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| 371007330 | Globalization | A set of processes that are increasing interactions, deepening relationships, and heightening interdependence without regard to country borders. | 0 | |
| 371007331 | World Trade Organization | an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade | 1 | |
| 371007332 | Weapons of Mass Destruction | nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that can kill tens of thousands of people all at once | 2 | |
| 371007333 | Terrorism | Political belief that extreme and seemingly random violence will destabilize a government and permit the terrorists to gain political advantage. Though an old technique, terrorism gained prominence in the late 20th Century (890) | 3 | |
| 371007334 | Usama Bin Laden | Saudi-born Muslim extremist who founded the al-Qaeda organization that was responsible for several terrist attacks, including those on the world trade center and the pentagon in 2001 | 4 | |
| 371007335 | Universal declaration of Human Rights | A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights. (p. 892) | 5 | |
| 371007336 | Nongovernmental Organizations | Nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief. Two NGOs won the Nobel Peace Prize in the 1990s: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1997) and Doctors Without Borders (1999). | 6 | |
| 371007337 | Cultural Imperialism | Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority. (p. 894) | 7 | |
| 371007338 | Global Pop Culture | Popular cultural practices and institutions that have been adopted internationally, such as music, the INternet, television, food, and fashion. | 8 | |
| 371007339 | global elite culture | -at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the attitudes and outlook of well-educated, prosperous, Western oriented people around the world, largely expressed in European languages, especially English., At the begining of the twenty-first century, the attitudes and outlook of well-educated, propserous, Western-oriented people around the world, largely expressed in European languages, especially English. | 9 |
