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1) Social relations involving authority or power. 2) The art or science of governing.

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balance of payments
Politics; Political Science

A statistical record of all the economic transactions between one country and all other countries over a given period. The transactions include goods, services (including ...

balance of power
Politics; Political Science

The concept that world peace is best served when no one power in any region gains sufficient military strength to dominate other states in that region. The term was first used to ...

balance of power policy
Politics; Political Science

The active prevention of any one state becoming too strong by the major powers in the system.

balance of terror
Politics; Political Science

The phrase was coined by British prime minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965). It refers to the situation during the Cold War, when both the United States and the Soviet Union had ...

balance of trade
Politics; Political Science

The balance between what a country spends on imports and what it earns by exports. A favorable balance of trade is when revenue from exports is greater than expenditure on ...

balanced budget
Politics; Political Science

A budget in which expenditure is equal to, or not greater than, income. In the 1990s, there has been growing concern about the federal budget deficit, and a proposal for a ...

balkanization
Politics; Political Science

To break up into small, hostile units, as happened to the Balkan states (Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Turkey and Romania) after World War I. A more recent example ...

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