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  • Industrialised Country

    Hierarchical Display of Industrialised country Economics > Economic conditions > Economic developmentInternational Organisations > World organisations > World organisation > Group of leading industrialised countriesInternational Relations > International affairs > International affairs […]

  • Cultural Political Economy

    Cultural Political Economy W.H. Sewell argued, in “The Concept(s) of Culture” (in V. Bonnell, and L. Hunt (eds.) Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture), “the system has no existence apart from the succession of practices that instantiate, reproduce, or – most interestingly – transform it. Hence system implies…

  • Graduation

    Summary of Graduation The act of recognition by the world community that formerly less developed Countries (read this and related legal terms for further details) have undergone sufficient economic development to be regarded as "developed"or industrialized nations. The recognition […]

  • Capital Punishment

    Introduction Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of execution have included such practices as crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, […]

  • Transnational Corporations

    Embracing mainstream international law, this section on transnational corporations explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here. Resources Further Reading The entry "transnational corporations" in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of […]

  • Transnational Corporations

    Embracing mainstream international law, this section on transnational corporations explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here. Resources Further Reading The entry "transnational corporations" in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of […]

  • World Trade Organization

    Unlike GATT, the WTO is a permanent body but not a specialized agency of the United Nations. Introduction to World Trade Organization World Trade Organization (WTO), international body that promotes and enforces the provisions of trade laws and regulations. The World Trade Organization has […]

  • World Trade Organization

    Unlike GATT, the WTO is a permanent body but not a specialized agency of the United Nations. Introduction to World Trade Organization World Trade Organization (WTO), international body that promotes and enforces the provisions of trade laws and regulations. The World Trade Organization has […]

  • Tradable Permits

    Tradable Permits one alternative to a pollution tax is a system of tradable pollution permits. In the international negotiations over greenhouse gas reduction, the United States has advocated the implementation of a tradable permit system for carbon emissions. Such a system would work as follows: Each nation would be allocated a certain permissible level of…

  • Tradable Permits

    Tradable Permits one alternative to a pollution tax is a system of tradable pollution permits. In the international negotiations over greenhouse gas reduction, the United States has advocated the implementation of a tradable permit system for carbon emissions. Such a system would work as follows: Each nation would be allocated a certain permissible level of…

  • Biological Weapons

    Characteristics of Terrorist Attacks: Chemical and Biological Weapons Introduction to Biological Weapons Concern over terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons increased after the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway and the discovery in 2001 of anthrax spores mailed in the […]

  • Biological Weapons

    Characteristics of Terrorist Attacks: Chemical and Biological Weapons Introduction to Biological Weapons Concern over terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons increased after the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway and the discovery in 2001 of anthrax spores mailed in the […]

  • Immunization

    Public Health Public Health Programs Immunization Introduction to Immunization One of public health's greatest success stories, immunization is one of the most effective weapons available to combat the spread of infectious disease. Immunization is the process of making the body r…

  • Prison

    Hello Introduction to Prison Prison, institution designed to securely house people who have been convicted of crimes. These individuals, known as prisoners or inmates, are kept in continuous custody on a long-term basis. Individuals who commit the most serious crimes are sent to prison for one […]

  • Duty

    A tax imposed by governmental authority on goods imported. The amount of the duty imposed on any given article is prescribed in the nation's […]