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- 10:01, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+48) . . Culinary Diplomacy (Dictionary)
- 10:01, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+742) . . N Culinary Diplomacy (Dictionary) (Created page with " Culinary diplomacy is defined as “the use of food as an instrument to create a cross-cultural understanding in the hopes of improving interactions and cooperation.” Culin...")
- 09:52, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+682) . . N Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Created page with "====== Critical Race Theory (CRT) ====== Developed in the late 70s/early 80s, the Critical Race Theory is the critical analysis of race and racism from a legal point of view....")
- 09:51, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+924) . . N Creative Industry Mapping (Created page with "====== Creative Industry Mapping ====== Creative Industry Mapping is a tool used to give an overview of the competitive environment in the creative industry and traditional f...")
- 09:50, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+673) . . N Creative Industries (Created page with "====== Creative Industries ====== Businesses and economic activities which base their products and production processes on the generation of knowledge, information, and creat...")
- 09:50, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+426) . . N Creative Economy (Created page with "====== Creative Economy ====== A classification focused on the dynamic processes of innovation and knowledge creation in certain areas related to business, technology, and ma...")
- 09:49, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+493) . . N Creative Ecology (Created page with "====== Creative Ecology ====== A new approach that aims at stimulating creativity by looking at the local environment, and promoting ecological literacy and greater awareness...")
- 09:48, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+689) . . N Creative Class (Created page with "====== Creative Class ====== The concept of a creative class was developed by American social scientist Richard Florida. According to Florida, the creative class is the drivi...")
- 09:47, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+781) . . N Counter Culture (Created page with "====== Counter Culture ====== A subculture whose values, principles, and behaviours contrast those of the so called “mainstream” culture. The term was coined and defined ...")
- 09:47, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+444) . . N Corrupting Sea (Created page with "====== Corrupting Sea (The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History, 2000) ====== A co-authored book by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, analyzing the Mediterra...")
- 09:46, 25 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+451) . . N Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (Created page with "====== Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ====== A form of corporate self-regulation aimed at managing the impact that business activities have on different stakeholders, ...")
- 15:52, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+463) . . N Copyright (Created page with "====== Copyright ====== A legal concept concerning the exclusive right given to the owner of a product for a fixed number of years, allowing them to control the distribution,...") (current)
- 15:51, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+530) . . N Copenhagen School (International Politics) (Created page with "====== Copenhagen School (International Politics) ====== Associated with the academics Barry Buzan, Ole Waever, and Jaap de Wilde, the Copenhagen School theory emphasizes the...")
- 15:48, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+689) . . N Consumer Culture (Created page with "====== Consumer Culture ====== In a consumer culture, the economy is purely focused on the consumption of goods. According to consumer culture theory, our social arrangements...")
- 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...")
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