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164028696World Trade OrganizationInternational body representing 149 nations that negotiates the rules for global commerce and is dedicated to the promotion of free trade0
164028697Transnational CorporationsHuge global businesses that produce goods or deliver services simultaneously in many countries1
164028698Socially Engaged BuddhismA growing movement in Asia that addresses the need of the poor through social reform, eduational programs, and health services2
164028699Second-Wave FeminismWomen's rights movement that revived in the 1960s with a different agenda than earlier women's suffrage movement; [the people who participate] demand equal rights for women in employment and education, right to control their own bodies, and the end of patriarchal domination3
164028700Religious RightThe fundamentalist phenomenon as it appeared in US politics in the 1970s4
164028701ReglobalizationThe quickening of global economic transactions after WWII, which resulted in total wold output returning to the levels established before the Great Depression and moving beyond them5
164028702Prague SpringSweeping series of reforms instituted by communist leader Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia in 1968; the movement was subsequently crushed by a Soviet invasion6
164028703Augusto PinochetMilitary dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990 who was known for his widespread use of torture and for liquidating thousands of opponents of his regime7
164028704North/South GapGrowing disparity between the Global North and the Global South that appears to be exacerbated by current world trade practices8
164028705Neo-LiberalismAn approach to the world economy, developed in the 1970s, that favored reduced tariffs, free movement of capital, a mobile and temporary workforce, the privatization of industry, and the curtailing of government efforts to regulate the economy9
164028706Liberation Theology...10
164028707Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming...11
164028708Jihad...12
164028709Islamic Renewal...13
164028710Hindutva...14
164028711Che Guevara...15
164028712Global Warming...16
164028713Globalization...17
164028714Fundamentalism...18
164028715Environmentalism...19
164028716Bretton Woods System...20
164028717Osama bin Laden...21
164028718Antiglobalization...22
164028719al-Qaeda...23

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