Nationalism
The term “nationalism” is generally used to describe two phenomena:
- (1) the attitude of members of a nation who care about their national identity and
- (2) the actions undertaken by members of a nation when they are seeking to obtain (or retain) self-determination.
(1) raises questions about the concept of nation (or national identity), which is often defined in terms of common origin,
ethnicity or cultural ties; whilst an individual’s membership of a nation is mostly regarded as involuntary, it is under certain
circumstances considered to be voluntary.
(2) raises questions about whether self-determination must be understood as full statehood with complete authority
over domestic and international affairs, or whether something less is sufficient.
(in "Globalisation Processes A")
Natural capital/resource
Natural capital is a category of livelihood assets. It is the term for the natural resource stocks (e.g. trees, land,
clean air, coastal resources) people rely on.
(in "Livelihood Research Perspective - Assets, Practices, and Wellbeing")
Neo-liberalism
Neo-liberalism is an economic (and political) theory that rejects government intervention in domestic as well as international
economical activities and favours competition between actors at all levels, from the individual up to the nation-state. It
preaches free domestic market, free international trade, no restrictions on business activities and the protection of private
property.
(in "Globalisation Processes B")
New Economy
The label of New Economy was used in the late 1990 as a result of the fast growth in the information technology branch.
It supposes that the economic model resulting of the increased role of those technologies is different than the traditional
industrial capitalist model. However, many critics affirm that the new economy is not a change of model, but merely the integration
of new technologies within the traditional economic model.
(in "Globalisation Processes A")
New Left
New Left is a loose grouping of intellectual movements in the UK and US from the 1950s onwards, drawing on Marxism,
and concerned with promoting socialism. The New Left tended to be critical of the Soviet Union, and distanced itself from
rigid forms of Marxist analysis.
(in "Development Theories")
Non-industrialised countries
See Developing countries
(in "Describing Poverty")
North
See Developed countries
(in "Describing Poverty")
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