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• 10:21, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-1,038)‎ . . Main Page ‎
• 10:12, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+521)‎ . . N Power Relations ‎ (Created page with "The concept of power relations was first proposed by Karl Marx, who sought to overthrow the existing social structures and create a new world order. The term refers to a matri...")
• 10:11, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+574)‎ . . N Power Politics ‎ (Created page with "A term used to define the state of world politics today: countries competing with each other for world resources, and placing their national interests over the interests of th...")
• 10:10, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+587)‎ . . N Power Distance ‎ (Created page with "One of the original four dimensions of Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory. Put simply, it refers to an index that measures the attitude of a culture to a hierarchy;...")
• 10:10, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+673)‎ . . N Power - Virtuous Power ‎ (Created page with "Notion of power which implies a full commitment to the safeguard of human rights and justice and whose objectives should be pursued and achieved by mutual cooperation, even in...")
• 10:09, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+858)‎ . . N Power - Soft Power ‎ (Created page with "The use of diplomacy, culture and history in order to attract and cooperate with another political or social group.Cultural diplomacy academics stress the advantages and utili...")
• 10:08, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+474)‎ . . N Power - Smart Power ‎ (Created page with "Smart power is the combination of hard power and soft power policies. Smart power strategy involves the employment of a powerful military force while also implementing cultura...")
• 10:07, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+340)‎ . . N Power - Hegemonic ‎ (Created page with "Hegemony is a form of leadership or dominance in which the ruling state enforces its own cultural, economic and political systems upon its client states. This can either be ac...")
• 10:06, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+634)‎ . . N Power - Hard Power ‎ (Created page with "The use of military and economic force to influence and coerce other political or social groups. Hard Power does not involve actual physical conflict but rather stresses the t...")
• 10:04, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+536)‎ . . N Power - Collaborative Power ‎ (Created page with "The use of a mass of people to achieve an objective that an individual would be incapable of achieving alone. Collaborative power normally refers to a group of individuals wit...")
• 16:59, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+605)‎ . . N Postmodernism ‎ (Created page with "Postmodernism is period following modernism and is based on proponents, or postmodernists, adopting a largely skeptical view of commonly held ideas in many areas including art...")
• 16:57, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+681)‎ . . N Post-Industrialism ‎ (Created page with "Post-industrialism refers to a society in which more wealth is generated from the service sector than from manufacturing. The term originated from American sociologist Daniel ...")
• 16:53, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+399)‎ . . N Post-Colonialism ‎ (Created page with "Refers to a period in the mid-20th century after which countries which had formerly been under the control of empires gained their independence. Post-Colonialism relates to th...")
• 16:52, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+497)‎ . . N Post-Colonial Studies ‎ (Created page with "Academic discipline examining the cultural legacies of colonization and imperialism. The discipline provides criticisms of mainstream post-colonial knowledge and perceptions b...")
• 16:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+506)‎ . . N Positive Peace ‎ (Created page with "A concept, originally associated with Johan Galtung, that conceptualizes peace as more than just the absence of direct violence. Positive peace includes the absence of structu...")
• 16:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+382)‎ . . N Popular Culture ‎ (Created page with "This term was coined in the 19th century denoting the amalgamation of ideas, perspectives, values, and customs that form the mainstream culture of any particular society. West...")
• 16:49, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+320)‎ . . N Pollution Abatement ‎ (Created page with "Pollution abatement refers to technology applied or measures taken to reduce pollution and/or its impacts on the environment.The most commonly used technologies are scrubbers,...")
• 16:48, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+228)‎ . . N Polemology ‎ (Created page with "The academic study of human conflict and war and of the often-violent mechanisms through which victory can be attained in a conflict situation (see Peace and Conflict Studie...") (current)
• 16:47, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+726)‎ . . N Perestroika ‎ (Created page with "Perestroika is the Russian term for ‘restructuring’. This term was introduced, along with Glasnost, as a policy in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s by Mikhail Gorbachev,...")
• 16:46, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+565)‎ . . N Peer-to-Peer Diplomacy ‎ (Created page with "Peer-to-Peer Diplomacy, also abbreviated P2P, describes the recent notion that civilians, by virtue of the internet and more specifically social media, are producers as well a...")
• 16:42, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+322)‎ . . N Peacemaking ‎ (Created page with "Action “to bring hostile parties to agreement, essentially through such peaceful means as those foreseen in Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter” and is fundamentally ...")
• 16:41, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+534)‎ . . N Peacekeeping ‎ (Created page with "The non-violent intervention on behalf of those who have little or no political voice themselves, to ensure peace and security. The intervention with a neutral observer status...")
• 16:40, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+394)‎ . . N Peaceful Coexistence ‎ (Created page with "Peaceful coexistence is a theory developed by the Soviet Union at various points during the Cold War and solidified by Soviet leader Krushchev as a concept in Soviet foreign p...")
• 16:39, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+496)‎ . . N Peacebuilding ‎ (Created page with "An attempt to implement long term measures that try to reduce the risk of an area lapsing or relapsing into conflict. The range of measures attempt to strengthen national capa...")
• 16:38, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+575)‎ . . N Peace and Conflict Studies ‎ (Created page with "Branch of social sciences concerned with the investigation of violent and nonviolent conduct and with understanding how and why conflicts develop. Peace and conflict studies c...")
