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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- S.13 - Other basic terms ↑ top