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- 2. Part of UNESCO's mandate involves preserving the ___________________,such as world heritage sites, traditional skills and knowledge, and the arts.
- 5. Ocean currents and prevailing winds pay no attention to boundaries. This means that pollution generated in one country can be carried elsewhere — and the effects of pollution can be felt well beyond a country’s borders.
- 8. Countries are sometimes motivated to respond to events on their own.
- 11. The _______-__________ suggests that when people in developed countries
- 14. The _____________ became an official supranational body in 1991. It promotes peace, security, and justice.
- 15. ____________ is the active work to stop or prevent conflict between nations or communities, especially by an international military force.
- 17. _______________ is defined as a “condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services.”
- 19. A country completely opts out of participating in international social, economic, political, and military affairs.
- 21. The _____________ is a international organization whose purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
- 23. more money to spend, they will buy goods and services offered by businesses in less developed countries
- 25. _______________ involves several countries in working together on a given issue.
- 27. Sometimes, help is offered in the form ____ ___. Donor countries may, for example, issue credits that require the country receiving the aid to buy goods and services only from them.
- 29. _____ are the basic elements required for survival.
- 30. Nations and nation-states want to control their own fate and may try to do this by seeking either ____-_____________ or outright sovereignty.
- 31. ________________ is an approach that involves agreeing to abide by the decisions of an international organization made up of independent appointed officials or representatives elected by member states.
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- 1. The _______________ is also a contemporary global issue, though it is not a new one. Throughout history, this has devastated various peoples.
- 3. “If a despotic power incurs a debt not for the needs or in the interest of the State, but to strengthen its despotic regime . . . this is ___________.”
- 4. _____ are the things that people desire, regardless if the required object contributes to survival.
- 6. Decisions about how to deal with other countries are part of a country’s _____________.
- 7. In 1948, 23 countries, including Canada, signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which set out rules governing how member states would conduct trade.
- 9. _________________ involve cutting off trade with a country in an effort to force it to follow a particular course of action.
- 10. ___________________ refers to the total value of the goods and services produced by a country in a year, whether inside or outside the country’s borders.
- 12. It said that the UN has a _______________________ people when states violate or fail to uphold the rights and welfare of their own citizens.
- 13. ________________ is the belief that all members of the global community accept collective responsibility for the challenges that face the world.
- 16. Under a __________________ arrangement, an aggressor against any one state is considered an aggressor against all other states, which act together to repel the aggressor.
- 18. ______________________ is the phenomenon where people become less likely to trust important decisions to those whose values differ from their own.
- 20. When two countries are motivated by the same issue or need, they may take _________ action.
- 22. The organization represented by the acronym ___ was established in 1948 as an agency of the United Nations. The ___ believes that human health is a concern that knows no borders.
- 24. _______________ is the practice where many nation-states take action to relieve suffering and protect the innocent.
- 26. A single collective of citizens with common interests.
- 28. In 1991, representatives of the world’s eight Arctic countries met in Finland to discuss strategies for protecting the fragile Arctic environment. This meeting also included representatives of the Indigenous peoples who live in the Arctic.