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3rd Plenum of the (Chinese Communist) Party Congress (Dec. 1978) (E)
accountability (C)
agency (C)
Agenda 21 (E)
AIDS epidemic (E)
Akbar (PR)
Americanization (C)
anti-globalization (C)
Antonio Marighella (PR)
Arab-Spanish/Andalusian Empire (PL)
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (O)
"being-in-the-word" (C)
Benedict Anderson (PR)
Bharatiya Janata Party (India) (O)
Bhopal (PL)
Bill Gates (PR)
biodiversity (C)
Black Death
British East India Company (O)
Brazil (PL)
Business Council on Sustainable Development (O)
Canadian International Development Agency (O)
Caribbean/Black Atlantic (PL)
cartography (C)
Chernobyl (PL)
Chinggis/Genghis Khan (PR)
Christopher Columbus (PR)
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (PL)
civil war in Congo (E)
Cold War (identifies 3 phases) (E)
collective identity (C)
Cologne G7 Summit (E)
Columbian Exchange (C)
Columbus (PR)
co-management (C)
commons/public good (C)
Communist Parties (O)
Communist Party of China (O)
commuter train bombing in Spain (E)
company town (C)
Congress Party (India) (O)
connections (C)
conquest of Aztec Empire (E)
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) (O)
corporate crime (C)
cosmopolitanism (C)
cosmopolitics (C)
counter-hegemonic coalitions (C)
creation of the Euro (E)
cross-cultural trade (C)
Cultural Survival (O)
customary sea tenure (C)
culture (C)
Dar al-Islam (PL)
death of Michael de Guzman (E)
debt crisis of the 1980s (E)
debt-led growth (C)
Declaration of the Rights of Man (C)
Democratic Alliance of Hungarians (DAHR) in Romania (O)
Deng Xiaoping (PR)
dependency theory (C)
Deskaheh (PR)
deterritorialization (C)
development (C)
developmental elites (C)
digital piracy (C)
Doha Development Round (E)
East Asian financial crisis (1997) (E)
Eastern Europe (PL)
ecological crisis (C)
Economic reform (C)
Economic Social Forum (O)
Enlightenment (E)
epistemology (C)
Eric Hobsbawm (PR)
ethnic conflict/ethnic cleansing (C)
ethnicity (C)
European Empires/Asian Empires (C)
European Enlargement (C)
European Investment Bank (O)
export of capital (C)
Export Processing Zones (EPZs) (C)
Fall of Berlin Wall (E)
farmer's rights (C)
Fernand Braudel (PR)
First Nation (as synonym for indigenous people) (C)
flexible production (C)
foreign direct investment (C)
Forest Stewardship Council (O)
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) (Quebec City 2001)
frontier (C)
G7/G8 (O)
G70 (0)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (PR)
Genoa (PL)
George Soros (PR)
Germany (PL)
global activism (C)
global celebrity activism (C)
global citizenship (C)
global ecology (C)
global effects of accounting and corporate governance scandals of 2003 (Enron, Worldcom,etc) (E)
Global North (C)
global political discourse (C)
global soul (C)
Global South (C)
global standards (C)
globality (C)
globalization (C)
Goa (PL)
Gold Standard (C)
Granada (PL)
Great Wall of China (O)
green revolution (C)
Grenada (PL)
Gro Brundtland (PR)
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)/ Gross National Product (GNP) (C)
Grotius (PR)
Gujarat/Surat (PL)
Habsburg Dynasty (O or PR)
Herbert Hoover (PR)
Hernan Cortés (PR)
Hernando de Soto (PR)
historical imaginations (C)
Hobbes (PR)
homosociality (C)
Human Development Index (C)
Humanitarianism (C)
hybridity(C)
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) (O)
Inca Empire (O)
indigenous land rights/land claims (C)
Indigenous Peoples’ rights (C)
individualism (C)
intellectual property rights (C)
interconnectedness (C)
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) (O)
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (O)
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) (O)
International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) (O)
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (O)
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (O)
International Maritime Organization (IMO) (O)
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) (O)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (O)
