Parsimonious
miserly or careful with money
Multipolar
Having different poles (of power)
Paradigm
A model or framework; a set of basic assumptions
Civilization
the way of life of a large group of people
Anarchical
Lawless, in chaos
Collectivism
Prioritizing a group over the individual
Ummah
Muslim community as a whole, as bound together by religion
Cohesion
Forming a united whole
Periphery
the area near a boundary
Dynamism
Activity and progress, particularly varied
Fault line
Divisive issue
Genocide
Killing of a large group, usually on ethnic or national basis
Proliferation
Rapid increase
Indigestible
Difficult to accept or understand
Demographic
Related to the structure of a population
Multicultural
Containing several cultural or ethnic groups
Sanctions
A penalty for transgression of some kind
Communal
something shared (within a group)
Containment
Keeping something harmful under control
Hegemony
Dominance, especially by one state over all others
