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S.01 - System
S.02 - Development
S.03 - Planning/Plans
S.04 - Decision making process/Decision
S.05 - Projects
S.06 - Management
S.07 - Relations
S.08 - Institutions
S.09 - Natural catastrophes/Technical accidents
S.10 - Events (organised)
S.11 - Important personalities
S.12 - Time
S.13 - Other basic terms

S.01 - System ↑ top

S.01.01 System, general

Coherence 🔎
Cohesion 🔎
Compatibility/incompatibility 🔎
Complex systems 🔎
Correlation 🔎
Disintegration 🔎
External factors 🔎
Flexibility 🔎
Functions 🔎
Importance/role 🔎
Integration 🔎
Integration effects 🔎
Interdependence 🔎
Internal factors 🔎
Models/model cases 🔎
Subsystems 🔎
Systems 🔎
Systems analysis 🔎
Systems theory 🔎

S.01.02 Structure

Asymmetry 🔎
Balance 🔎
Centralization 🔎
Centre 🔎
Contradiction 🔎
Contrasts 🔎
Decentralization 🔎
Hierarchy 🔎
Imbalance 🔎
Instability 🔎
Interdependence 🔎
Order of precedence 🔎
Periphery 🔎
Polarization 🔎
Relation(s) 🔎
Resilience 🔎
Stability 🔎
Structural factors 🔎
Structure 🔎
Symmetry 🔎

S.01.03 Sphere

Binational 🔎
Civilian 🔎
Domestic/internal 🔎
Foreign 🔎
Global 🔎
Governmental 🔎
International 🔎
Local 🔎
Military aspects 🔎
Multinational 🔎
National 🔎
Non-public 🔎
Nongovernment 🔎
Public 🔎
Regional 🔎
Semigovernmental 🔎
Space 🔎
Sphere of influence/range of action 🔎
Supranational 🔎
Territorial extent of authority 🔎
Transnational 🔎
Underground 🔎

S.01.04 Autonomy

Autonomy 🔎
Dependence 🔎
Freedom 🔎
Identity 🔎
Independence 🔎
Interests 🔎
Liberalization 🔎
Liberation 🔎
Selfadministration 🔎

S.01.05 Conflict

Causes of conflicts 🔎
Coexistence 🔎
Conflict 🔎
Conflict behaviour 🔎
Conflict constellation 🔎
Conflict control 🔎
Conflict management 🔎
Conflict of goals 🔎
Conflict potential 🔎
Conflict prevention 🔎
Conflict resolution 🔎
Conflict settlement 🔎
Conflict theory 🔎
Controversy 🔎
Convergence/divergence 🔎
Course of conflicts 🔎
Crisis 🔎
Crisis areas 🔎
Crisis behaviour 🔎
Crisis management 🔎
Crisis prevention 🔎
De-escalation of conflicts 🔎
Determining factors of conflicts 🔎
Distribution conflicts 🔎
Domestic political conflicts 🔎
Efforts to settle conflicts 🔎
Escalation of conflicts 🔎
Ethnic conflicts 🔎
Generational relations 🔎
Intensity of conflicts 🔎
Intercultural conflicts 🔎
International conflicts 🔎
Labour disputes 🔎
Mediation/conciliation 🔎
Parties to conflicts/conflict participants 🔎
Post-conflict phase 🔎
Pre-conflict phase 🔎
Resource conflicts 🔎
Social conflicts 🔎
Solution of problems 🔎
Termination of conflicts 🔎
Theory versus practice issues 🔎
Water conflicts 🔎

S.02 - Development ↑ top

S.02.01 Development, general

Causes 🔎
Change 🔎
Continuity 🔎
Determinants 🔎
Development 🔎
Development phases 🔎
Dynamics 🔎
Effects/consequences 🔎
Faulty developments 🔎
Generations 🔎
Interrelations 🔎
Modernization 🔎
Modifications 🔎
Normalization 🔎
Obstacles to development 🔎
Problems 🔎
Process 🔎
Progress 🔎
Reaction 🔎
Reform proposals 🔎
Reforms 🔎
Risks 🔎
Safety measures 🔎
Security risks 🔎
Stagnation 🔎
Structural adjustment 🔎
Transition phase 🔎

S.02.02 Development in the past/Present situation

Present situation 🔎
Previous development 🔎
Situation assessment 🔎
Starting position 🔎
Tradition 🔎

