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  • 11:47, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+655). . N Harrison, Lawrence. E(Created page with "====== Harrison, Lawrence. E ====== American academic and expert in the fields of international development and cultural studies. He is SeniorResearch Fellow at Tufts Univers...")
  • 11:46, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+433). . N Hardin, Garrett(Created page with "====== Hardin, Garrett ====== American ecologist renowned for his theories on human overpopulation and on The Tragedy of the \\ Commons (1968), considered the theoretical bas...")
  • 11:45, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+769). . N Habitus(Created page with "====== Habitus ====== A sociological concept that refers to the social contexts and orientations that characterize individual social groups as formed through life experiences...")
  • 11:34, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+666). . N Habitat(Created page with "====== Habitat ====== Habitat can refer to any area of land, sea or sky which is used by a living organism or species as its main place of living. It is the natural or physic...")
  • 11:33, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+491). . N Gross Value Added(Created page with "====== Gross Value Added ====== Gross Value Added (GVA) is a measure in economics that refers to the grand total of all revenues compiled from a country’s production of goo...")
  • 11:32, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+615). . N Gross Domestic Product(Created page with "====== Gross Domestic Product ====== Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the official measurement of a country’s goods and services production. While it is often used as an ind...")
  • 11:31, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+495). . N Greenwashing(Created page with "====== Greenwashing ====== A compound term referring to the attempts of companies and businesses to deceptively promote their efforts and practices as being environmentally f...")
  • 11:31, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+455). . N Greenhouse Emissions(Created page with "====== Greenhouse Emissions ====== Greenhouse emissions are the gases that, when released into the atmosphere, contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radia...")
  • 11:30, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+695). . N Greenhouse Effect(Created page with "====== Greenhouse Effect ====== The term ‘greenhouse effect’ refers to the process of thermal radiation from the surface of a planet being absorbed by greenhouse gases in...")
  • 11:29, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+809). . N Green Strategies(Created page with "====== Green Strategies ====== Strategies and policies geared towards the protection of the environment. Given the devastating effects of climate change, due to global warmin...")
  • 11:28, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+832). . N Green Energy(Created page with "====== Green Energy ====== Green energy, also called renewable energy, refers to energy that comes from resources which are replenished continually, for example sunlight, win...")
  • 11:28, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+563). . N Green Economy(Created page with "====== Green Economy ====== A green economy is one whose growth in income and employment is motivated by public and private investments that reduce carbon emissions and pollu...")
  • 11:27, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+762). . N Green(Created page with "====== Green ====== The word ‘green’ is often used to refer to nature and the environmental movement, and covers a broad range of actions, policies and initiatives as wel...")
  • 11:26, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+942). . N Great Depression(Created page with "====== Great Depression ====== The Great Depression was a period of severe economic turmoil in the 1930s and 40s, resulting in the worst depression of the 20th century. It or...")
  • 11:25, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,201). . N Gorbachev, Mikhail(Created page with "====== Gorbachev, Mikhail (March 2, 1931-) ====== Mikhail Gorbachev served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991. He was al...")
  • 11:24, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+571). . N Goethe-Institut (Dictionary)(Created page with "====== Goethe-Institut ====== ​A non-profit German cultural organization promoting German language and cultural exchange around the world. Founded in 1951 as the successor ...")
  • 11:22, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+657). . N Glocalization(Created page with "====== Glocalization ====== A neologism combining the terms “Globalization” and “Localization”, it describes the process whereby goods and services are transported gl...")
  • 11:20, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+674). . N Globalization(Created page with "====== Globalization ====== The process of international integration which occurs as a result of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities...")
  • 11:19, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+511). . N Global Warming(Created page with "====== Global Warming ====== The term global warming refers to the rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century as well ...")
  • 11:17, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+706). . N Global Village(Created page with "====== Global Village ====== Linked to Marshal McLuhan, the term ‘global village’ suggests that through the development of technology the world has become more like one v...")
  • 11:16, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+325). . N Global Culture(Created page with "====== Global Culture ====== The phenomenon that the inhabitants of the world will eventually lose their distinctive identities and cultures, leaving behind one global cultur...")
  • 11:15, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+470). . N Gleichschaltung(Created page with "====== Gleichschaltung ====== Stemming from Nazi terminology, Gleichschaltung refers to the totalitarian control and coordination of civil society, in which non-Nazi organiza...")
  • 11:15, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+768). . N Glasnost(Created page with "====== Glasnost ====== Glasnost is the Russian term for ‘openness’. This term was introduced as a policy in the Soviet Union in the second half on the 1980s by Mikhail Go...")
  • 11:14, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,272). . N Gienow-Hecht, Jessica(Created page with "====== Gienow-Hecht, Jessica (1964 -) ====== Jessica Gienow-Hecht is a Professor of Modern History/International History at the University of Cologne. She has also been a Hei...")
  • 11:12, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+519). . N German Book Trade Peace Prize(Created page with "====== German Book Trade Peace Prize ====== The German Publishers and Booksellers Association, the official representative of publishing houses and bookshops in Germany, has ...")
