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monroe doctrine |
The Monroe Doctrine is the best known U.S. policy toward the Western Hemisphere. Buried in a routine annual message delivered to Congress by President James Monroe in December 1823, the doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. |
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bush doctrine |
The Bush Doctrine refers to various related foreign policy principles of the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. Charles Krauthammer first used the phrase in June 2001 to describe the Bush Administration's "...unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM treaty and rejecting the Kyoto protocol." |
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ghandi |
born in 1869. assassinated by Nathuram Vinayak Godse in1948. led India's independence movement in the 1930s and 40s by speaking softly without carrying much of a big stick, facing down the British colonialists with stirring speeches and non-violent protest. |
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vietnam war |
The Vietnam War (1955–75) was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. |
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dependency theory |
Dependency theory is the notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. |
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commodities |
a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee. |
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mono culture |
the cultivation of a single crop in a given area. |
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staple export theory |
In economic development, the staples thesis is a theory of export-led growth based on Canadian experience. The theory "has its origins in research into Canadian social, political, and economic history carried out in Canadian universities…by members of what were then known as departments of political economy." |
