Glossary Index

The glossary contains brief articles that provide key information on persons, organizations, events, places, and important concepts. These articles provide background for the research summaries in the Compendium, while also offering an encyclopedia of information on globalization and autonomy.

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Categories: Concepts | Events | Organizations | People | Places

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Concepts

Agency
Belonging
Boundaries
Citizenship
Climate change
Collective Identity
Colonialism
Commodity Trade
Community
Conditionality
Corporate Governance and Accounting
Corporatization
Cosmopolitanism
Cyberspace
Democracy
Embedded Liberalism
Empires
Fordism/Post-Fordism
Free Trade (Historical Dimensions)
Fundamentalism
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Genetically Modified Organism
Genocide
Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
Global Civil Society
Global Governance
Global Knowledge Economy
Global Public Intellectual
Global Soul
Human Genome Project
Hybridity
Identity
Imperialism
Indigenism
Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights and Land Claims
Indigenous Peoples' Rights
International Broadcasting
International Gay and Lesbian Rights
International Humanitarian Law
International Human Rights Law
Internationalization of Capital
International Protocols for Human Trafficking and Smuggling
International Women’s Rights
Internet
Legalization
Maquiladoras
Minority Rights
Modernity
Monoculture
Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
North-South
Ottoman Empire
Place
Political Apologies
Popular Culture
Post-colonialism
Refugee(s)
Reparations
Right to Development
Self-determination
Silences
Slow Food
Social Movement Unionism
Society of the Spectacle
Subjectivity
Terms of Trade
Trade-Related Capacity Building
Transitional Justice
Transnational Activist Groups
Transnational Literacy
Truth Commission
Visual culture
World Risk Society