1. Is Soviet-style communism dead?
2. Why have nations such as Poland and Hungary been able to reorient successfully to capitalism, while the former Soviet Union has not?
3. Evaluate the net effect of the Boris Yeltsin era in Russia.
4. Why has the post-Cold War era seen so many ethnic and religious conflicts?
5. Examine the NATO-led intervention in Yugoslavia in 1999. Was the intervention legitimate?
6. Why have far right-wing political parties gained so much support in Western Europe?
7. What caused the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s? How successfully have Asian leaders addressed these problems?
8. How effective has the European Monetary Union (EMU) been to date?
9. Evaluate the overall performance of the Clinton administration.
10. How successfully have the democratic nations of Latin America addressed the underlying problems of debt, dependence, and human rights?
11. Assess the successes and failures of China's economic modernization programs.
12. The Intifada began originally in 1987. Can it be said to have produced any major successes since that time?
13. Assess the overall impact of the Iranian Revolution.
14. How effectively have the post-apartheid governments of South Africa addressed the major problems resulting from the apartheid era?
15. How effectively have the nations of the world addressed global environmental problems?
16. Why did women continue to make up some seventy percent of the population living in poverty at the end of the 20th century?
17. Why has there been such a strong backlash against the traditional European conception of the nation-state?
18. Which is more accurate when describing global culture at the end of the 20th century: "cultural pluralism" or "cultural homogenization"?
19. Why did traditional values and religions return to prominence as the 20th century came to a close?
20. Evaluate the effectiveness of the United Nations in the post-Cold War world.
2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education