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Transitional and developing states

Horizontales
An agreement signed in 1994 by the United States, Mexico, and Canada that established a compact to allow free trade or trade with reduced tariffs among the three nations.
The former Soviet Communist Party's system of controlling all important administrative appointments, thereby ensuring the support and loyalty of those who managed day-to-day affairs.
The policy of seeking to dominate the economic or political affairs of underdeveloped areas or weaker countries.
Countries where the ratio of population to land and jobs is unfavorable, where the economy is not highly diversified, and where literacy rates are low; three criteria used to classify LDCs also indicate the challenges they face: (1) low income; (2) human resource weakness (nutrition, health, education, adult literacy); and (3) economic vulnerability.
A theory holding that unequal and exploitative economic arrangements created by former colonial powers continued to be used to maintain control of former colonies and dependencies long after they gained formal independence in the 1950s and 1960s.
Literally openness; this term refers to Mikhail Gorbachev's curtailment of censorship and encouragement of political discussion and dissent within the former Soviet Union.
An individual's status and position in society are ascribed on the basis of religion, gender, age, or some other attribute.
Verticales
A term used to describe the widespread financial turmoil in Asian stock markets, financial institutions, and economies in 1997.
The creation of political institutions capable of exercising authority and allocating resources effectively within a nation.
A common term for often resource-poor societies that continue to observe pre-modern ways of life, work, and worship; often associated with high infant mortality rates, low life expectancy, poverty, illiteracy, hunger, and lack of the most basic medical services.
Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of encouraging democratic reforms within the former Soviet Union, including increased electoral competition within the Communist Party.
Term given to Mikhail Gorbachev's various attempts to restructure the Soviet economy while not completely sacrificing its socialist character
A policy of territorial expansion (empire building), often by means of military conquest; derived from the word empire.