S.02.03 Future/Development perspectives

Adaptation 🔎
Adaptation strategies 🔎
Alternatives 🔎
Development perspectives and tendencies 🔎
Expectations 🔎
Follow-up problems 🔎
Forecast procedures 🔎
Forecasts 🔎
Future 🔎
Futurology 🔎
Innovation 🔎
Misjudgements/misperceptions 🔎
Models (theoretical) 🔎
Models of development 🔎
Objectives/targets 🔎
Possibilities/alternatives for development 🔎
Problems of succession (personnel) 🔎
Programs 🔎
Reorientation 🔎
Retro-oriented development 🔎
Scenario 🔎
Strategy 🔎
Utopianism 🔎

S.03 - Planning/Plans ↑ top

Central planning 🔎
Coordination of plans 🔎
Decentralized planning 🔎
Development planning 🔎
Development plans 🔎
Execution of plans 🔎
Framework planning 🔎
Fulfilment of plans 🔎
Long-term planning/plans 🔎
Medium-term planning/plans 🔎
Planning 🔎
Planning agencies 🔎
Planning methods 🔎
Planning offices 🔎
Planning process 🔎
Planning time scales 🔎
Plans 🔎
Regional development/planning 🔎
Short-term planning/plans 🔎
Special plan 🔎

S.04 - Decision making process/Decision ↑ top

S.04.01 Analysis/Evaluation

Analysis 🔎
Assessment/appraisal 🔎
Comparison 🔎
Consequences/conclusions 🔎
Criteria 🔎
Criticism 🔎
Differences 🔎
Error estimation/ratio of errors 🔎
Evaluation 🔎
Evaluation problems 🔎
Exemplary cases 🔎
Impact assessment 🔎
Indicators 🔎
Intelligence (information) 🔎
Methods of assessment 🔎
Models/model cases 🔎
Reevaluation/reinterpretation 🔎
Risk assessment 🔎
Self-image 🔎

S.04.02 Decision making process

Compromise 🔎
Concepts 🔎
Conflict of goals 🔎
Consent 🔎
Debates 🔎
Decision-making powers 🔎
Decision-making processes 🔎
Dissent 🔎
Doctrines 🔎
Draft resolutions 🔎
Linkage 🔎
Objectives/targets 🔎
Proposals/initiatives 🔎
Reform proposals 🔎
Ultimatum 🔎

S.04.03 Consultancy

Advisers 🔎
Advisory institutions/bodies 🔎
Advisory services 🔎
Committees of experts 🔎
Consultancy 🔎
Consultancy firms 🔎
External consultation system 🔎
Financial consultancy 🔎
Foreign policy consultancy 🔎
Management consultancy 🔎
Political consultancy 🔎

S.04.04 Negotiations

Adjournment or suspension of negotiations 🔎
Course of negotiations 🔎
Duration of negotiations and sessions 🔎
Methods of negotiation 🔎
Negotiating mandate 🔎
Negotiating position 🔎
Negotiating strategies 🔎
Negotiation aims 🔎
Negotiations 🔎
Preparation of negotiations 🔎
Procedural issues in negotiations 🔎
Results of negotiations 🔎
Subjects of negotiations 🔎

S.04.05 Resolution and election procedures

Decision-making procedures 🔎
Election of individuals 🔎
Elections/voting 🔎
Majority principle 🔎
Quorum 🔎
Referenda on subject issues 🔎
Unanimity principle 🔎
Veto 🔎
Voting criteria 🔎
Voting procedures 🔎

S.04.06 Resolutions/Decisions

Basic decisions 🔎
Contracts 🔎
Minority votes 🔎
Resignation 🔎
Resolutions/decisions 🔎
Understandings 🔎
Voting results 🔎

S.05 - Projects ↑ top

Action programmes/action plans 🔎
Development projects 🔎
Execution of projects 🔎
Expert opinions 🔎
Experts 🔎
Feasibility studies 🔎
Follow-up contacts 🔎
Foreign and development aid projects 🔎
Implementation 🔎
Pilot projects 🔎
Preparation of projects 🔎
Procedures for project approval 🔎
Project evaluation 🔎
Project financing 🔎
Project management 🔎
Project results 🔎
Projects 🔎
Promotion/support 🔎
Reconstruction 🔎
Recovery/redevelopment 🔎
Research projects 🔎

S.06 - Management ↑ top

S.06.01 Management, general

Administration 🔎
Bodies responsible for measures 🔎
Cadres 🔎
Competence (powers) 🔎
Control/regulation 🔎
Cooperation 🔎
Coordination 🔎
Definition of tasks 🔎
Guidelines/regulations 🔎
Harmonization 🔎
Hierarchy 🔎
Integration 🔎
Leadership 🔎
Management (functional) 🔎
Management information systems 🔎
Networks (institutional/social) 🔎
Organization/reorganization 🔎
Priorities 🔎
Responsibility 🔎
Senior executives 🔎
Staffing plan 🔎
Work programmes 🔎

S.06.02 Instruments/Procedures

Countermeasures 🔎
Instruments (procedures) 🔎
Measures 🔎
Methods 🔎
Observer and fact finding missions 🔎
Practice 🔎
Procedures 🔎
Promotion/support 🔎
Quota regulations 🔎
Selection procedures 🔎
Sphere of influence/range of action 🔎

S.06.03 Utilization/Profitability

Allocations 🔎
Benefit 🔎
Capacity 🔎
Cost-benefit relationship 🔎
Damage 🔎
Deficits 🔎
Elasticity 🔎
Expenses 🔎
Growth rates 🔎
Increase/expansion 🔎
Intensity 🔎
Mobility 🔎
Need 🔎
Performance/capability 🔎
Potential 🔎
Productivity 🔎
Profitability 🔎
Reduction/decline 🔎
Relations between means and ends 🔎
Returns 🔎
Shortages 🔎
Substitution 🔎
Utilization/degree of use 🔎

S.06.04 Control

Control procedures 🔎
Control/supervision 🔎
Divided power 🔎
Error estimation/ratio of errors 🔎
Errors/faults 🔎
Methods of measurement 🔎
Monitoring 🔎
Quality controls 🔎
Rationality 🔎

S.06.05 Performance

Contributions (output) 🔎
Creativity 🔎
Discipline 🔎
Honours/awards 🔎
Incentives 🔎
Minimum standard 🔎
Motivation 🔎
Performance data 🔎
Performance measurement 🔎
Performance/capability 🔎
Qualifications 🔎
Results/outcomes 🔎
Work discipline 🔎

S.07 - Relations ↑ top

Bilateral 🔎
Burden sharing 🔎
Coherence 🔎
Cohesion 🔎
Correlation 🔎
Dependence 🔎
Disengagement 🔎
Hierarchy 🔎
Independence 🔎
Interdependence 🔎
Interrelations 🔎
Loyalty 🔎
Marginalization 🔎
Mistrust 🔎
Multilateral 🔎
Partnership 🔎
Relationship 🔎
Trust 🔎

S.08 - Institutions ↑ top

S.08.01 Institutions, general

Capability of institutions/organizations 🔎
Competence (powers) 🔎
Conflict resolution capacity of institutions/organizations 🔎
Dissolution of institutions/organizations 🔎
Founding of institutions/organizations 🔎
Freedom of association 🔎
Guidance capacity of institutions/organizations 🔎
Institutional conflicts 🔎
Institutionalization 🔎
Institutions 🔎
Legal forms 🔎
Legal status 🔎
Organization principles of institutions/organizations 🔎
Problem solving capacity of institutions/organizations 🔎
Scope of action of institutions/organizations 🔎
Special field/field of work 🔎
Statutes/bylaws of institutions 🔎
Subsidiarity 🔎

S.08.02 Institutions, functional

Advisory institutions/bodies 🔎
Appointment, reshuffle or dismissal of personnel 🔎
Association (membership type) 🔎
Boards of executive directors 🔎
Bodies within an association 🔎
Chief executive officers 🔎
Collegial bodies 🔎
Commissions of inquiry 🔎
Commissions/committees 🔎
Committees of experts 🔎
Composition of panels 🔎
Degree of affiliation 🔎
Elected representatives 🔎
Employee representation 🔎
Executive management 🔎
Foundations (legal form) 🔎
Full members 🔎
General assemblies/members meetings 🔎
Institutions operating under public law 🔎
Internal organization of institutions/organizations 🔎
Internal subunits of institutions 🔎
Managing and coordinating bodies 🔎
Membership 🔎
Nongovernmental organizations 🔎
Observer status 🔎
Planning agencies 🔎
Planning offices 🔎
Regional offices 🔎
Relations between groups/institutions 🔎
Representations abroad 🔎
Seat/headquarters 🔎
Specialists associations 🔎
Supervisory and control bodies/institutions 🔎
Umbrella organizations/national confederations 🔎
Voluntary organizations 🔎
Withdrawal/expulsion of members 🔎
Working groups 🔎

