Glossary
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A
Adae
adelantado
Age Structure
agora (pl., agorot)
Al Saud
aliyah (pl., aliyot)
Alliance for Progress
amir
amirate
Andean Group
Andean Initiative (or Andean Strategy)
Andean Pact
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty)
Aouzou Strip
apartheid
apparatchik
Arab Socialist Union
Asafo
Asante/Ashanti/Ashantee
Asantehene
Asefat Hanivharim (Constituent Assembly)
Ashkenazim (sing., Ashkenazi)
Asian Development Bank
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
audiencia
August coup d'état
autonomous entities (entes autónomos)
Autonomous Region
ayllu
aymag
ayurveda
B
Baathist
Baba Chinese
Backward Classes
Bahasa Indonesia
Bahraini dinar (BD)
bajraktar
Baker debt-reduction plan
balabat
balance of payments
balance of trade
balboa (B)
bandeirantes
Bangla
Bangladesh National Party
bani
Bank for International Standards (BIS)
Bantu
Bantustan
bar
baraka
barefoot doctor
Barisan Sosialis
barrels
barrels per day
barrels per day (bpd)
barriadas
beg
Bektashi
Belarusian ruble
Belizean dollar (Bz$)
ben
Bengal
Bengali calendar
berms
Bessarabia
Bessarabia (Basarabia in Romanian)
bey
bhikku
big-character posters (dazibao)
binomial electoral system
birr (pl., birr; no symbol used)
birta
birta
Black Flag forces
boat people
Boer
Bogomil heresy
boliviano
Bolshevik
bonze
Bosomtwi (Lake)
boyar
brahman
Brahman(s)
Bretton Woods System
Brezhnev Doctrine
British Raj (1858-1947)
Bukovina (Bucovina in Romanian; Bukovyna in Ukrainian)
Bukovina (var., Bucovina)
Bund
Bund(General Union of Jewish Workers in Russia and Poland)
Bundesbank
bushido
Byzantine
C
córdoba (C$)
cabildo
cadre
caliph
Cambas
campesino
Cao Dai
capital account
capital formation
capital goods
capital market
capital-intensive production
capitulations
Carpatho-Ukraine (also Subcarpathian Ruthenia)
Carta di Lavoro
cay
cay
CCN
central (pl., centrale)
Central America
Central American Common Market (CACM)
Central Bank
Central Bank Council
CFA franc
CFZ
Ch'llima, or Ch'llima Work Team Movement
Ch'ndogyo
Ch'ngsan-ni Method, or Ch'ngsan-ri
Ch'ondogyo
chaebl
Cham
Charter 77
Chemama
chena
chernozem
chi-bo
chikalsi, or jikhalsi
Chilean peso
China Proper
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)
chip, or jip
Chittagong Hill Tracts
chngbo
Choch'ongryn
chokpo
cholo
Christian Base Communities (Comunidades Eclesiales de Base--CEBs)
chuch'e, or juche
chungin
CHW
clan
clan-family
class struggle
clericalism
client, clientage
clientelism
Co Mat Vien
CoCom (Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls)
cognatic descent group
collective farm (kolkhoz in Russian)
collectivization
Colombo Plan
Colombo Plan for Cooperative, Economic, and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (Colombo Plan)
Colombo Plan for Cooperative, Economic, and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (Colombo Plan)
colon
colono(s)
colorums
coloureds
Comecon
Comecon (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
Cominform (Commmunist Information Bureau)
Comintern
Committee for Coordination of Investigations of the Lower Mekong Basin
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Common Market of the South (Mercado Comum do Sul--Mercosul)
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Commonwealth of Nations
communism/communist
Communist International
Communist International (Comintern)
Communist Party of Malaya (CPM)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)
communitarianism
Comoran franc (CF)
compadrazgo
comparative advantages
comprador
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
confessional, confessionalism
Confrontation (Konfrontasi)
Congress
Congress of People's Deputies
Conservative Jews
Constantinople
Constituent Assembly
Consultative Assembly
Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI)
consumer durables
consumer price index (CPI)
Contadora
Contadora peace process
Contadora Support Group
Contra
Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty
coronelismo
corporatism
corporatist
corporatist, corporatism
corregidor
corregidores de indios
corregimientos
corvee
Cossacks
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon)
Council of Europe
county (xian)
coupon
CPP.
CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
Creole
crony
crore
crown colony
crown land(s)
cruzado
cruzeiro (Cr$)
cruzeiro real (CR$)
cult of personality
Cultural Revolution
current account
current account
Cyrenaica
Cyrillic
Cyrillic alphabet
Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (CSFR)
D
d'Hondt method
Dalit(s)
danwei (work unit)
debt service
degredado(s)
Delhi Sultanate
Demarcation Line
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
democratic centralism
democratic parties
demokratizatsiya (democratization)
DENI
dependency analysis
dependency theory
Derg
descent group
deutsche mark (DM)
Devanagari
development plan
dey
dharma
dhikr
Diaspora
Diet
dinar
Directorate
discount rate
district
divan
Divided Zone
diya
DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
do, or to
Dominican Republic peso (RD$)
dong (D)
downstream
dram
dram
Dravidian
Druze(s)
Dual Monarchy
Duma (In full, Gosudarstvennaya duma--State Assembly)
duma (pl., dumy)
durable goods
Durava
dzong
E
East Bank
East Bengal
East Pakistan
East Slavs
East Wing
Ecclesiastical Base Communities (Comunidades Eclesiais de Base--CEBs)
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
economies of scale
EDSA Revolution
Eelam
effective protection
ejido
elasticity
Emergency
encomenderos
encomienda
encomienda
encomienda(s)
encomienda(s)
Encomiendas
Enlightenment
entail system
enterprise
Enterprise for the Americas Initiative (EAI)
eparchy
escudo
etatism
Ethiopian calendar year
Ethiopian fiscal year (EFY)
ethnic Belorussian/Belarusian
ethnic Bulgarian
ethnic Pole
ethnic Romanian
ethnic Russian
ethnic Ukrainian
Eurocurrency
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
European Community (EC)
European Council
European Currency Unit (ECU)
European Economic Area (EEA)
European Economic Community (EEC)
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
European Monetary System (EMS)
European Monetary Union (EMU)
European Union (EU)
Evangelicals
exarchate
exchange rate mechanism (ERM)
exclusionism
exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
expert
export-led growth
Extensive economic development
extreme poverty
F
Factor markets
factors of production
faqih
fatwa
FDP
feddan(s)
Fezzan
Finnish mark (Fmk)
First Indochina War (1946-54)
fiscal year (FY)
Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
Five Relationships
Five-Powers Defence Agreement
five-year plan
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
forint
four cardinal principles
Four Modernizations
FRAMPO
Franc Zone
franco valuta
Free Officers
Free Officers Movement
freedom fighters
French Equatorial Africa (Afrique Equatoriale Française--AEF)
Fretilin
FROLINAT
front
FY (fiscal year)
G
gada system
gamonales (sing. gamonal)
Gang of Four
Garifuna
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
Gaza Strip
Gdansk Agreement
GDP--(gross domestic product)
gecekondus
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
General People's Committee
general price index (GPI)
general secretary
Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
ger
Gini coefficient
glasnost
Global 2000
GNA
GNP (gross national product)
gobi
Golan Heights
gold córdoba (C$o, sometimes C$)
Golden Horde
Golkar
Gorkha
gourde (G)
Goyigama, Govi
GPC
Great Depression
Great Leap Forward
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Great Terror
Greater Romania
Greater Syria
Green Book
Green Line
gross domestic product (GDP)
Group of 77
Group of Eight
Group of Fifteen
Group of Fifteen (G-15)
Group of Seven
Group of Seven (G-7)
Group of Seven (G-7)
Group of Seventy-seven
guaraná (G)
gult
gum arabic
Gurkha
guru
Guyanese dollar (G$)
H
Habsburg Empire
habus
hacendado
hadith
hafr (pl., hafri)
Haganah
HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael (General Federation of Laborers in the Land of Israel)
halakah
Han
han'gl
Hanafi
haq mehr
hard currency
Hare system
Harijans
hartani (pl., harratin)
Hasid (pl., Hasidim)
hejab
Helsinki Accords
Henriques
Her Majesty's Privy Council
hezbollahi
Highveld
hijra
Hmong
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Hoa
Hoa Hao
Hofkriegsrat
Holy Roman Empire
homeland or reserve
Homowo
horde
hudood (sing., hadd)
hujar (collective pl.)
