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  • 16:06, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+41)‎ . . N Spiral Model ‎ (Created page with "See Security Dilemma") (current)
  • 16:06, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+604)‎ . . N Security Dilemma ‎ (Created page with "The Security Dilemma, or Spiral Model, states that both the strengths and weaknesses of states within the international system can be provocative to other nations. If one of t...")
  • 16:05, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+652)‎ . . N Secularism ‎ (Created page with "Secularism is a political movement which promotes the separation of church and state. Secularists are not necessarily atheists - many are in fact religious - but they share th...")
  • 16:04, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+798)‎ . . N Second World ‎ (Created page with "During the Cold War, countries were divided into three ‘worlds’ based on their lines of allegiance. The First World refers to countries aligned with the United States whic...")
  • 16:04, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+427)‎ . . N Cynthia P. Schneider ‎ (Created page with "=== Schneider, Cynthia P. (August 1, 1953- ) === An American diplomat, and former Ambassador to the Netherlands. She is currently a professor in the Practice of Diplomacy for ...")
  • 16:03, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+531)‎ . . N Schein, Edgar ‎ (Created page with "=== Schein, Edgar (March 5, 1928 -) === Former MIT professor and inventor of the term “corporate culture”, the culture of business. Corporate culture is a component of or...")
  • 16:03, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,161)‎ . . N Sanctions ‎ (Created page with "Sanctions are restrictions placed upon a country by another country, a group of countries, or an international organization. They vary in nature, and can be economic, politica...")
  • 16:02, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+769)‎ . . N Said, Edward ‎ (Created page with "=== Said, Edward (November 1, 1935- September 25, 2003) === Palestinian-American literary theoretician and one of the founding fathers in the field of Postcolonialism. Born in...")
  • 16:01, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+642)‎ . . N Tutu, Desmond ‎ (Created page with "=== Tutu, Desmond (October 7, 1931 -) === Desmond Tutu is a former South African Anglican Archbishop and renowned opponent of the apartheid in South Africa. He is an influent...")
  • 16:01, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+505)‎ . . N Transnationalism ‎ (Created page with "The term gained popularity in the early 20th century, referring to the emerging patterns and forces of globalization. As cultural, social, and economic boundaries become less ...")
  • 16:00, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+459)‎ . . N Transculturation ‎ (Created page with "​Term coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1940. Transculturation is very similar to the concept of cultural convergence. It describes the phenomenon of differen...")
  • 16:00, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+709)‎ . . N Transaction Cost Economics ‎ (Created page with "Transaction cost economics (TCE) is an economic model used to analyze the costs of a given transaction and how these costs are interrelated. Some TCE economists suggest that t...")
  • 15:59, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+472)‎ . . N Tragedy of the Commons ‎ (Created page with "The phenomenon of exhaustion of a common resource by a group of individuals each acting in their own interest despite the awareness that they are acting against the collective...")
  • 15:59, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+651)‎ . . N Toynbee, Arnold J. ‎ (Created page with "=== Toynbee, Arnold J. (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) === Born in 1889, Toynbee was a British historian best known for his work ''A Study of History'', which documents th...")
  • 15:58, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+539)‎ . . N Tokyo Trials ‎ (Created page with "The Tokyo Trials, also known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, began in 1946. The Tribunals lasted for two and a half years and can be compared to the N...")
  • 15:57, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+698)‎ . . N Tingyang, Zhao ‎ (Created page with "Zhao Tingyang was born in 1961 in the South Chinese province of Guangdong. He received his PhD degree in philosophy from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where he now a...")
  • 15:56, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+719)‎ . . N Third World ‎ (Created page with "The term emerged just after the Second World War to define those countries which neither aligned with the West (capitalist, democratic countries) nor with the East (Communist ...")
  • 15:56, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+638)‎ . . N The Social Construction of Reality ‎ (Created page with "Written by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, about the sociology of knowledge. Central to the concept of The Social Construction of Reality is the idea that people and grou...")
  • 15:55, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+535)‎ . . N The Hague ‎ (Created page with "The Hague is the capital city of South Holland in the Netherlands. It is home to the seats of the Dutch government and Parliament, and the Council of State. Most international...")
  • 15:55, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+613)‎ . . N Thailand’s Cuisine Diplomacy ‎ (Created page with "Thai Cuisine Diplomacy refers to a series of programs instated by the Thai government,‘Global Thai’ and ‘Thailand, Kitchen of the World’, which aimed to increase the n...")
  • 15:54, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+948)‎ . . N Technocracy ‎ (Created page with "A technocracy is a government run not by politicians, but by technical experts in fields of policy-making and governance. Under such a government, scientific approaches to sol...")
  • 15:54, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+776)‎ . . N Tao or Dao ‎ (Created page with "Tao, sometimes called Dao, is a Chinese term meaning ‘path’, ‘way’ or ‘principle’. This concept is the origin of the religion now known as Taoism, and has also bee...")
  • 15:53, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+779)‎ . . N Tacit Understanding versus Explicit Understanding ‎ (Created page with "Explicit understanding refers to knowledge that can easily be transmitted from the source to the recipient. Explicit knowledge can most commonly be found in manuals and docume...")
  • 15:53, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+541)‎ . . N US Foreign Policy ‎ (Created page with "National policies and strategies aimed at advancing US interests and safety of the American people. Since the 9/11 attacks, American foreign policy has been largely preoccupie...")
