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  • 15:46, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+559). . N Constructivism(Created page with "====== Constructivism ====== Constructivism is a theory within International Relations that attempts to illustrate that all concepts in International Relations are socially c...")
  • 14:53, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+719). . N Confucius Institute (Dictionary)(Created page with "====== Confucius Institute ====== China’s main cultural organization, founded in 2004 with headquarters in Beijing. The programs of the Confucius Institute are overseen by ...")
  • 14:52, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+703). . N Confucius(Created page with "====== Confucius (551-479 BC) ====== Confucius was a Chinese teacher and philosopher whose ideas and teachings still have widespread influence today and have spurred the crea...")
  • 14:52, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+744). . N Complex Interdependence Theory(Created page with "====== Complex Interdependence Theory ====== The complex interdependence theory was developed by Robert Keohane and Joseph Nye. It is based on the observation that countries ...")
  • 14:50, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+763). . N Communal Conflict(Created page with "====== Communal Conflict ====== A communal conflict is a conflict in which groups that define themselves using ethnic, national or religious criteria make a claim against the...")
  • 14:49, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+509). . N Commons (The Commons)(Created page with "====== Commons (The Commons) ====== Traditionally, the commons have been defined as elements of the environment such as forests, the atmosphere, rivers, or grazing land that ...")
  • 14:46, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+578). . N Common Pool Resource (CPR)(Created page with "====== Common Pool Resource (CPR) ====== A natural or human-made resource whose benefit can be enjoyed by an extended number of consumers and beneficiaries due to the size or...")
  • 14:44, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+564). . N Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)(Created page with "====== Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) ====== A group of leading analysts and experts, who monitor the implementation of the International Covenant ...")
  • 14:43, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,046). . N Colonialism(Created page with "====== Colonialism ====== The policy or practice of assuming complete control over a territory or people by an occupying force for a long period. The first use of the express...")
  • 14:42, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,046). . N Collective Action(Created page with "====== Collective Action ====== The use of collective resources, knowledge, and efforts in pursuit of a goal or set of goals. In politics or economics, collective action is o...")
  • 14:40, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+568). . N Cold War(Created page with "====== Cold War ====== The term first originated following the Second World War, to describe the geopolitical and ideological tensions between the then Soviet Union (USSR) an...")
  • 14:40, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+845). . N Cold Peace(Created page with "====== Cold Peace ====== Cold peace denotes an interstate situation of relative peace with an undercurrent of tensions. The countries do not pursue an all- out active war but...")
  • 14:39, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+560). . N Coase, Ronald(Created page with "====== Coase, Ronald (October 29, 1910 - ) ====== British- born, American based economist and Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. Coase studied at...")
  • 14:38, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+709). . N Climate Change(Created page with "====== Climate Change ====== Climate change refers to significant and lasting changes in the statistical distribution of weather conditions over periods of time. Climate chan...")
  • 14:34, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+883). . N Clash of Civilizations(Created page with "====== Clash of Civilizations ====== Theory presented by American political scientist, Samuel P. Huntington, in 1992. Huntington argued that in the post-Cold War era, conflic...")
  • 14:33, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+936). . N Civilian Power(Created page with "====== Civilian Power ====== The notion of civilian power emerged in the 1970s to define Europe’s changing role in the international system. François Duchêne, an adviser ...")
  • 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...")

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