Huks, or Huk
human development index (HDI)
Hundred Flowers Campaign
hurals
Hussitism
I
Ibadi
ibn
ikhwan
Ikhwan
ilustrados
imam
IMF (International Monetary Fund)
import substitution
import-substitution industrialization
indÃgena(s)
indexation
Indian National Congress
Indian Tamils
indigènat
Indochina Federation
Industrial Free Zone(s)
infitah
informal economy
informal sector
Informal Sector
informal sector
Inner Mongolia
Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance of 1947
Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia (IGGI)
intermediate goods
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force Treaty (INF Treaty)
internal passport (propiska)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
International Development Association (IDA)
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
international reserves
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat)
Iranian
Irgun
iron rice bowl
Islamic clergy
Ismaili Shia Islam
Ismaili(s)
Israeli pound
Israeli pound
J
Jacobinism
jagir
jamaa
jamahiriya
janissaries
jati
Jatiyo Party
Jawi-Peranakan
jazirah
Jewish Agency
jihad
jizya
jizzu
JSS.
judet (pl., judete)
juku
K
kadkhuda
Karaites
Karaiya
Karava
Kardecian spiritualism
karma
Kazakh
kebatinan
kebele
Kennedy Amendment
Keren HaYesod
KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti in Russian)
Khalkha
khalwa
khan
Khasa
khedive
Khmer Rouge
khoueng
khouloughlis
kibbutz (pl., kibbutzim)
kip(k)
Kirata
Knesset
kolkhoz
Kollas
koruna (pl., koruny)
Kosovo
Kraj (pl., kraje)
kray (territory)
kremlin (kreml')
kroon (EKR)
Kulaks
Kurdish
Kurds
kuriltai
Kuwaiti dinar (KD)
kwanza
L
Ladino
lakh
Lamaism
Land central bank
Lao Issara
Lao Loum
Lao Patrocitic Front (LPF) (Neo Lao Hak Xat)
Lao People's Liberation Army (LPLA)
Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) (Phak Pasason Pativat Lao)
Lao Sung
Lao Theung
latifundios
Latin
Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA)
lats (LVL)
Latvian ruble
Law of Return
LD
League of Nations
Lebanese pound (L£)
Legislative Assembly
Lehi
lek (L)
lempira (L)
Lesser Antilles
leu (pl., lei)
lev (pl. leva)
Levant
Liberation Theology
liberation theology
licenciado
lineage
liquidity shortage
lira
Lisbon Protocol
litas (pl., litai)
literacy
Living Buddha or Incarnate Buddha
Lomé Convention
Lombard rate
London Club
Long March
LS
M
Maastricht Treaty
machine tractor stations
machismo
madraseh
Maghrib
Maghrib (adj. Maghribian)
maha
Mahdi
mahriyeh
Majlis
maktab
Malagasy franc (FMG)
Malayan Communist Party (MCP)
Maliki
manat
Manchuria
Mandal Commission
mandala
Manichaeism
Mao Zedong Thought
maquiladoras
marabout
Marginality
marginality
Maronites
Marshall Plan
Marxism-Leninism/Marxist-Leninist
Marxism/Marxist
Mashriq
mass line
mass movement
Mauretania
Mauritanian Kadihine Party
Mauritian rupee (MauR)
mayorazgo
mayordomos
medina
Menshevik
Mercosul
Mercosur (Mercado Común del Cono Sur-- Southern Cone Common Market)
Mesoamerica
mestiço (mestizo) or mameluco
mestiço(s)
mestizos
Metro Manila
mfecane
middle belt
millet
minifundia
minifundios
Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
missing-in-action (MIA)
mita
mita de minas
mita system
moderating power (poder moderador)
mola
Moldavia (var., Moldova and Moldau)
Moldova
MOLIRENA
monetarists
Moor
Moorish
moriscos
Moro
moshav (pl., moshavim)
most-favored-nation status
mostazafin
Mount Lebanon
muang (muong)
mufti
muhafazaat (sing., muhafazat)
muhajir
mujahidin (sing., mujahid)
Mukti Bahini
mullah
multilaterally developed socialist state
Munich Agreement
Muslim League
mustahaqeen
muta
mutawwiin
N
naira (N)
Nanyang
National Assembly
National dish
national income
National People's Congress
National Security Council (NSC--Mili Güvenlik Kurulu)
national solipsism
Nativity
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
naziriyah
NCWD.