S.08.03 International institutions

Committees of councils of international organizations 🔎
Consulates 🔎
Departments of international executive bodies 🔎
Diplomatic missions 🔎
Embassies 🔎
Executive bodies of international organizations 🔎
Intergovernmental commissions 🔎
International administrative bodies 🔎
International arbitration courts 🔎
International bodies 🔎
International communication organizations 🔎
International consultative bodies 🔎
International economic organizations 🔎
International educational organizations 🔎
International financial organizations 🔎
International governmental organizations 🔎
International health organizations 🔎
International human rights organizations 🔎
International humanitarian organizations 🔎
International management and coordination bodies 🔎
International organizations 🔎
International professional associations 🔎
International scientific organizations/associations 🔎
International supervisory and control bodies 🔎
International trade organizations 🔎
International transport organizations 🔎
International working groups 🔎
Judicial bodies of international organizations 🔎
Legations 🔎
Military defence organizations 🔎
Military missions 🔎
National delegates 🔎
Organs of international organizations 🔎
Quasi-diplomatic missions 🔎
Representations abroad 🔎
Trade missions 🔎

S.08.04 National political institutions

Audit offices 🔎
Financial/fiscal administration 🔎
Foreign intelligence services 🔎
Foreign ministries 🔎
Government agencies (other than ministries) 🔎
Government institutions 🔎
Highest state institutions 🔎
Ministries of agriculture 🔎
Ministries of cultural affairs 🔎
Ministries of defence 🔎
Ministries of economic affairs 🔎
Ministries of education 🔎
Ministries of environmental affairs 🔎
Ministries of foreign trade 🔎
Ministries of health 🔎
Ministries of industry 🔎
Ministries of justice 🔎
Ministries of labour/social affairs 🔎
Ministries of science/research 🔎
Ministries of the interior 🔎
Ministries of transport 🔎
Offices of heads of government 🔎
Parliamentary ad hoc committees 🔎
Parliamentary committees 🔎
Parliamentary groups 🔎
Parliamentary subcommittees 🔎
Planning agencies 🔎
Political institutions 🔎
Political parties 🔎
Press and information agencies/ministries 🔎
Regional parliaments 🔎
Secret police 🔎
State institutions 🔎

S.08.05 Military institutions

Military command agencies 🔎
Military courts 🔎
Military headquarters 🔎
Military institutions 🔎
Military intelligence services 🔎
Ministries of defence 🔎
Officers schools (armed services) 🔎

S.08.06 Scientific institutions

Academic and research units 🔎
Academies of sciences/learned societies 🔎
Foreign policy research institutions 🔎
International academic and research units 🔎
International scientific organizations/associations 🔎
Large scale research centres 🔎
Public academic and research units 🔎
Research departments 🔎
Research groups 🔎
Research institutes 🔎
Scientific and research associations 🔎
Semipublic academic and research units 🔎
University institutes 🔎
University research units 🔎

S.08.07 Cultural institutions

Central libraries 🔎
Cultural institutes 🔎
Cultural institutions 🔎
Foreign cultural institutes 🔎
Libraries 🔎
Museums 🔎
National and state archives 🔎
National and state libraries 🔎
Private collections 🔎
School libraries 🔎
Special libraries 🔎
Specialized information centres 🔎
Theatre 🔎
University libraries 🔎

S.08.08 Societal institutions

Citizens action initiatives 🔎
Clubs 🔎
Confederations 🔎
Ecclesiastical institutions 🔎
Environmental organizations 🔎
Foreign cultural associations 🔎
Human rights organizations 🔎
Political associations/groupings 🔎
Relief organizations 🔎
Religious associations 🔎
Religious systems and groups 🔎
Secret societies 🔎
Social welfare organizations 🔎
Societal associations 🔎
Societal institutions 🔎
Sports associations 🔎
Student organizations 🔎
Trade unions 🔎
Women's organizations 🔎
Youth organizations 🔎

S.08.09 Economic institutions/Enterprises

Banks 🔎
Central banks 🔎
Chambers of commerce and industry 🔎
Company branch offices 🔎
Competition regulation agencies 🔎
Confederations 🔎
Confederations of industries/trades 🔎
Customs and excise administration 🔎
Development banks 🔎
Economic institutions 🔎
Employers associations 🔎
Enterprises 🔎
Financial institutions 🔎
Foreign and development aid agencies 🔎
Foreign enterprises 🔎
Groups of companies 🔎
Handicraft enterprises 🔎
Holding companies 🔎
Industrial enterprises 🔎
Insurance companies 🔎
Multinational enterprises 🔎
National development banks 🔎
Professional associations 🔎
Specialists associations 🔎
Stock exchanges 🔎
Subsidiaries 🔎
Trade unions 🔎
Trading companies 🔎
Umbrella organizations/national confederations 🔎

