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| 6670607346 | Neoliberalism | Definition of 'Neoliberalism' An approach to economics and social studies in which control of economic factors is shifted from the public sector to the private sector. | 0 | |
| 6670607347 | Reglobalization | The process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of political ideas through communication, transportation, and trade. | 1 | |
| 6670607348 | Transnational corporations | When a foreign company invests in a country, perhaps by building a factory or a shop, this is called inward investment. Companies that operate in several countries are called multinational corporations (MNCs) or transnational corporations (TNCs). | 2 | |
| 6670607349 | North/South gap | The north-south divide has more recently been named the development continuum gap. This places greater emphasis on closing the evident gap between rich (more economically developed) and poor (less economically developed) countries. | 3 | |
| 6670607350 | Anti-globalization | Opposition to the increase in the global power and influence of businesses, especially multinational corporations. | 4 | |
| 6670607351 | Prague Spring | The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. | 5 | |
| 6670607352 | Che Guevara | Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as el Che or simple Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. | 6 | |
| 6670607353 | Second-wave feminism | Second-wave feminism also affected other movements, such as the civil rights movement and the student's rights movement, as women sought equality within them. In 1965 Casey Hayden and Mary King published "Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo" detailing women's inequality within the civil rights organization SNCC. | 7 | |
| 6670607354 | Fundamentalism | A form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. | 8 | |
| 6670607355 | Hindutva | An ideology seeking to establish the hegemony of Hindus and the Hindu way of life. | 9 | |
| 6670607356 | Islamic renewal | relating to Islam. | 10 | |
| 6670607357 | Osama bin Laden/al-Qaeda | Al-Qaeda is a global militant ... | 11 | |
| 6670607358 | Global warming | A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons,and other pollutants. | 12 | |
| 6670607359 | Environmentalism | Environmentalism or Environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements. | 13 | |
| 6670607360 | Rachel Carson | Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. | 14 |
