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| The economic, political, and cultural integration and interaction of all parts of the world brought about by increasing trade, travel, and technology. (p. 920) |
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| Effort to eradicate a people and its culture by means of mass killing and the destruction of historical buildings and cultural materials. Ethnic cleansing was used by both sides in the conflicts that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. (p. 922) |
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| weapons of mass destruction |
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| Nuclear, chemical, and biological devices that are capable of injuring and killing large numbers of people. (p. 923) |
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| 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 twentieth century with the growth of worldwide mass media that, through their news coverage, amplified public fears of terrorist acts. (p. 923) |
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| Saudi-born Muslim extremist who funded the al Qaeda organization that was responsible for several terrorist attacks, including those on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001. (p. 923) |
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| World Trade Organization(WTO) |
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| An international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade. (p. 927) |
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| Beliefs, based on prophetic revelations, in apocalyptic global transformations associated with the completion of cycles of a thousand years. (p. 930) |
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| Universal Decloration of Human Rights |
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| A 1946 United Nations covenant binding signatory nations to the observance of specified rights. (p. 933) |
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| 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). (p. 934) |
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| Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy or by economic or technological superiority. (p. 937) |
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| Entertainment spread by mass communications and enjoying wide appeal. (p. 938) |
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| Cultural practices and institutions that have been adopted internationally, whether elite (the English language, modern science, and higher education) or popular (music, television, the Internet, food, and fashion). (p. 939) |
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