near abroad (blizhneye zarubezh'ye)
negdel
neighborhood
Neo Lao Issara
net domestic product/net national product (NDP/NNP)
net material product (NMP)
new córdoba (C$n)
New Culture Movement
New Economic and Financial Mechanism
New Economic Policy (NEP; Novaya ekonomicheskaya politika in Russian)
new economic zones
new Israeli shekel (NIS)
new peso (NMex$)
newly industrializing economics (NIEs)
ngultrum
nibbana
Nigerian pound (N£)
Nihon (or Nippon)
Nizam-i-Mustafa
nomenklatura
Nonaligned Movement
nonalignment
nonparticipatory methodology
Nordic Council
Nordpolitik, or pukbang chngch'aek
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
NUGS.
O
OAPEC
OAU
oblast
obrajes
Odwira
official development assistance (ODA)
offshore banking
okres (pl., okresy)
okrug (pl., okruga)
Old Believers
Old Church Slavonic (also known as Old Church Slavic)
Omani rial (RO)
one country, two systems
OPEC
open market operations
opportunity cost
Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD)
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Oriental Jews
Oriental Jews
Orthodox Jews
Ottoman Empire
Outer Islands
Outer Mongolia
overseas Chinese
P
p'a
p'ansori
paddy
Pakhtuns
pakhtunwali
PALA
palatine
Pale of Settlement
Palestinian
Pali
Palmach
Panama Canal net ton
Pancasila
Panch Shila
panchayat
pandit(s)
Pannonia
PAPO
parastatal
Paris Club
Parrot's Beak
Partnership for Peace (PfP)
Party Rules
pasha
passenger kilometers
Pathans
Pathet Lao (Lao Nation)
patrón
patriarch
patrilineage
patrimonial
patronato real
PCR
PDC
PdP
People's Action Party (PAP)
People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)
people's commune
People's Power
perestroika
permafrost
Peronism
Persian
personalism
peseta
peso (Mex$)
peso (P)
Petofi Circle
Phalange Party
pharaonic
Phumphaek
piaster
pir
plebiscite
PLN
PNP
polders
Polexco
POLISARIO
Polisario
political culture
Polonize, Polonization
polygynous
popular sectors
positivism
PP
PPA
PPP
PR
praetorian
Prague Spring
PRD
pribumi
Primary exports
primary goods or products
primary sector
Procuracy
Procuratura
Produced Nation Income (PNI)
production brigade
production team
Protocol of Rio de janeiro (Rio Protocol)
pueblos jóvenes
pukpang chongch'aek
pulperÃa
Punjab
putonghua
Q
R
raion (pl., raioane in Romanian; rayon/rayony in Belarusian and Russian)
Ramadan
Rana
Rand
rand (R)
Rastafarian(ism)
rayon
rayon
RCC
real (pl., reais; R$)
real exchange rate
red
Red Guards
Red Terror
reducciones
Reform Jews (sometimes called Progressive or Liberal Jews)
Reformation
reformed sector
rehabilitation
repartimiento
Repelita (Rencana Pembangunan Lima Tahun)
republic
residencia
responsibility system
revisionism
Revolutionary Committees
rial
Richter scale
riel
Rio Group
Rio Treaty (Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance)
rist
riyal (SR)
Roman Catholic
ronin
Roosevelt Corollary
rosca
Royal Lao Government (RLG)
ruble
ruble zone
rufiyaa (Rf)
rupee
rupee (R or Re; pl., Rs)
rupiah (Rp)
Russian Empire
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic
Russianization
Russify, Russification
S
sabra (pl., sabras)
SADR
Sahel
Sahelian
Salagama
samizdat
samuha
samuha
San José Accord
Sandinista
sangha
sangha
santri
satyagraha
Scheduled Areas
Scheduled Castes
Scheduled Languages
Scheduled Tribes
schilling (S)
search and destroy missions
Second Indochina War (1954-75)
secondary recovery
Securitate
Sephardim (sing., Sephardi; adj., Sephardic)
seppuku
serf
Seychelles rupee (SRe)
Shabbat
shahadah
sharia
shariat (sharia in Arabic)
sharif (Arabic pl., ashraf)
shaykh
Shia (also Shiite, from Shiat Ali, the Party of Ali)
Shiite
shurfa (sing., sharif)
Singapore dollar (S$)
Sinhala
Sinhalese
Sipsong Panna
Slash-and-burn agriculture
slash-and-burn agriculture
Slavophiles
socialism (adj., socialist)
socialism/socialist
Socialist Education Movement
soft loan
sol (S/)
Solidarity
som
Somali shilling (Sh)
somon
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Southern Cone
Southern Cone Common Market
Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics--USSR)
sovkhoz
special drawing rights (SDRs)
special economic zones
spot oil
SRC.
