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Political science

The social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics.

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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?

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 to invade Haiti in ...

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 which can produce ...

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 "invisible hand" ensures that ...

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 across the continent." ...

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 fundamentalism made its first ...

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 the two world wars, ...