• 16:37, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+707)‎ . . N Ottoman Empire ‎ (Created page with "Founded in the late 1200s the Ottoman Empire was an imperial state. The empire grew to become one of the largest and most powerful empires in the world. Territory ranged from ...")
• 16:33, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+776)‎ . . N Quotas ‎ (Created page with "Mechanisms used by governments to impose numerical limit thresholds. Quotas can be applied to a vast number of fields such as fishing, political representation, and trade. In ...")
• 16:33, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+768)‎ . . N Rwanda (Dictionary) ‎ (Created page with "Rwanda is a small African nation which was colonized by both Germany and Belgium after power was handed to these countries during the colonization of Africa. Rwanda comprises ...")
• 16:33, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+568)‎ . . N Russiche Haus (Russia House) ‎ (Created page with "A cultural center based in Berlin that represents the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States,compatriots living abroad,and international humanitarian coope...")
• 16:32, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+530)‎ . . N Rome Statute ‎ (Created page with "The statute that created the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 1988. The statute establishes the Court’s jurisdiction, structure and functions. The statute also lays out...")
• 16:32, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+483)‎ . . N Rome Convention ‎ (Created page with "The United Nations Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, took place from the 15th to the 17th of June 1998 in Rome, Italy. 120 of the 160 states ...")
• 16:31, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+666)‎ . . N Religious Fundamentalism ‎ (Created page with "Religious fundamentalism has been prevalent in society since the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is a response to increasing globalization and modernization. Rel...")
• 16:31, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+435)‎ . . N Regionalism ‎ (Created page with "Regionalism is a complex of attitudes, loyalties and ideas which individuals and collective groups of people have over what they perceive as ‘their’ region. Regionalism ex...")
• 16:30, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+565)‎ . . N Red Cross ‎ (Created page with "The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an organization providing humanitarian assistance to those affected by conflict and armed violence around the world. The...")
• 16:29, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+854)‎ . . N Red Crescent ‎ (Created page with "The term ‘red crescent’ usually refers to the humanitarian effort known as the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, an international movement with almost one...")
• 16:28, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+709)‎ . . N Realism ‎ (Created page with "Realism is a theory of International Relations that stresses the competitive and conflict-ridden nature of the anarchic state system. Realists believe that power and self- int...")
• 16:26, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+682)‎ . . N Reagan, Ronald ‎ (Created page with "=== Reagan, Ronald (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) === Former President of the United States of America (1981 -1989), who served for two terms. Reagan is considered one of...")
• 16:26, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+580)‎ . . N Rapprochement ‎ (Created page with "Derived from the French word ‘rapprocher’ meaning ‘to bring together’. It denotes the establishment or reestablishment of harmonious and friendly relations between two...")
• 16:21, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+478)‎ . . N Sustainable Tourism ‎ (Created page with "An attempt to reform the tourism industry, so that it reduces the negative impact on the environment and local culture, while simultaneously improving employment opportunities...")
• 16:21, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+620)‎ . . N Sustainability Indicators ‎ (Created page with "Sustainability in- dicators are measures that have been derived in an effort to calculate sustainability, usually in an environmental or developmental sense, and form an area ...")
• 16:20, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+757)‎ . . N Sustainability ‎ (Created page with "For humans, sustainability is the potential for long-term maintenance of well- being which has multiple dimensions: ecologic, economic, political, and cultural. The three pill...")
• 16:20, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+913)‎ . . N Supranationalism ‎ (Created page with "A political and legal concept which first emerged with the Treaty of Paris in 1951, defining the reorganization of a “new” Europe. The term refers to the delegation or tr...")
• 16:19, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+473)‎ . . N Suffrage ‎ (Created page with "Defined as the right to vote in democracy processes. The term is usually a term applied to the right to vote for representatives in elections and on referendum topics. Citizen...")
• 16:19, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+847)‎ . . N Sudan ‎ (Created page with "Sudan is a North African state which has struggled with civil war and political and military conflicts for decades. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed in 2005 as an ...")
• 16:19, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+455)‎ . . N Subsector Analysis ‎ (Created page with "Subsector analysis involves the analysis of a value chain within a production sector. It involves identifying areas where value can be added, quantifying employment and produc...") (current)
• 16:18, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+497)‎ . . N Subaltern Studies ‎ (Created page with "The Subaltern Studies Group (SSG) is a group of South Asian scholars in the field of postcolonial studies. The SSG focuses primarily on South Asia, as well as the rest of the ...")
• 16:18, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+304)‎ . . N Subaltern ‎ (Created page with "Subaltern refers to a person or group of people outside of the hegemonic power structure of a colony and who are thus at the margins of society. The term essentially refers to...")
• 16:18, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+643)‎ . . N Structural Analysis ‎ (Created page with "Structural analysis is used when calculating how much weight load- bearing structures such as buildings, bridges, soil, machinery and so forth, can hold. This type of analysis...")
• 16:17, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+467)‎ . . N Strodtbeck and Kluckhohn Framework ‎ (Created page with "Fred Strodtbeck and Florence Kluckhohn were two cultural anthropologists most well known for their “Culture Value Orientations” theory (1961). The theory attests that ther...")
• 16:17, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+809)‎ . . N Strategic Environmental Assessment ‎ (Created page with "Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a system designed to ensure that aspects of environmental sustainability are taken into proper consideration in policy and planning...")

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