1.2: Examples

EXAMPLE # 1

Query 1: What is the population of my country (Name) and what is its percentage share in the (1) Population of the World; (2) Population of its meta-zone (Afro-Asia), (3) its continental zone (Asia); (4) it is Continental Region (South Asia); and (5) Continental Sub- Region.

Answer: As we see from the Query, the base from which the percent share is computed is changing for each of the above sub-queries related to the World, Meta Zone, Zone, Region and Sub-Region.

Each base or the group of countries included in that base is meaningful depending on the unique inter cots of a given teaching lesson or research issue. We believe that user-friendly access to this multi-level geographic zoning of the World will widen the mental horizons involved in the teaching and research process. With this background on the query, below are the answers to the Query.

Share of Pakistan in _ _ _ _ _ _

1. In The World 2.86%

2. In Meta Zone (Afro Asia) 3.81%

3. In zone (Asia) 4.60%

4. In Region (South Asia) 11.80%

5. In Sub-Region (South Asia) 44.86%

Excluding any G-20 country in the Region, in this case India)

Query 2: Can we now make a Table of the given country (Pakistan) share in the relevant geo-administrative section of the world in terms of its total GNI, trade, Manufacturing and Annual Military Expenditure.

Table # 1 Share of Pakistan in the following among different Multi-National Section of the World

IMPLICATIONS OF THE ABOVE QUERY FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH:

The Global Barometer has widened the horizon of teaching and research by very user-friendly access to multi-sectorial sources of power: demography, economy, military, and civilizational identity at multiple levels of community making spaces at continental, sub-continental, civilizational communities as well as economic and military-security dusters of power.

Given the easy access to the quantified measurement of power, teaching researchers will have enhanced time opportunity and the need to move beyond the measurable, less measurable or the hand to measure. The freedom from the measurable by engaging with the relational, contextual, and contingent aspects of power will enrich our understanding of action for a more meaningful and hopefully ethical engagement with powers, a subject at the heart of IR and G-IRS.