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- 14:31, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+591) . . N Civil Society (Created page with "====== Civil Society ====== An aggregate of many elements including non-governmental organizations, advocacy groups, and the media. These institutions are usually independent...")
- 14:27, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+852) . . N Civil Rights Movement (Created page with "====== Civil Rights Movement ====== Civil Rights Movement is the name given to a political movement for equality before the law. Many Civil Rights cases consist of non-violen...")
- 14:10, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+696) . . N Citizen Diplomacy (Created page with "====== Citizen Diplomacy ====== The phrase “citizen diplomacy” was first coined by American documentary filmmaker, David Hoffman, in 1981. It is based on the idea that av...")
- 14:09, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,162) . . N Chechnya (Created page with "====== Chechnya ====== Chechnya, formally the Chechen Republic, is a republic in south west Russia, bordering Georgia. Its capital is Grozny and it has a population of just u...")
- 14:07, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+642) . . N Cervantes Institute (Created page with "====== Cervantes Institute (Spanish Cultural Institute) ====== A not-for-profit organization established in 1991. The Cervantes Institute’s ultimate goal is to promote the ...")
- 14:06, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+462) . . N Center-Periphery Relations (Created page with "====== Center-Periphery Relations ====== Theory pioneered by Norwegian sociologist, Johan Galtung. The Center-Periphery model describes the structural relationship between an...")
- 14:05, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+580) . . N Carrying Capacity (Tourism Sites) (Created page with "====== Carrying Capacity (Tourism Sites) ====== “Tourism Carrying Capacity” is defined by the World Tourism Organisation as “the maximum number of people that may visit...")
- 14:03, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+675) . . N Carrying Capacity (Created page with "====== Carrying Capacity ====== Carrying capacity is a term gaining prominence in the movement toward environmental sustainability. It relates to an understanding that the Ea...")
- 14:02, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+431) . . N Carbon Footprint (Created page with "====== Carbon Footprint ====== The concept of the Carbon Footprint was developed as part of the ecological footprint discussion commenced by Rees and Wackernagel in the 1990s...")
- 14:01, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+685) . . N Capital - Social (Created page with "====== Capital - Social ====== Although the notion of social capital was created by Pierre Bourdieu, the theory was largely promoted through the works of the American politic...")
- 14:00, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+519) . . N Capital - Intangible (Created page with "====== Capital - Intangible ====== The definition of intangible capital has continued to evolve over the years. In economics, the term is used to describe the intangible asse...")
- 13:58, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+369) . . N Capital - Culture (Created page with "====== Capital - Culture ====== The concept of cultural capital was articulated by Pierre Bourdieu in the 1970s. Cultural capital refers to non-financial tangible and non-tan...")
- 13:57, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+636) . . N Capacity Building (Created page with "====== Capacity Building ====== The strengthening of skills, competencies and abilities of a country, which includes improving its institutional, resource, human, scientific,...")
- 13:56, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+691) . . N Cap and Trade (Created page with "====== Cap and Trade ====== A market-based approach aimed at constraining the aggregate emissions of pollutant by creating a number of tradable emissions allowances. These al...")
- 13:44, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+455) . . N Canada Council (The Canada Council for the Arts) (Created page with "====== Canada Council (The Canada Council for the Arts) ====== A Crown Corporation created in 1957, whose main priority is to promote the study, enjoyment, and production of ...")
- 13:43, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+724) . . N Buzan, Barry (Created page with "====== Buzan, Barry (April 28, 1946 - ) ====== Barry Buzan is associated with the Copenhagen School of Security Studies, which emphasizes the social aspects of security. He h...")
- 13:43, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+527) . . N Bureaucracy (Created page with "====== Bureaucracy ====== The term bureaucracy comes from the French word bureau, meaning desk or office, and refers to an unelected group within an office or institution tha...") (current)
- 13:42, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+887) . . N British Council (Created page with "====== British Council ====== Founded in 1943, the British Council focuses on bringing British language and culture abroad. The institute is involved in four main activities:...")
- 13:41, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+644) . . N BRICS (Created page with "====== BRICS ====== The term ‘BRICS’ refers to the developing or newly industrialised countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Particular emphasis is o...")
- 13:39, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+596) . . N Brezhnev, Leonid (Created page with "====== Brezhnev, Leonid (December 19, 1906 - November 10, 1982) ====== The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, presiding ov...")
- 13:38, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+815) . . N Braudel, Fernand (Created page with "====== Braudel, Fernand (August 24, 1902 - November 27, 1985) ====== French historian and a leader of the Annales School, which is regarded as the most influential institutio...")
- 13:35, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+515) . . N Brandt, Willi (Created page with "====== Brandt, Willi (December 18, 1913 - October 8, 1992) ====== German statesman and politician, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1964 to 1987 and Chan...")
- 13:35, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+699) . . N Brandt Report (Created page with "====== Brandt Report ====== The Brandt Report was written in 1980 by the Independent Commission chaired by former German Chancellor Willy Brandt to provide a deeper understan...")
- 13:33, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+676) . . N Bourdieu, Pierre (Created page with "====== Bourdieu, Pierre (August 1, 1930 - January 23, 2002) ====== A prominent twentieth century French sociologist and anthropologist, who developed the terminologies of soc...")
