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72 relations: Adjective, Affair, Attractor, Bank run, Case study, Chinese word for "crisis", Combat, Community, Constitutional crisis, Coping (psychology), Coup d'état, Crisis management, Crisis theory, Crysis, Currency crisis, Decision-making, Disaster, Distress signal, Earthquake, Ecological crisis, Economic crisis of Cameroon, Economy, Ecosystem, Emergency management, Energy crisis, Environmental policy, Evolutionarily significant unit, Exercise, Extinction, Financial crisis, Fragile state, Greek language, Hazard, Hostage, Inclusive Democracy, Individual, International crisis, International Crisis Behavior Project, International relations, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Karl Marx, Konrad Jarausch, Landslide, List of natural disasters by death toll, Mayday, Meditation, Mexican peso crisis, Midlife crisis, Nation state, ..., Natural disaster, Politics, Probability, Recession, Revolution, Security, Simultaneity, Sleep, Social group, Social rejection, Society, SOS, South American economic crisis of 2002, Species, Takis Fotopoulos, Thought, Threat, Types of volcanic eruptions, Vulnerability, War, Warning system, 1998–2002 Argentine great depression. Expand index (22 more) »
Adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated) is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.
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Affair
An affair is a sexual relationship, romantic friendship, or passionate attachment between two people without the attached person's significant other knowing.
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Attractor
In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of numerical values toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system.
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Bank run
A bank run (also known as a run on the bank) occurs when a large number of people withdraw their money from a bank, because they believe the bank may cease to function in the near future.
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Case study
In the social sciences and life sciences, a case study is a research method involving an up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of a subject of study (the case), as well as its related contextual conditions.
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Chinese word for "crisis"
The Chinese word for "crisis" is frequently invoked in Western motivational speaking as being composed of two Chinese characters respectively signifying "danger" and "opportunity".
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Combat
Combat (French for fight) is a purposeful violent conflict meant to weaken, establish dominance over, or kill the opposition, or to drive the opposition away from a location where it is not wanted or needed.
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Community
A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity.
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Constitutional crisis
In political science, a constitutional crisis is a problem or conflict in the function of a government that the political constitution or other fundamental governing law is perceived to be unable to resolve.
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Coping (psychology)
Coping is the conscious effort to reduce stress.
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Coup d'état
A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe de estado, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.
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Crisis management
Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders.
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Crisis theory
Crisis theory, concerning the causes and consequences of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall in a capitalist system, is now generally associated with Marxian economics.
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Crysis
Crysis is a first-person shooter video game series developed by German developer Crytek and published by Electronic Arts.
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Currency crisis
A currency crisis is a situation in which serious doubt exists as to whether a country's central bank has sufficient foreign exchange reserves to maintain the country's fixed exchange rate.
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Decision-making
In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several alternative possibilities.
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Disaster
A disaster is a serious disruption, occurring over a relatively short time, of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
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Distress signal
A distress signal or distress call is an internationally recognized means for obtaining help.
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Earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
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Ecological crisis
An ecological crisis occurs when changes to the environment of a species or population destabilizes its continued survival.
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Economic crisis of Cameroon
The Cameroonian economic crisis was a downturn in the economy of Cameroon from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s.
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Economy
An economy (from Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water, and mineral soil.
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Emergency management
Emergency management or disaster management is the organization and management of the resources and responsibilities for dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies (preparedness, response, and recovery).
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Energy crisis
An energy crisis is any significant bottleneck in the supply of energy resources to an economy.
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Environmental policy
Environmental policy is the commitment of an organization to the laws, regulations, and other policy mechanisms concerning environmental issues.
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Evolutionarily significant unit
An evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) is a population of organisms that is considered distinct for purposes of conservation.
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Exercise
Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Financial crisis
A financial crisis is any of a broad variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value.
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Fragile state
A fragile state is a low-income country characterized by weak state capacity and/or weak state legitimacy leaving citizens vulnerable to a range of shocks.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Hazard
A hazard is an agent which has the potential to cause harm to a vulnerable target.
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Hostage
A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war.
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Inclusive Democracy
Inclusive Democracy (ID) is a project that aims for direct democracy; economic democracy in a stateless, moneyless and marketless economy; self-management (democracy in the social realm); and ecological democracy.
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Individual
An individual is that which exists as a distinct entity.
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International crisis
The term international crisis is widespread term without a single common definition.
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International Crisis Behavior Project
The International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project is a project that collates interstate crisis data from 1918 (the end of World War I) onward to a few years ago (currently till 2013).
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International relations
International relations (IR) or international affairs (IA) — commonly also referred to as international studies (IS) or global studies (GS) — is the study of interconnectedness of politics, economics and law on a global level.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
The Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (JCCM) is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal that covers all theoretical and practical aspects relating to crisis management.
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Karl Marx
Karl MarxThe name "Karl Heinrich Marx", used in various lexicons, is based on an error.
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Konrad Jarausch
Konrad H. Jarausch (born 14 Aug 1941 in Magdeburg, Germany) is a noted historian and is the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Landslide
The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.
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List of natural disasters by death toll
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, lots of collateral damage or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings.
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Mayday
Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications.
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Meditation
Meditation can be defined as a practice where an individual uses a technique, such as focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
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Mexican peso crisis
The Mexican peso crisis was a currency crisis sparked by the Mexican government's sudden devaluation of the peso against the U.S. dollar in December 1994, which became one of the first international financial crises ignited by capital flight.
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Midlife crisis
A midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals, typically 45–64 years old.
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Nation state
A nation state (or nation-state), in the most specific sense, is a country where a distinct cultural or ethnic group (a "nation" or "people") inhabits a territory and have formed a state (often a sovereign state) that they predominantly govern.
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Natural disaster
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes.
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Politics
Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
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Probability
Probability is the measure of the likelihood that an event will occur.
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Recession
In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction which results in a general slowdown in economic activity.
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Revolution
In political science, a revolution (Latin: revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolt against the government, typically due to perceived oppression (political, social, economic).
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Security
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces.
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Simultaneity
Simultaneity is the relation between two events assumed to be happening at the same time in a frame of reference.
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Sleep
Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings.
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Social group
In the social sciences, a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
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Social rejection
Social rejection occurs when an individual is deliberately excluded from a social relationship or social interaction.
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
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SOS
is the International Morse code distress signal; the bar over it indicates to omit the normal gaps between the letters.
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South American economic crisis of 2002
The South American economic crisis is the economic disturbances which have developed in 2002 in the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Takis Fotopoulos
Takis Fotopoulos (Τάκης Φωτόπουλος born October 14, 1940) is a political philosopher and economist who founded the Inclusive Democracy movement, aiming at a synthesis of classical democracy with libertarian socialism and the radical currents in the new social movements.
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Thought
Thought encompasses a “goal oriented flow of ideas and associations that leads to reality-oriented conclusion.” Although thinking is an activity of an existential value for humans, there is no consensus as to how it is defined or understood.
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Threat
A threat is a communicated intent to inflict harm or loss on another person.
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Types of volcanic eruptions
Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which lava, tephra (ash, lapilli, volcanic bombs and volcanic blocks), and assorted gases are expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.
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Vulnerability
Vulnerability refers to the inability (of a system or a unit) to withstand the effects of a hostile environment.
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War
War is a state of armed conflict between states, societies and informal groups, such as insurgents and militias.
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Warning system
Warning system is any system of biological or technical nature deployed by an individual or group to inform of a future danger.
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1998–2002 Argentine great depression
The 1998–2002 Argentine Great Depression was an economic depression in Argentina, which began in the third quarter of 1998 and lasted until the second quarter of 2002.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis
