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The term newly industrializing countries (NICs) was used to describe a number of developing countries that experienced significant levels of economic development during the 1970s and 1980s. The key indicators that were often used to characterize the NICs included high rates of economic growth, rapid industrialization, and the …
The new right refers to a set of political ideas or ideology that developed in the 1970s and that had considerable influence on political debate and public policy for over thirty years. In essence, the new right refers to the renewing and repackaging of classical liberalism as a …
Construction of news is the process by which information about events, people, and ideas is compiled into a format that allows it to be transmitted to an audience. The product of this process is the news, which the public consumes to varying degrees through media such as newspapers, …
International relations realists and idealists disagree about whether the international system can be transformed from a conflictive anarchic realm to a new world order of peaceful cooperation. The meaning of system transformation varies by theory. According to structural realists, the international system is anarchic and will remain so …
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an American theologian and political theorist best known among political scientists for his contributions to the classical realist school of international relations and particularly to its Christian branch. Niebuhr was born on June 21, 1892, in Wright City, Missouri. The son of …
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was born in Prussia in 1844, the son of a Protestant pastor. He attended Schulpforta boarding school and completed his PhD in classical philology in Bonn and Leipzig, where he became friends with composer Richard Wagner. In 1869 Nietzsche became a professor in …
The Peace Prize is one of five prizes endowed by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, who believed that the potential for devastation created by his invention, dynamite, would put an end to war. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901. Today it is worth about $1,650,000. Over …
Nonalignment refers to a policy of neutrality toward international security alliances. It is most commonly used to reference an organized movement of former colonies and developing nations formed during the cold war. A nonaligned country was by definition one that had no formal pact with either the United …
The term of noncombatant prisoner, while existing before, has expanded in meaning since September 11, 2001, and includes fighters not usually protected under international law. Noncombatant prisoners are typically not civilians but rather captured unlawful or illegal combatants or illegal enemy combatants—those who actively and willingly engage in …
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are private sector associations based in civil society pursuing policy advocacy goals and project management. Most frequently the term refers to associations with a transnational agenda or operations (for instance, Médecins Sans Frontières, a.k.a. Doctors without Borders), although some NGOs are oriented toward activities within …
Over the last two decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century, the concept of nonstate actors has become an indispensable part of the terminology of political science. The diffusion of finance and technology that has been fuelled by globalization has enabled nonstate …
Nontariff barriers to trade (NTBs) are human-made barriers to trade other than simple tariffs. These restrictive practices are designed to evade free-trade rules imposed by regional or international agreement. They include obstructive customs practices, quotas, product standards that are often justified on health and safety grounds, requirement of …
Nonviolence is both a moral principle and a pragmatic means of achieving social and political transformation. Nonviolence and pacifism are often considered synonymous ideas, but in fact they are conceptually and politically distinct. The preeminent scholar of nonviolent action is Gene Sharp, who identified the strategic principles and …
The term normative theory gained currency in American political science in the post–World War II (1939–1945) period as a consequence of the behavioral revolution and the rise of positivist-empiricist political science. Behaviorists sought to draw a distinction between scientifically oriented political inquiry and evaluative forms of political inquiry …
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a regional agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United States to implement a free trade area—the world’s largest, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. It was officially signed in 1992 and entered into force on January 1, …
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance of twenty-eight countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty. In accordance with this treaty, NATO’s fundamental role is to safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries by …
When Ireland gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1921 after two years of violent “troubles,” six counties in the northern province of Ulster remained within the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland, with a population of around one and one-half million, was established to satisfy the demands of a …
The term North-South relations refers to the relationship between the advanced industrialized countries in the global North and the developing countries of the global South. It is used in contrast to the superpower conflict between East and West. Of course many parts of the global South became directly …
Alec Nove (1915–1994) was an influential British scholar and one of the key founders of the discipline of Soviet studies. By the early 1960s, he was internationally recognized as the leading Western authority on the dynamics of the Soviet centrally planned economy. The author of eleven widely regarded …
American literary critic and political activist Irving Howe defines the political novel as a novel in which the dominant element is either political ideas or a political milieu. Howe’s pioneering study, published in 1957, still serves as a point of departure for studies of connections between politics and …
