them wages are credit, allowing people to spend beyonc their means

include the wealthy strongest economies and gov't.

weakeness they depend on foreign sources for raw materials

are built on a few commodities or just one

they have dependent relationships with core economies that trace its roots to colonialism

characterized by moderate wealth but extreme inequality, and moderatly diverse economies

exploit peripheral economies and in turn are exploited by core economies

• having the ability to have great power
• may include targeting civilians

• Threat
• cultural and religious differences
• political objectives
• moral objectives
• wealth, pwer,and global standing
• social problems
• absence of alternatives

destroys structures of society like homes, and communication

it takes alot of money to fund a war, money that can be used on education, food and other important things.

war crimes

• Crimes against peace like starting or preparing for an unjust war against other nations
• convectional war crimes including murder rape torcher deportation or other ill treatment
• crimes againsty humanity that include racial or religious

• terence to deter the threat of retaliation
• having a high-tech defense
• arms control- international agreement of making weapons
• diplomacy

• state sponsor terror
• representive state terror

gov't use of violence with in its own borders to suppress political opposition

use military force

apply economic sanctions

defend against terrorist

killing terrorist