The German scholar Alexander Rüstow coined the term "neoliberalism" in 1938 at the Colloque Walter Lippmann. The colloquium defined the concept of neoliberalism as involving "the priority of the pric ...
Operation Condor, which took place in the context of the Cold War between Western societies and the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc, had the tacit approval of the United States. In 1968, U.S. Genera ...
Some understand the term political prisoner narrowly, equating it with the term prisoner of conscience (POC). Amnesty International campaigns for the release of prisoners of conscience, which include ...
Since 1945 Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East have been common areas for all military dictatorships. One of the reasons for this is the fact that the military often has more cohesion and insti ...
The terminology of a superpower is not clearly defined and as a consequence they may differ between sources. However, a fundamental characteristic that is consistent with all definitions of a superpow ...
While being a relatively new coinage, the term "pink tide" has become prominent in contemporary discussion of Latin American politics. Origins of the term may be linked to a statement by Larry Rohter, ...
Neo-Keynesian and post-Keynesian critics of the Consensus have argued that the underlying policies were incorrectly laid down and are too rigid to be able to succeed. For example, flexible labor laws ...
The concept and name of the Washington Consensus were first presented in 1989 by John Williamson, an economist from the Institute for International Economics, an international economic think tank base ...
Former departments of the current territory of France Department Prefecture Dates in existence Rh?ne-et-Loire Lyon 1790–1793 Split into Rh?ne and Loire on 12 August 1793.Corsica Bastia 1790–1793 S ...
The first French territorial departments were proposed in 1665 by Marc-René d'Argenson to serve as administrative areas purely for the Ponts et Chaussées (Bridges and Highways) infrastructure admini ...
Historian E. L. Joseph claimed that Trinidad's Amerindian name was Iere or "Land of the Humming Bird", derived from the Arawak name for hummingbird, ierèttê or yerettê. However, Boomert claims that ...
The official language is Dutch, which is spoken by the vast majority of the inhabitants. Besides Dutch, West Frisian is recognized as a second official language in the northern province of Friesland ( ...
The Netherlands in its entirety is often referred to as the much older designation "Holland", though this strictly refers only to North and South Holland, two of the nation's twelve provinces, that we ...
According to the 2012 census, Suriname had a population of 541,638 inhabitants. It is made up of several distinct ethnic groups.East Indians form 27% of the population. They are descendants of 19th-ce ...
Suriname (/?s?r?n?m/, /?s?r?nɑ?m/ or /?s?r?n?m/, also spelled Surinam), officially known as the Republic of Suriname (Dutch: Republiek Suriname, Dutch pronunciation: ), is a country on th ...