  • 15:53, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+645)‎ . . N United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) ‎ (Created page with "The United Nations Environment Program was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Nairobi. It coordinates the UN’s environmental initiatives and aims to assist developing c...")
  • 15:52, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+600)‎ . . N United Nations Development Program (UNDP) ‎ (Created page with "Founded in 1965, the United Nations Development Program has its headquarters in New York and branch offices in 177 countries. The UNDP represents the main development network ...")
  • 15:52, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+677)‎ . . N United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) ‎ (Created page with "Established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body and principal organ of the UN General assembly dealing with the issues of trade, development and investment. UNCTAD...")
  • 15:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+544)‎ . . N UNESCO World Heritage Site ‎ (Created page with "Refers to any physical entity from a desert, city, mountain, complex, forest, monument, building or lake that is of cultural or historical significance. The most famous Herita...")
  • 15:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+501)‎ . . N UNESCO Universal Declaration of Cultural Diversity ‎ (Created page with "The Declaration is a legally binding international agreement ensuring that artists, cultural professionals and citizens worldwide can create, produce, disseminate and have acc...")
  • 15:50, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+479)‎ . . N VOKS ‎ (Created page with "Russian abbreviation for the “Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries”. VOKS, founded in 1925, was intended to be a cultural...")
  • 15:50, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+895)‎ . . N Vienna Convention ‎ (Created page with "The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) is an international treaty setting out the framework for the formation and effects of treaties between states. Since coming...")
  • 15:50, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+847)‎ . . N Vertical Integration ‎ (Created page with "A term used in microeconomics and management to describe the process whereby a company expands its business into areas that are at different points on the same production path...")
  • 15:49, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+598)‎ . . N Venetian Cultural Diplomacy ‎ (Created page with "Venetian Cultural Diplomacy may be used in reference to the relations between Venice and the Ottoman Empire during the 16th and 17th centuries. Venice had close ties with the ...")
  • 15:49, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+526)‎ . . N Values ‎ (Created page with "Norms and traditions which influence attitudes and behaviours in society. Values tend to vary across individuals and cultures. There are different types of values such as ethi...")
  • 15:48, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+538)‎ . . N Value Chain Analysis ‎ (Created page with "Value chain analysis is the process of studying the chain of activities that a firm engages in to deliver a valuable product or service to the market. Michael Porter made this...")
  • 15:45, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+662)‎ . . N World Oral Literature Project ‎ (Created page with "An initiative to document and spread oral literatures threatened by extinction. Oral literature was and remains the principal form of literature for many cultures and communit...")
  • 15:44, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+674)‎ . . N World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ‎ (Created page with "Established in 1967, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a specialized United Nations Agency dedicated to the use and protection of intellectual property as...")
  • 15:44, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+575)‎ . . N World Bank ‎ (Created page with "The World Bank is an international financial organization that lends money to developing countries to improve state infrastructure. The World Bank is comprised of two institut...")
  • 15:43, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+511)‎ . . N Williamson, Oliver ‎ (Created page with "=== Williamson, Oliver (September 27, 1932 -) === An American economist currently serving as Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Williamson is most known for...")
  • 15:43, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+839)‎ . . N WikiLeaks ‎ (Created page with "WikiLeaks is an online non-profit media organization that publishes secret or private documents and information obtained from anonymous sources. It was founded by Australian a...")
  • 15:42, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+237)‎ . . N Wiesenthal, Simon ‎ (Created page with "=== Wiesenthal, Simon (1908-2005) === Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter who was instrumental in the pursuit of many Nazi war criminals who had gone into hiding or had not be...")
  • 15:42, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+458)‎ . . N West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Dictionary) ‎ (Created page with "An orchestra based in Seville, Spain, comprised of young musicians from Arab countries, Iran and Israel. The orchestra was founded in 1999 by the Argentine-Israeli conductor D...")
  • 15:41, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+657)‎ . . N West-Centrism ‎ (Created page with "Tendency diffused among political scientists, economists and academics in general, to analyze the world’s reality from a western perspective. This entails an unquestioned ad...")
  • 15:40, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+620)‎ . . N Wendt, Alexander ‎ (Created page with "=== Wendt, Alexander (1958 - ) === A political scientist from Germany, who is best known for his contributions to the theory of social constructivism. Constructivism proposes...")
  • 15:39, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+337)‎ . . N Weltanschauung (World view) ‎ (Created page with "A German philosophical/epistemological term referring to a wide world perception. It also refers to the framework of ideas and beliefs from which an individual, group or cultu...")
  • 15:30, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+848)‎ . . N Weber, Max ‎ (Created page with "=== Weber, Max (April 21, 1864 – June 14, 1920) === A German sociologist, philosopher and political economist known as the principal architect of modern social science alon...")
  • 15:29, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+474)‎ . . N Water Security ‎ (Created page with "The protection of vulnerable water systems, the protection against water- related hazards such as floods and droughts, sustainable development of water resources and the safeg...")
  • 15:28, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-1,507)‎ . . Effluent ‎
  • 15:26, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+801)‎ . . N Water Pollution ‎ (Created page with "When raw sewage, industrial waste, and other pollutants are discharged into natural and man-made water bodies such as rivers, reservoirs, streams, and lakes. Global warming, a...")
  • 15:26, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+627)‎ . . N Water Catchment Area ‎ (Created page with "A water catchment area, also known as a drainage basin, is an area where water from rain, melting snow or ice, merges in a single area where it then meets with another body of...")

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