Within the world systems framework, the elite are the principal promoters of the general celebration of nationalism. Why? Although some or all options may have some article of truth about it, select the ROOT, BEST and the MOST COMPREHENSIVE answer.

Somebody suggests that the world’s economic and environmental problems are resolvable through the institution of national democracy; in other words, somebody suggests that a world with more democratic states indicates that national democracy is an institution that can sponsor our collective improvement as a species. What is the problem with this assertion?

With respect to world-systems analysis, what are the two principal reasons for the erosion of hegemony?

What is the term “The Politics of Failure” referring to?

Of the possible responses below, which is a critical factor around which a minority group within a state forges a sense of nationalism (or separatism)?

Three types of nationalist movements were listed and examined in class (or PowerPoint video). Which of the following is ‘NOT’ one of those three?

With respect to world systems analysis, the lack of political stability, development, and social harmony in developing states (the periphery) has little to do with their elemental social potential (the character of the population itself).

In the phase of the Kondratieff cycle that core wars occur, what is the immediate reason for military competition (war) by the core countries?

As per your text (Chapter 5), presently all countries in the world represent an example of a formal ‘nation-state’.

At the beginning of the 19th century Napoleon was militarily dominating western Europe (Napoleonic Wars). The result was something called the “Continental System”. What was the “Continental System” at its root?