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1. How many non-governmental organizations existed in 1908?
2. How many non-governmental organizations exist today?
3. Based on current trends, would you predict that in the coming decade it is likely
that the number of non-governmental organizations is likely to increase, decrease,
or remain constant?
4. Which of these two actors in international relations, states or non-governmental
organizations, has grown faster over the last century?
5. True or False: Between 1948 and 1994 the number of telephones in use worldwide
increased more than tenfold.
6. Approximately how many million phones were in use in 1994?
7. Approximately how many Internet hosts were there in 1984? (1,000; 22,000; 50,000;
or 122,000)
8. Approximately how many Internet hosts were there in 2001? (50,000 122,000 3,212,000
126,000,000)
9. Explain how changes in technology can influence the growth and strength of non-governmental
organizations.
10. Approximately how many multi-national corporations existed in 1914?
11. How many multi-national corporations exist today?
12. True or False: The number of multi-national corporations peaked in the
1950s and has declined since then.
13. Which country is home to more multi-national headquarters than any other country?
14. Which country is host to more affiliates of multi-national corporations than any
other and how many does it have?
15. Of the top 100 economic entities in the world, how many are multi-national corporations?
16. The world’s largest multi-national corporations have more economic power than
nearly 75 percent of the world’s nation-states. Discuss how this might affect the
sovereignty and control over internal affairs of smaller, economically weaker, nation-states.
17. How many terrorist attacks occurred in 2001? (151, 201, 348, or 724)
18. True or False: There were more terrorist attacks in a typical year during
the 1990s than during the 1980s.
19. Which region of the world experienced the most international terrorist attacks
in 2001?
20. True or False: In 2001 Asia experienced more international terrorist attacks
than the Mideast.
21. How many international terrorist attacks did North America experience during 2001?
22. How many inter-governmental organizations exist today?
23. True or False: There are more inter-governmental organizations today than
in 1950.
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