Politics
Adviser | Someone whose job is to give advice because they know a lot about a subject, especially in business, law, or politics. |
Advocate | A person who supports\backs\recommends a policy or cause about the subject |
Conciliatory | Intended or willing to end a disagreement and pacify. |
Policy | A set of strategies, guidelines, and actions which states and other actors use to interact with eachother to help achieve their goals. |
Contain | |
Predict | To talk of an event in advance based on your experience and observation |
Human Rights | Rights (such as freedom from unlawful imprisonment, torture, and execution) regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons |
Surplus | more than the amount that is needed |
Implied | To express indirectly |
Booming Market | An increase in economic activity; basically more things are being bought and sold |
Deficit Spending | Government spending; raising funds through borrowing instead of taxation. |
Foreign/Domestic | Foreign: relating to a country that is not one's own. Domestic: occuring inside a particular country; not external |
Candidate | A person who is nominated for election. |
Alleviate | To partially remove or correct something that is unaccepted. |
Allies | countries that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one, especially during a war |
Scenario | an imagined setteing or sequence of events |
High Stakes | A situation with significant potential for gains or losses, involving serious risks. |
Aid | The voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another. |
Ethics | |
Quandary | A state of uncertainty or perplexity |
Dilemmas | A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially ones that are equally undesirable |
Bureaucracy | Bureaucracy is a system of organization used to manage large institutions, characterized by a hierarchy of authority and a set of rules and procedures that govern operations. It often involves non-elected officials who implement laws and policies, and is commonly associated with government agencies and large corporations. |
NGOs | Nongovernmental organisations |
Sanctions | Enforcement or penalties issued by governments or international affairs towards other organizations, countries, or individuals. This could include financial or land restrictions. |
Oust | Force someone to leave a position of power or office |
Repress | Supress, prevent, or prohibit a matter |
Regime | A particulaar government or a system or a method of government. |
Theory | Gneral explanations that attempt to answer general questions about how international politics work are referred to as theories/ "a generalized explanation of a set of comparable phenomena" |
Globalization | the process by which particular goods and services, or social and cultural influences, gradually become similar in all parts of the world |
Degradation | the process of something becoming worse or weak |
Ambiguity | A situation or statement that is unclear because it has more than one possible meaning. |
Fundamentalism | the compliace to a specific interpretation of an ideology |
Inevitable | |
NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Orginazation. It is a intergovermental militarry alliance. |
Assertions | A confident and forceful statement of fact or belief. |
Scrutinize | To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly |
Analysis | A detailed examination of anything complex in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features: a thorough study |
Skepticism | A subject or belief treated with doubt or a questioning attitude; it is something that could be debatable. |
Political Science | The study of government and political systems, understanding political ideas, policies, and behavior. |
Methodology | A set of principles, strategies, and steps used to evaluate competing hypotheses. |
Rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively |
Macroeconomics | |
Skew | to cause something to be not straight or exact; to twist or distort |
Conventional Wisdom | a theory or belief which is generally accepted by everyone |
Prominent | Anything that stands out, often regarded as important and well-known. |
Statistics | the collection, analysis and interpretation of data to help understand global events |
Variables/Variants | |
Credible | good enough to be effective |
Consensus | general agreement |
Assumption | The act of taking possession or asserting a claim |
Dubious | |
Supposition | An idea or statement that is assumed to be true without any proof |
Utility | Usefulness, value |
Plausible | seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed |
Grievances | Something that causes distress in a way that makes one want to respond with complaints or resistance |