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  • 11:16, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+847). . N Otherness(Created page with "The concept is used in the social sciences to determine how and why societies and groups exclude others whom they wish to subordinate or believe that they do not fit into thei...")
  • 11:14, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+449). . N Ostrom, Elinor(Created page with "=== Ostrom, Elinor (August 7, 1933- June 12, 2012) === American political economist involved with the work for new institutional economics and the resurgence of political eco...")
  • 11:14, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+405). . N Ostpolitik(Created page with "Ostpolitik refers to the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic (Eas...")
  • 11:13, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+690). . N Oslo Peace Accords(Created page with "The Oslo Accords, officially the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP), signed in 1993, were an attempt to set u...")
  • 11:11, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+453). . N Orientalism(Created page with "A term coined by Edward Said, referring to the ideas of the Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures held by Americans and Europeans. The term criticizes the division between ...")
  • 11:10, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+589). . N Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)(Created page with "Founded in 1961, the OECD is an international economic organization aimed at promoting the economic and social well-being of countries around the world. The OECD consists of 3...")
  • 11:09, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+667). . N One-World Culture(Created page with "Theory related to the phenomenon of globalization, whereby the increasing interconnectedness of the modern world will lead to a homogenization of the different cultural aspect...")
  • 11:08, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,182). . N Olympic Games(Created page with "The Olympic Games is the world’s leading sporting event, held every four years in different locations across the globe. Thousands of athletes, from over 200 nations, partici...")
  • 11:03, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,193). . N Obama, Barack(Created page with "== Obama, Barack (August 4, 1961- ) == The 44th and current President of the United States of America. Barack Obama assumed office on January 20, 2009, and was elected for a s...")
  • 11:00, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+757). . N Putin, Vladimir(Created page with "=== Putin, Vladimir (October 7, 1952 -) === Vladimir Putin served as President of Russia from 2000-2008 and was reinstated in 2012, serving as Prime Minister for the period be...")
  • 10:53, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+727). . N Pussy Riot(Created page with "Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock collective founded in February 2011 and based in Moscow that stages unauthorized, provocative guerilla performances in unusual locat...")
  • 10:51, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+504). . N Public Diplomacy(Created page with "Public Diplomacy is the term given to the influence of public attitudes on the formation and execution of foreign policies. Reaching beyond traditional diplomacy, Public Diplo...")
  • 10:50, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+452). . N Psychological Warfare(Created page with "Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR) is one of the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PSYOPS) and refers to the use of various techniques aimed at influencing a targe...")
  • 10:49, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+723). . N Propaganda(Created page with "A communication tool employed in order to influence the perceptions or beliefs of an individual or a group of people by presenting a one-sided argument. As propaganda is based...")
  • 10:48, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-14). . Main Page
  • 10:39, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+14). . Main Page
  • 10:26, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-1). . Main Page
  • 10:22, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (0). . Main Page
  • 10:21, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,041). . JKgroundforplay
  • 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 ...")

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