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101Social democracy — Social democracy …
102World peace — is an ideal of freedom, peace, and happiness among and within all nations. It is the professed ambition of many past and present world leaders.DefinitionWorld peace is the utopian ideal of planetary non violence by which nations willingly… …
103Paradiplomacy — The concept of paradiplomacy refers to the international relations conducted by subnational, regional, local or non central governments on their own, with a view to promoting their own interests. This feature appears to be an aspect of the… …
104Israel Labour Party — Israeli political party founded in 1968 as the union of three socialist labour parties. The Israel Labour Party and its predecessors led governing coalitions uninterruptedly from 1948 to 1977; since 1977 it has competed with the conservative… …
105Origins of the Royal Canadian Navy — At the onset of Confederation in 1867, political planners in Canada and Great Britain realised that Canada had substantial maritime interests to protect. Boasting the fourth largest Merchant Marine in the world, and deriving the majority of its… …
106Eastern Bloc — Also known as the Soviet Bloc, the Eastern Bloc was the geopolitical region that included the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its Eastern European satellites. At the end of World War II, the Red Army liberated much of Europe… …
107Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …
108United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
109Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… …
110Ukraine — /yooh krayn , kruyn , yooh krayn/, n. a republic in SE Europe: rich agricultural and industrial region. 50,684,635; 223,090 sq. mi. (603,700 sq. km). Cap.: Kiev. Russian, Ukraina. Formerly, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. * * * Ukraine… …
