A WORLD OF NATIONS
In theorizing nationalism as a novelty on the stages of our global political history, Benedict Anderson refers to the nation state with THIS two-word phrase.
IMAGINED COMMUNITY
In his Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall argues that THIS COUNTRY is not just vast, but it needs to be vast.
RUSSIA
Early in the 21st century, most scholars and public intellectuals praised THIS new kind of media, as inherently democratizing.
SOCIAL MEDIA
THIS short-lived international organization was the predecessor of the United Nations.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
In the International Development documents of the aughts, “THIS Mainstreaming” had become a common phrase that signals a policy philosophy of wholesale improvement of a certain kind of justice.
GENDER
While celebrated for its immense potential, THIS technology is also being criticized for its middling tendencies as a danger to creativity and intellectual innovation.
AI
During the American Civil War, contemporary statesmen, intellectuals, and journalists perceived the war to be as much about THIS raw material’s global political economy shaping the worldwide web of interactions between states and markets, as about the unity of the American Republic.
COTTON
Over the last two centuries, THIS word gained an increasingly derogatory meaning to invoke an irrational fear of technological change.
LUDDITE
THIS “war” was a struggle of ideas and ideologies between its main actors, never a direct military conflict, even though it fueled many proxy wars around the world.”
COLD WAR
After much negotiation, THIS universal declaration ended up being a non-binding document, instead of an enforceable treaty.
UDHR
In “This Changes Everything,” Naomi Klein points an accusatory finger at THIS economic system as inherently at odds with our potential to step up to the planetary climate challenge we face.
CAPITALISM
On a rather disappointed visit to Cairo, the 19th century travel writer Gérard de Nerval wrote: “It is only in THIS CITY, where one finds cafes so Oriental.”
PARIS
Article 14 of the UDHR, establishes the right to THIS as an explicit human right to seek and enjoy freedom from persecution in a country other than one’s own.
ASYLUM
THIS two-word Analysis, is often invoked (primarily by economists) as the gold standard practice of rational choice theory, or an approximation of individuals/institutions/organizations’ ability to weigh advantages and disadvantages in their decision making processes.
COST-BENEFIT
Anthropologist Anna Tsing criticizes the hyper-optimism around THIS concept and its inherent invocation of planetary connectedness of peoples, ideas, cultures, and economies.
GLOBALIZATION