Sri Lankan Tamils
SSS.
Stabex system
Stalinism/Stalinist
state capitalism
state farm (sovetskoye khozyaystvo
state farm (sovkhoz in Russian)
state of exception
statist
steppe
steppe
Stern Gang
Straits Chinese
Straits Settlements
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
structural adjustment loan
structuralists
subdistrict
Sublime Porte (or Porte)
sublineage
sucre (S/)
Sudan
Sudanese pound (£Sd)
sudd
Sudetenland
Sufi(s)
Sufism
sultan
sunna
Sunni--(from Arabic sunna, tradition or precedent)
Sunni(s)
Supreme Soviet (Verkhovnyy sovet in Russian)
suq
suryng
sustainable development
Svejk
swadeshi
T
Taean Work System
Tagalog
taiga
Tajikistani ruble
taka
Talmud
Tamils
Tannu Tuva
tariff
Tariff Schedule 807 program
tarikat (pl., tarikatlar)
Tariqa
tasseng
Tatar
TBA.
teff (eragrostis abyssinica)
Tendaana
tenentismo
tenge
terms of trade
territory
Teutonic Knights
That Luang
the Sudan
Theravada Buddhism
Third International Theory
Third Worldism
Thirty Years' War
Three Revolutions Team Movement
Three Towns
Titoist
to (do)
to dang
ton kilometers
Tonghak
Tonghak (Eastern Learning) Movement
topping plant
Torah
Total Defence
township (xiang)
transhumant
Transjordanian
transmigration program
Transnistria (Transdnestria in English)
Transylvania (var., Transilvania)
Treaty of Rome 1957
Treaty of San Stefano
Treaty of Tlatelolco
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty on European Union
Trekboer
tribal
Tripolitania
TUC.
tugrik
tumen
tundra
Turkish lira (TL)
Tuvins
Twelve Imam Shia
twice-born
twin plant
U
UAE dirham (Dh)
Uganda shilling
UGSR
Uighurs
ulama
ulama
ulpan (pl., ulpanim)
UM
umudiyah (pl., umudiyat)
UNADE
UNESCO
Uniate
Uniate Church
UNICEF
union
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
united front
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United States Export-Import Bank (Eximbank)
United States Export-Import Bank (Eximbank)
upazila
upstream
Urga
Uruguay Round
Uruguayan new peso
UTC
Uzbeks
V
value added
value-added tax
value-added tax (VAT)
varna
VAT
Veddah
velayat-e faqih
Vellala
vertical integration
VHW.
Viet Cong
Viet Minh
vilayet
village (nong cun)
voivode
Volunteer Society for Assistance to the Army, Air Force, and Navy (DOSAAF)
W
wadad (pl., wadaddo)
Wahhabi
Wahhabism
Walachia
Walachia (var., Wallachia)
wali
waqf
waranle
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Treaty Organization
wayang
West Bank
West Indies
West Sahara(n)
Western European Union (WEU)
Western Sahara
Westernizers
wet zone
White armies
White Revolution
WHO.
Witwatersrand
wn
won
World Bank
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World Zionist Organization (WZO)
Y
yala
Yalta Conference
Yamato
yangban
Yankee
yasaq
Yazidi(s)
yellow cake
yen (¥)
yeshiva (pl., yeshivot)
Yiddish
Yihe Huree
Yishuv
yobiko
Young Turks
yuan (-Y)
Yugoslavia
Z
zaibatsu
zaim (pl., zuama)
zakat
zamindar
zamindar(s)
zawiya (pl. zawaayaa)
zemecha
zila
zloty
Zoroastrianism