Chapter 23

•  Stayer - "accelerating global interaction" :  "an increasingly dense web of political relationships, economic transactions, and cultural influences ... across the world's many peoples, countries, and regions, binding them together more tightly, but also more contentiously".
• four global processes: 
1. economics
2. feminism
3. religion
4. environmentalism.  

•  Bretton Woods Conference

• the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) known as the World Bank
• the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 

•  the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), which became the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995.  
• economics was very successful until 1971 when the US pulled out 
• opening the way to a market led economic system
• Dense Web: Containerized shipping, huge oil tankers, and air express services dramatically lowered transportation costs, while fiber-optic cables and later the Internet provided the communication infrastructure for global economic interaction
• We are now in a very cyber era
• Feminism has come a long way 
• international
• protests 
• got women questioning status quo 
• Decade for Women
• Religion still has its problems but has come long way
• advanced thinkers 
• not as many practicers 
• people start to see problems in environment and how people cause most of them
• History is important because you have to remember your past
• you can't move forward with out knowledge of the past 
• history can shape and open minds 
• can be painful but it is overall enriching