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🌏Global Studies
Key Terms

347 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Global Studies exam

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A

Absolute poverty
Acculturation Stress
Adaptive capacity
Administrative reforms
Affirmative action programs
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Age demographics
Agenda 2030
Agenda 21
Agricultural intensification
Ai ethics boards
Algorithmic bias
Amartya Sen
Amazon Rainforest
American Depositary Receipts
Amnesty International
Anti-apartheid movement
Anti-discrimination laws
Anti-discrimination legislation
Anti-globalization movement
Antimicrobial resistance
Article 5
Artificial intelligence
Asian Development Bank
Asian Financial Crisis
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Augmented reality

B

Balance of Trade
Bank for International Settlements
Basel III
Bilateral agreements
Biodiversity conservation
Biofuel technologies
Biometric identification systems
Blockchain technology
Blockchain-based systems
Broadband network coverage

C

Cap-and-trade
Capacity Building
Carbon tax
Carbon trading
Cesar Chavez
Civil unrest
Class-based discrimination
Classical economics
Climate adaptation
Climate change adaptation
Climate change as a multiplier
Climate feedback loops
Climate finance
Climate refugees
Climatology
Community organizing
Conditional cash transfer programs
Conscious Consumerism
Conservatism
Contact tracing
Convention on Biological Diversity
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Coral reef bleaching
Covid-19
Critical Geopolitics
Critical pedagogy
Critical Perspective
Critical Theory
Cross-border technology transfer
Cross-sector collaboration
Cultural appropriation
Cultural diplomacy
Cultural Hybridization
Cultural immersion
Cultural Intelligence
Cultural Narratives