With the end of European world dominance after WWII, the rise of new powers such as the US, China and Japan and the expansion of geographical scope in international relations with the independence of former colonies and the proliferation of international organizations, diplomacy could no longer be confined to Europe. ... While new diplomacy saw parliamentary diplomacy being practiced in international organizations. ... However, new diplomacy is characterized by the democratization of their selection; family and social class are less important. ... New diplomacy, on the other hand, recogni...

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Historian Ira Berlin has called members of these communities Atlantic Creoles because of their connections to different African and European social and political networks. ... Various precolonial African social orders had towns and little urban areas. However even in these social orders, the vast majority were occupied with horticulture in provincial towns or residences. ... These progressions frequently tested existing qualities, convictions, and social practices (EA). ... This battle over evaluating highlights the difficulties confronted by poor nations in an undeniably worldwide business s...

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Around the world, unemployment or the threat of it remains one of the main challenges to long-term social sustainability. Indeed, the experience of recent years has underscored social sustainability as key to longer-term competitiveness, and thus to sustainable growth. ... More recently, in order to better place the discussion of competitiveness in the societal and environmental context, the World Economic Forum has begun exploring the complex relationship between competitiveness and sustainability as measured by its social and environmental dimension. ... It influences investment decisions an...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and new forms of multinational production. Whether or not such developments are good or bad is a topic of ongoing political debate. Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standar...

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