S.08.10 Institutions of jurisdiction/Judiciary

Administrative tribunals 🔎
Arbitration courts/arbitrating bodies 🔎
Civil courts 🔎
Courts of appeal 🔎
Courts of cassation 🔎
Courts of justice 🔎
Criminal courts 🔎
Human rights courts 🔎
International arbitration courts 🔎
International criminal tribunals 🔎
International law courts 🔎
Regional international courts 🔎
Special courts 🔎
Supreme courts 🔎

S.08.11 Educational institutions

Adult education establishments 🔎
Defence colleges 🔎
Educational and training establishments 🔎
Further professional/vocational training establishments 🔎
General schools 🔎
International schools 🔎
Language schools 🔎
Military education/training establishments 🔎
Officers schools (armed services) 🔎
Primary schools 🔎
Private education establishments 🔎
Professional/vocational schools (sandwich courses) 🔎
Schools 🔎
Schools abroad 🔎
Secondary schools 🔎
Special schools 🔎
Universities 🔎
University institutes 🔎
University research units 🔎
Vocational schools 🔎
Vocational training enterprises 🔎
Vocational training establishments 🔎

S.08.12 Institutions of the mass media

Advertising agencies 🔎
Broadcasting corporation governing bodies 🔎
Broadcasting corporations 🔎
Editorial boards/departments 🔎
Mass media institutions 🔎
News agencies 🔎
Public broadcasting corporations 🔎
Publishing houses/industry 🔎

S.09 - Natural catastrophes/Technical accidents ↑ top

Accidents 🔎
Catastrophes 🔎
Cyclones 🔎
Drought 🔎
Earthquakes 🔎
Ecological catastrophes 🔎
Events (non-organized) 🔎
Fire 🔎
Flooding 🔎
Natural catastrophes 🔎
Natural occurrences 🔎
Nuclear incidents/accidents 🔎
Reactor incidents/accidents 🔎
Tidal waves 🔎
Traffic accidents 🔎
Volcanic eruptions 🔎

S.10 - Events (organised) ↑ top

Academic and research conferences/meetings 🔎
Agenda 🔎
Anniversaries 🔎
Arms control conferences 🔎
By-elections 🔎
Church conventions 🔎
Commemoration days 🔎
Committee meetings 🔎
Conference programmes 🔎
Conferences/meetings 🔎
Cultural events 🔎
Discussion meetings 🔎
Economic conferences 🔎
Elections/voting 🔎
Events (organized) 🔎
Exhibitions 🔎
Festivals 🔎
Foreign ministers meetings 🔎
Human rights conferences 🔎
International aid conferences 🔎
International conferences of ministers 🔎
International conferences/meetings 🔎
International economic conferences 🔎
International environmental conferences 🔎
International governmental conferences 🔎
International law conferences 🔎
International nongovernmental conferences 🔎
International security conferences 🔎
Lessons/classes 🔎
Local elections 🔎
National elections 🔎
Participants in organized events 🔎
Party congresses/conferences 🔎
Party meetings 🔎
Public meetings 🔎
Regional elections 🔎
Sessions (period) 🔎
Specialists conferences 🔎
Sporting events 🔎
Summit conferences/meetings 🔎

S.11 - Important personalities ↑ top

Important cultural personalities 🔎
Important economic personalities 🔎
Important military personalities 🔎
Important personalities 🔎
Important political personalities 🔎
Important scientific/academic personalities 🔎

S.12 - Time ↑ top

S.12.01 Time, general

Calendar 🔎
Centuries 🔎
Decades 🔎
Duration 🔎
Future 🔎
Millennium 🔎
Moment 🔎
Past 🔎
Present 🔎
Seasons/climatic periods 🔎
Time 🔎
Year 🔎

S.12.02 Historical epochs

Antiquity 🔎
Colonial age 🔎
Historical epochs 🔎
Middle Ages 🔎
Modern times 🔎
Periodization 🔎
Post Cold War Era 🔎

S.13 - Other basic terms ↑ top

Basic concepts 🔎
Basis 🔎
Persons 🔎
Principles 🔎
Qualitative/quality 🔎
Quantitative/quantity 🔎
Space 🔎
Vulnerability 🔎

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