- 13:33, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+595) . . N Blue Plan (or Plan Bleu) (Created page with "====== Blue Plan (or Plan Bleu) ====== An environmental regional cooperative framework within the United Nations Environmental Programme’s (UNEP’s) Mediterranean Action P...")
- 13:32, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+660) . . N Black Power (Created page with "====== Black Power ====== Black Power is a political slogan derived from the name given to various analogous ideologies aimed at attaining self- determination for people of A...")
- 13:30, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+819) . . N Black Arts Movement (BAM) (Created page with "====== Black Arts Movement (BAM) ====== The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was the artistic branch of the Black Power movement, and was started in Harlem by writer and activist Am...")
- 13:28, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+430) . . N Biotic (Created page with "====== Biotic ====== The term biotic describes systems consisting of living organisms, or something that is associated with or comes from a living organism. As well as organi...") (current)
- 13:27, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+654) . . N Biodiversity (Created page with "====== Biodiversity ====== Biodiversity describes the variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, or planet. The biodiversity of Earth tends to be highest near...")
- 13:26, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+788) . . N Bilateralism (Created page with "====== Bilateralism ====== Bilateralism is comprised of relations between two sovereign states, and normally refers to political, economic, or cultural ties. Other forms of r...")
- 11:59, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+843) . . N Berger, Peter (Created page with "====== Berger, Peter (March 17, 1929 - ) ====== Peter Ludwig Berger is an Austrian-born American sociologist. His best known book, co- authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Soci...")
- 11:58, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+670) . . N Beijing Consensus (Created page with "====== Beijing Consensus ====== An economic development framework that represents an alternative to the Washington Consensus (see Washington Consensus). The Beijing Consensus...")
- 11:56, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+668) . . N Barenboim, Daniel (Created page with "====== Barenboim, Daniel (November 15, 1942 - ) ====== Israeli-Argentine born pianist and conductor. Throughout his career he has served as the music director of several majo...")
- 11:54, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+669) . . N Baltic Cooperation (Created page with "====== Baltic Cooperation ====== The governments of the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, have in recent decades established formal systems of cooperation t...")
- 11:20, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,000) . . N Balance of Power (Created page with "====== Balance of Power ====== In international relations and diplomacy studies, balance of power defines the equilibrium of power that prevents one nation or party from domi...")
- 11:19, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+967) . . N Austerity (Created page with "====== Austerity ====== Austerity measures are policies used by governments to reduce deficit in times of economic hardship. These policies are usually either tax increases o...")
- 11:18, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+48) . . Assimilation (→Assimilation)
- 11:18, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+650) . . N Assimilation (Created page with "====== Assimilation ====== In sociological and cultural studies, assimilation describes the process whereby a subordinate group or culture forsakes its own customs, values an...")
- 11:17, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+708) . . N Arts (Created page with "====== Arts ====== In the context of Cultural Diplomacy, art can be a medium through which intercultural relations can be shaped. Art can provide a way by which cultural heri...")
- 11:16, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+733) . . N Arndt, Richard (Created page with "====== Arndt, Richard ====== A renowned American cultural diplomat, currently residing in Washington D.C. Arndt took up cultural diplomacy in 1961, and worked for the US Info...")
- 11:15, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+125) . . N Arendt, Johanna "Hannah" (Created page with "====== Arendt, Johanna "Hannah" (October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975) ====== Category:The Cultural Diplomacy Dictionary")
- 11:13, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+877) . . N Arab Spring (Created page with "====== Arab Spring ====== The spontaneous revolutionary uprisings across the Arab World, propagated by a number of different factors including authoritarianism, political cor...")
- 11:12, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+513) . . N Aquifers (Created page with "====== Aquifers ====== Aquifers are underground layers of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials holding groundwater that can be extracted using a water wel...")
- 11:11, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+904) . . N Apartheid (Created page with "====== Apartheid ====== Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart’. The term is mainly used in reference to the apartheid in South Africa, where ra...")
- 11:10, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+680) . . N Anti-Semitism (Created page with "====== Anti-Semitism ====== The term anti-Semitism, originating from German journalist Wilhelm Marr in 1879, describes a prejudice against and/or a hatred of Jews. Anti-Semit...")
- 11:09, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+583) . . N Anthropology (Created page with "====== Anthropology ====== The multidisciplinary study of the nature of man, focusing on the comparison of cross-cultural differences and human behavior. Anthropologists pla...")
- 11:08, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+785) . . N Annan, Kofi (Created page with "====== Annan, Kofi (April 8, 1938 - ) ====== Diplomat from Ghana and the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations (1st of January 1997-31st December 2006). While in th...")
- 11:07, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+800) . . N Annales School (The Annales School) (Created page with "====== Annales School (The Annales School) ====== A group of French historians gravitating around the journal Annales d’histoire économique et sociale and associated with ...")
- 11:06, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+744) . . N Anholt, Simon (Created page with "====== Anholt, Simon ====== British independent policy counselor involved in advising governments on how to apply and develop strategies for improving the economy, political ...")
- 11:05, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+647) . . N Anderson, Benedict (Created page with "====== Anderson, Benedict (August 26, 1936 - ) ====== Professor Emeritus of International Studies, at Cornell University, and head of its Indonesian program. Professor Anders...")
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