1. "Mafia capitalism" refers to what problem in the former Soviet-bloc nations?
2. What caused the 1998 Russian financial crisis?
3. Why did socialist parties gain so much popularity in the former Eastern bloc nations?
4. Why was Kosovo the focal point of conflict within Yugoslavia in the late 1990s?
5. What is the "Third Way" in European politics?
6. What were the requirements for entering the EU's monetary union?
7. What are the major obstacles to NATO expansion?
8. What are Russia's major foreign policy concerns?
9. How did the presence of women in U.S. politics change during the Clinton administrations?
10. What motivated the Zapatista rebels in Mexico?
11. Why did Peru remain an authoritarian dictatorship, against the regional trend towards representative government?
12. Identify the major separatist movements in Asia; what motivates them?
13. Why have some Asian nations been more successful than others in controlling high population growth rates?
14. How have economic sanctions affected the people of Iraq?
15. Why have the Oslo I agreements largely failed to solve Israeli-Palestinian tensions?
16. Why have Islamist movements gained so much popular support?
17. What are the primary causes of ethnic warfare in Central Africa?
18. What is the source of Nelson Mandela's tremendous popularity at home and abroad?
19. Why have environmental problems been the source of such great disagreement at global summit meetings?
20. Why has the mapping of the human genome been seen as both promising and threatening?
21. Why has the basic problem of unequal distribution of global wealth remained unresolved?
22. In what ways has the status of women changed during the 20th century?
23. How have national aspirations destabilized the post-Cold War world?
24. Why has international cooperation grown more necessary since the end of the Cold War?
25. Why did support for traditional religions increase so dramatically at the end of the 20th century?
2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education