International Water Rights Tribunal (O)
irredentism (in globalization context) (C)
Islamicism (C)
James Wolfensohn (PR)
Jawaharlal Nehru (PR)
Joseph Stiglitz (PR)
justice (C)
Klaus Schwab (originator of World Economic Forum) (PR)
Kofi Annan (PR)
Kyoto (PL)
Law of the Sea Convention (E)
Lhasa (PL)
local/global (C)
Locke (PR)
London (PL)
Lori Wallach (PR)
Maastricht coming into effect and possibly EU expansion (effects remain to be seen) (E)
Mabo Decision (E)
Magellan (PR)
Maghrebins
Malacca (PL)
Manchu Army (O)
Manila (PL)
Manmohan Singh (PR)
Marco Polo (PR)
Marshall Decision (E)
Masao Miyoshi (PR)
masculinism (C)
Maurice Strong (PR)
McWorld/McDonalization (C)
media convergence (C)
Meiji Restoration (E)
Mercantilism (C)
metric measurement (C)
Mexican financial crisis 1944 (E)
Mexico (PL)
Migrant's Assembly (European Social Forum) (O)
Missionaries (C)
modern rise of population (C)
Musa (emperor of Mali) (PR)
Mustafa Tolba (PR)
Narisimha Rao (PR)
Narrativity (C)
nation state (C)
NATO action in Kosovo (E)
nature (C)
nature and globalization (C)
neo-classical economics (C)
neo-colonialism (C)
neo-imperialism (C)
network society (C)
"New World Order" (C)
Nike (O)
No One Is Illegal (O)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (E)
Not in My Name (Jews against the Occupation) (O)
One Peace (O)
opium (C)
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (O)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) (O)
Organization of American States (OAS) (O)
Ozone hole over the Antarctic (PL)
Paris Club (O)
Peasant Global Alliance (PGA) (O)
Pentagon (PL)
Pizarro (PR)
plantation (sugar) (C)
planetarity (C)
political contestation (C)
political imaginations (C)
political movements (C)
popular environmental education (C)
post-nationalism (C)
primitivism (C)
progress (C)
protected areas (C)
Protectionism (C)
racism (C)
radio broadcast rights (C)
Rain Forest Alliance (O)
refugee (C)
regional culture (C)
release of Bush doctrine on pre-emption (E)
Renaissance (E)
rescheduling (C)
resource frontier (C)
Rio Summit (E)
Roman Empire (O)
Romany
Rousseau (PL)
Russia (PL)
Russian financial crisis 1998 (E)
Rwandan Genocide (E)
Sacking of Baghdad, 1258 (E)
Samarkand (PL)
science (C)
Seattle (PL)
Seville (PL)
Signing of WTO (E)
Site of Twin Towers in NYC (PL)
slavery (C)
Social Contract theory (C)
Society of Jesus (Jesuits) (O)
South Africa (PL)
South Korea (PL)
Southern Initiative on Globalisation and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR) (O)
sovereignty (C)
spiritualism (C)
Stephan Schmidheiny (founder of Business Council on Sustainable Development) (PR)
Stockholm Institute (O)
subculture (C)
supraterritoriality (C)
Susan Buck-Morss (PR)
sustainability (C)
sustainable development (C)
telegraphic communication (C)
territoriality (C)
Third World (C)
Tibet (PL)
Tobin Tax Network (O)
traditionalism (C)
translators/interpreters (C)
transnational capital (C)
transnational corporations (C)
transnational policy space (C)
transparency (C)
treasure fleets (Chinese) (C)
TRIPS Agreement
Truman Doctrine
unilateralism (C)
United Nations (O)
United Nations Commission on Dams (O)
United Nations Declaration on Human Rights (E)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (O)
United Nations Forum on Forests (O)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol (O)
Universal Postal Union (O)
universalist religions (C)
US Federal Communications Commission Act (changes 1997) (E)
US invasion of Afghanistan (E)
US/Mexican border (PL)
Vasco da Gama (PR)
Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia (E)
Venice (PL)
Vienna Convention on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and Montreal Protocol (O)
visuality (C)
World Bank (O)
World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland) (O)
World Conservation Union (IUCN) (O)
World Fair (1904 and 1915) (E)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
World Summit for the Information Society (E)
"World Systems" (C)
Zhou Dynasty (O)