United Nations Resolution of May 1974 for a New International Economic Order to address concerns of LDC's

UN Conference on the Human Environment, held 1972, was first worldwide environmental conference in history

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio 1992. Effort by the int. Community to reach consensus on principles and a long-term workplan for global sustainable development, major output was Agenda 21 (referring to the Twenty-First Century), a global plan of action containing 294 pages encomp [..]

implies not the complete chaos or absence of structure or rules, but rather than lack a of a central government that can enforce rules

  Association for Progressive Communications comprises more than 20,000 subscribers to electronic listservers in 95 countries, and have recently been very much involved in agitating for global development and democratization of the United Nations

net flow of goods, services and financial transactions that takes into account outflows and inflows of money from a state

a state spends more than it receives from other countries

a state receives more than it spends in other countries

  a condition in which the distribution of military and political forces among nations means no one state is sufficiently strong to dominate all the others.  It may be global, regional or local in scope

the general capacity of a state to control the behaviour of others, power to cause another actor to do an action (also see structural power)