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1. 1973 oil crisis began on October 17, 1973, when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC, consisting of the Arab members of OPEC plus Egypt and Syria) announced, as a result of the ongoing Yom Kippur War, that they would no longer ship oil to nations that had supported Israel in its conflict with Syria, Egypt, and Iraq (the United States, its allies in WesternEurope, and Japan).

2. Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government. Government agency action can include rulemaking, adjudication, or the enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda.

3. African Union (abbreviated AU in English, and UA in its other working languages) is a federation consisting of 53 African nations as well asseveral intergovernmental organizations.

4. Alliance is an agreement between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal, is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force. It was signed in 1373.

5. Amnesty law is any law thatretroactively exempts a select group of people, usually military leaders and government leaders, from criminal liability for crimes committed

6. Anarchist philosophies argue for a total abolition of the state, with many anarchists opposing capitalism on the grounds that it entails social domination (through inequalities of wealth), involuntary relations and coercive hierarchy (through the perceivedpressure on individuals to engage in wage labour).
7. Anti-capitalism describes a wide variety of movements, ideas, and attitudes which oppose capitalism. Anti-capitalists, in the strict sense of the word, are those who wish to completely replace capitalism with another system; however, there are also ideas which can be characterized as partially anti-capitalist in the sense that they only wishto replace or abolish certain aspects of capitalism rather than the entire system.
8. Anti-globalization is an umbrella term that encompasses a number of related ideas.[1] What is shared is that participants stand in opposition to the unregulated political power of large, multi-national corporations, and the powers exercised through trade agreements.

9. Anti-globalization" is anumbrella term that encompasses a number of related ideas. What is shared is that participants stand in opposition to the unregulated political power of large, multi-national corporations, and the powers exercised through trade agreements. Recent developments, which are unprecedented changes in the global economy, have been characterized as 'turbo-capitalism' (Edward Luttwak), 'market fundamentalism'(George Soros), 'casino-capitalism' (Richard Longworth), 'cancer-stage capitalism' (John McMurtry), 'McWorld' (Benjamin Barber).
10. Armed forces of a state are its government-sponsored defense, fighting forces, and organizations. They exist to further the foreign and domestic policies of their governing body, and to defend that body and the nation it represents from external and internalaggressors.
11. Balance of power, system of international relations in which nations seek to maintain an approximate equilibrium of power among many rivals, thus preventing the preponderance of any one state. Crucial to the system is a willingness on the part of individual national governments to change alliances as the situation demands in order to maintain the balance.

12. Ban Ki-moon, is thecurrent Secretary-General of the United Nations.

13. Bank of the South, is a monetary fund and lending organization first proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The intention of the bank is to lend money to nations in the Americas for the construction of social programs and infrastructure.

14. Bicameralism (bi + Latin camera, chamber) is the practice of having two legislative or...