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Chapter 36
Global Interdependence
| Term or Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Developing Nation | Is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index relative to other countries. |
| Global Economy | Is the economy of all humans of the world, referring to the global economic system which includes all economic activities which are conducted both within and between nations, including production and consumption. |
| Developed Nation | Is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations. |
| Space Race | Was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability. |
| Terrorism | The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims. |
| United Nations | Is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. |
| Genetic Engineering | Is the direct manipulation of an organism's genes using biotechnology. |
| Industrialization Impacts | Has brought economic prosperity; additionally it has resulted in more population, urbanization, obvious stress on the basic life supporting systems while pushing the environmental impacts closer to the threshold limits of tolerance. |
| Materialism | A tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. |
| Popular Culture | Is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. |
| Fundamentalism | Usually has a religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs. |
| Multinational Corporation | Is a corporate organization that owns or controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country. |
| Sustainable Development | Is the organizing principle for meeting human development goals while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. |
| Global Interdependence | Refers to worldwide mutual dependence between countries. In other words, mutual dependence at a worldwide level. One nation depends on another for something. |
| Collective Security | A security arrangement, political, regional, or global, in which each state in the system accepts that the security of one is the concern of all, and therefore commits to a collective response to threats to, and breaches to peace. |
| The Kurds | An Iranic ethnic group native to a mountainous region of Western Asia known as Kurdistan, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria |
| Mother Teresa | was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. |
| The Four Tigers | Are the economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Between the early 1960s and 1990s, they underwent rapid industrialization and maintained exceptionally high growth rates of more than 7 percent a year. |
| Norman Schwarzkopf | Was a United States Army general. While serving as the commander of United States Central Command, he led all coalition forces in the Gulf War |
| Persian Gulf War | Was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from oil pricing and production disputes. |
| Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament. |
| Green Revolution | Is the set of research technology transfer initiatives occurring between 1950 and the late 1960s, that increased agricultural production worldwide, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s. |
| Cultural Diffusion | Describes the spread of one culture's practices, beliefs, and/or items, like food, music, or tools. This spread can be among members of the same culture or to completely different cultures around the world. |
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