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1) Social relations involving authority or power. 2) The art or science of governing.
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intervention
Politics; Political Science
Interference of one state in the affairs of another, as in the question sometimes asked in the first decade of the twenty-first century, should the U.S. intervene in Sudan?
interventionism
Politics; Political Science
The policy that advocates intervention in the affairs of other nations in specific instances or as a general principle. Intervention can be military, as when the U.S. threatened ...
investment
Politics; Political Science
In terms of economics, investment is the spending of money on capital equipment, such as factories or machinery. In a more general sense, investment refers to purchasing an asset ...
invisible hand
Politics; Political Science
A term coined by Adam Smith in his classic text, The Wealth of Nations (1776). The idea is that if everyone in a society is pursuing their own economic self-interest, an ...
iron curtain
Politics; Political Science
A phrase made famous by British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, in a speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri in 1946, when he said, "An iron curtain has descended ...
Islamic fundamentalism
Politics; Political Science
A movement designed to return Muslim countries, many of whom are ruled by secular governments, to a system of government based on the principles of the Koran. Islamic ...
isolationism
Politics; Political Science
The policy of detaching one's country as much as possible from international affairs. American foreign policy in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and then again between ...
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