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- 13:46, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,461) . . N Hybridity (Created page with "====== Hybridity ====== <font 12.000000pt font-family: 'MinionPro'; color: rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%)/ ;;rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%);;#ffffff>A term ...")
- 13:46, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+3,256) . . N Hutu (Created page with "====== Hutu ====== <font 12.000000pt font-family: 'MinionPro'; color: rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%)/ ;;rgb(30.100000%, 30.200000%, 31.000000%);;#ffffff>Th</font> <f...")
- 13:45, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+699) . . N Huntington, Samuel P. (Created page with "====== Huntington, Samuel P. (April 18, 1927- December 24, 2008) ====== American political scientist, co-founder and co-editor of the influential academic journal “Foreign ...")
- 13:43, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,081) . . N Humanitarian Intervention (Created page with "====== Humanitarian Intervention ====== Humanitarian intervention involves the use of military force to intervene in a conflict situation. The intervention is not necessarily...")
- 13:42, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+826) . . N Human Security (Created page with "====== Human Security ====== Human security is an emerging theory that challenges the traditional assumption that security should be considered in terms of a nation, assertin...")
- 11:58, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+634) . . N Human Rights Diplomacy (Created page with "====== Human Rights Diplomacy ====== A diplomatic field encompassing policies and strategies directed toward promoting and protecting human rights. Many international organiz...")
- 11:58, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+515) . . N Human Rights (Created page with "====== Human Rights ====== Human Rights are basic rights which apply to all humans equally. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that: All human be...")
- 11:57, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+615) . . N Human Development Index (Created page with "====== Human Development Index ====== The Human Development Index (HDI) is a system devised to rank countries into four categories of human \\ development, created by economi...")
- 11:56, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+802) . . N Human Civilization (Created page with "====== Human Civilization ====== Concept which defines the collectivity of human beings in relation to the development of their environmental adaptability and to their techno...")
- 11:53, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+474) . . N Horkheimer, Max (Created page with "====== Horkheimer, Max (February 14, 1895 - July 7, 1973) ====== German philosopher and sociologist, member of the “Frankfurt School” of social research, famous for his w...")
- 11:51, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+718) . . N Holocaust (Dictionary) (Created page with "====== Holocaust ====== The Holocaust is the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the National Socialist Party (Nazis) during 1933-1945. The victims of t...")
- 11:50, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+557) . . N Hofstede, Geert (Created page with "====== Hofstede, Geert (October 2, 1928- ) ====== Dutch researcher in the fields of organisational culture, cultural economics and management. His international recognition a...")
- 11:50, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+679) . . N Historical Linguistics (Created page with "====== Historical Linguistics ====== The study of how language has changed throughout history. Historical linguists attempt to discover and describe changes in language, high...")
- 11:49, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+734) . . N High Culture (Created page with "====== High Culture ====== High Culture is the academic term given to a set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture. The term was in...")
- 11:48, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+346) . . N Heritage Site (Created page with "====== Heritage Site ====== A heritage site can be anything that a governmental agency registers as adding historical or cultural value to an area. By receiving the status of...")
- 11:48, 26 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+611) . . N Hegemony (Created page with "====== Hegemony ====== A Greek term which defines dominance and imperial power. In the realm of International Relations, hegemony is exercised by a state (hegemon) which rule...")
- 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...")
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