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21Middle East and North Africa: Middle Eastern and North African Affairs — ▪ 1994 Introduction The bilateral agreement between Israel and the Palestinians for self government in parts of the Israeli occupied territories was signed by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) …
22Economic and Financial Affairs Council — The Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) is one of the oldest configurations of the Council of the European Union [http://www.consilium.europa.eu/cms3 fo/showPage.asp?id=250 lang=en Economic and Financial Affairs ] ] and is composed of …
23Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — (DEFRA) United Kingdom DEFRA is the UK government department responsible for the environment, wildlife, rural development, the countryside, sustainable development issues, farming, fisheries and food, animal welfare and hunting. Defra website …
24Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (European Commission) — European Union This article is part of the series: Politics and government of the European Union …
25Quaker Council for European Affairs — The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) is a Brussels based lobbying body, founded in 1979. According to its website, Its purpose is to express a Quaker vision in matters of peace, human rights, and economic justice [… …
26Probabilism — practical doctrine which gives assistance in ordinary matters to one who is skeptical in respect of the possibility of real knowledge: it supposes that though knowledge is impossible, a man may rely on strong beliefs in practical affairs. This… …
27education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …
28china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …
29China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …
30HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… …