  • 11:10, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+421). . N German Book Trade(Created page with "====== German Book Trade ====== An Association of German Publishers and Booksellers that unites publishers, bookstores, and book traders. Through the Frankfurt Book Trading F...")
  • 11:09, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,119). . N Genocide(Created page with "====== Genocide ====== The term genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1943 and is a combination of the Greek word ‘genos’ (meaning race or tribe) and the Latin word ...")
  • 11:08, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+620). . N Gastrodiplomacy(Created page with "====== Gastrodiplomacy ====== Gastrodiplomacy refers to the idea that food is a vehicle and of cultural exchange, and as such, can be used as a cultural diplomacy tool. Propo...")
  • 14:10, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+492). . N Galtung, Johan(Created page with "====== Galtung, Johan (October 24, 1930 - ) ====== Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, and founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies. Galtung is most famou...")
  • 14:09, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+622). . N Fukuyama, Francis(Created page with "====== Fukuyama, Francis (1952 -) ====== American political scientist and political economist, famous for his theory and book The End of \\ History (1992). He served as a pro...")
  • 14:09, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+343). . N Friedan, Betty(Created page with "====== Friedan, Betty (1921-2006) ====== American writer and Feminist, famous for her book, The Feminine Mystique. She was founder and first president of the National Organiz...")
  • 14:08, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+610). . N Free Trade(Created page with "====== Free Trade ====== Free trade is a government policy whereby a state does not discriminate against imports or interfere with exporting goods by applying tariffs to impo...")
  • 14:07, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+515). . N Frankfurt Book Fair(Created page with "====== Frankfurt Book Fair ====== One of the world’s largest and oldest book trade fairs, the Frankfurt Book Fair is considered one of the most prominent book fairs in the ...")
  • 14:06, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+241). . N Frames(Created page with "====== Frames ====== Frames are explanations put forward to make sense of the world and events. Governments, groups and individuals employ frames for themselves as well as to...")
  • 14:05, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+716). . N Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies(Created page with "====== Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) ====== A non-profit organization dedicated to spreading American cultural understanding abroad through the arts...")
  • 14:05, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+304). . N Foreign Affairs(Created page with "====== Foreign Affairs ====== A bi-monthly American journal which provides an in-depth analysis of international relations and US Foreign policy. Foreign Affairs is published...")
  • 14:03, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+854). . N Food Security(Created page with "====== Food Security ====== Food security refers to the ease of access to food amongst a population. Food security assessment is the method by which food security is measured...")
  • 14:03, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+530). . N Food Culture(Created page with "====== Food Culture ====== Food culture refers to the matrix of processes which relate to food within a given culture, including, but not limited to, its cultivation, prepara...")
  • 14:02, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+636). . N Florida, Richard(Created page with "====== Florida, Richard (1957-) ====== Richard Florida is an American urban studies theorist and currently a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotm...")
  • 14:01, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+598). . N First World(Created page with "====== First World ====== The concept of the First World developed during the Cold War and refers to the countries that the United States was aligned with during this period ...")
  • 14:01, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+2,386). . N Feminism(Created page with "====== Feminism ====== <font 12.000000pt font-family: 'MinionPro'; color: rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%)/ ;;rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%);;#ffffff>A global...")
  • 14:00, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-17). . Extraterritoriality
  • 14:00, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+767). . N Extraterritoriality(Created page with "====== Extraterritoriality ====== Extraterritoriality describes a state of being recognized as exempt from the jurisdiction of local law. This state is most often \\ applied ...")
  • 13:59, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+896). . N Extinction(Created page with "====== Extinction ====== Extinction is the end of life of an organism or organism group. Although the ability to repopulate or recover a species may \\ have been long lost, t...")
  • 13:59, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+501). . N Experience Economy(Created page with "====== Experience Economy ====== An economic and sociological concept coined by Josephine Pine II and James H. Gilmore in 1999. It refers to the idea that individuals will ex...")
  • 13:58, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+820). . N Evidence-Based Policy(Created page with "====== Evidence-Based Policy ====== Evidence-based policy is public policy that has been informed by extensive collection and analysis of widely researched objective evidence...")
  • 13:58, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,375). . N Europeanization(Created page with "====== Europeanization ====== <font 12.000000pt font-family: 'MinionPro'; color: rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%)/ ;;rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%);;#ffffff>I...")
  • 13:57, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+751). . N European Union(Created page with "====== European Union ====== The European Union (EU) is the economic and political union of 27 member states located in Europe that operates through a series of supranational...")
  • 13:56, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,832). . N European Parliament(Created page with "====== European Parliament ====== <font 12.000000pt font-family: 'MinionPro'; color: rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%)/ ;;rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%);;#ffff...")
  • 13:56, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+689). . N European Cultural Parliament(Created page with "====== European Cultural Parliament ====== The European Cultural Parliament is a European body aimed at promoting the role of art, language and culture in discussions about t...")

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