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Abortion debate
The abortion debate covers moral, legal, and political controversy over intentional pregnancy termination via surgery or medication, from Thomson's violinist and Marquis's loss arguments to global opinion, Roe, Dobbs, and WHO safety data.
American exceptionalism
American exceptionalism, also known as US exceptionalism, is the belief that the United States is unlike other countries, rooted in Puritan and Enlightenment ideas and hotly debated by scholars.
American nationalism
American nationalism: the set of civic and ethnic conceptions of US nationhood, from founding-era national character debates through Civil War theorists to modern survey findings that most Americans blend both.
Anti-Zionism
Anti-Zionism: opposition to Zionism and to Israel as a Jewish state. Key disputes: IHRA vs Jerusalem Declaration definitions, historical Jewish anti-Zionism, and evidence that the association with antisemitism is strong but not equivalent.
Colony
Colony: a geopolitical entity created by a foreign polity outside its territory, from Latin colonus (farmer) and colonia (agrarian settlement). Distinguished from imperialism; British pluralist versus French integrative models; most colonies gained independence 1945–1970s.
Flag of China
Flag of China, the Five-star Red Flag (五星红旗): red 3:2 flag with one large and four small yellow stars, designed by Zeng Liansong, adopted 27 September 1949, governed by the National Flag Law of 1990 as amended in 2020.
Flag of Mozambique
Flag of Mozambique, adopted 1 May 1983: green-black-yellow stripes with white fimbriations and a red hoist triangle bearing a star, book, hoe, and AK-47, the only national flag with a modern firearm.
Flag of Quebec
The Flag of Quebec, the fleurdelisé, is a white cross on blue with four white fleurs-de-lis, adopted by order-in-council under Maurice Duplessis on 21 January 1948 from the 1902 Carillon flag of abbé Filiatrault, with proportions 2:3.
Free State Project
The Free State Project (FSP) is a libertarian migration movement founded in 2001 by Jason Sorens, recruiting 20,000 signers to move to New Hampshire (chosen 2003, triggered 2016); over 6,000 have moved, with PorcFest and Liberty Forum as main gatherings.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald (born 1967) is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer who reported the 2013 Snowden NSA leaks for the Guardian, co-founded The Intercept, and resigned from it in 2020.
Greater Serbia
Greater Serbia (Velika Srbija) is a Serbian irredentist concept from Garašanin's 1844 Načertanije, combining medieval-territorial and ethnic-unification claims, pursued through the 1990s Yugoslav Wars and echoed in the post-2020 Serbian world discourse.
Imperialism
Imperialism: the policy of extending a state's rule over foreign societies to build or maintain an empire, by territorial acquisition or economic and political control. Also called the Hobson-Lenin theory in its classical economic form; peaked in the late 19th-century division of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
Individualism
Individualism: a moral and political outlook centering the moral worth and autonomy of the individual, Hofstede's individualism-collectivism cultural dimension, and methodological individualism in social science.
Irish nationalism
Irish nationalism: political tradition seeking Irish self-government, from the United Irishmen (1791) and O'Connell's repeal campaign through Fenianism, Home Rule and partition to Sinn Féin's 2024 First Ministership and current unity polling.
Irredentism
Irredentism is the advocacy that a state annex territory of another country on ethnic, cultural, or historical grounds, with Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea a leading example.
Jack Herer
Jack Herer (1939-2010), American hemp and cannabis activist, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, co-founder of HEMP, backer of California Proposition 215, and namesake of the Sensi Seeds Jack Herer strain.
Mother Jones (magazine)
Mother Jones is a nonprofit, reader-supported American investigative news magazine founded in 1976 in San Francisco, named for labor activist Mary Harris Jones, published by the Foundation for National Progress and produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Nationalism
Nationalism: political ideology treating the nation as the primary source of identity and legitimacy, claiming self-determination, typically statehood. Key ideas: Anderson's imagined communities and print capitalism, Kohn's civic/ethnic dichotomy, primordialist versus modernist origins debates.
Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is a movement for the unity and liberation of Africa and people of African descent worldwide, dating from the 1900 London conference, the 1919–1945 congresses, and the OAU and African Union.
Pan-Islamism
Pan-Islamism (Ittihad-i Islam, al-Wahda al-Islamiyya) is the ideology of uniting all Muslims politically, coined as "Pan-Islam" by Vambéry in 1878, an imperial ideology under Abdülhamid II, revived after 1979, and institutionalized in the OIC.
Pan-Slavism
Pan-Slavism, a 19th-century cultural and political movement for unity of the Slavic peoples, coined by Ján Herkel in 1826, shaped by Kollár and Šafářík, later dominated by Russian imperial aims, revived by Soviet propaganda, and resurgent in contemporary Russian politics.
Regionalism (politics)
Regionalism, also known as political regionalism, is the striving of a territorially distinct region for greater self-responsibility and self-government, often voiced through regional protest movements.
Republic of New Afrika
Republic of New Afrika (RNA), also spelled Republic of New Africa: Black nationalist organization founded in Detroit in March 1968 that declared independence from the United States, claimed five Southern states, demanded reparations, and faced COINTELPRO repression.
Romantic nationalism
Romantic nationalism, also called organic nationalism, exalts the nation as inspiration for art and uses that art to awaken political awareness, shaping Europe between 1800 and 1850.
Separatism
Separatism: advocacy by a territorially defined group for withdrawal from its state, from autonomy demands to secession. About half of civil wars since 1945 involved secessionism; settlements usually take the form of autonomy, as in Aceh.
State nationalism
State nationalism is top-down nationalism promoted by an existing state to make all legal citizens, whatever their ethnicity, share one national identity. Also called official or state-building nationalism; contrasts with ethnic nationalism and the state-nation accommodation model.
Synarchism
Synarchism (sinarquismo): Mexican Catholic nationalist movement whose Unión Nacional Sinarquista, founded May 1937 in León, Guanajuato, opposed postrevolutionary anticlericalism; its fascist classification remains debated.
Waves of ideological change
A wave of ideological change is a clustered, transnational period in which one ideology spreads across many countries at once, driven by great-power shocks through coercion, inducement, and emulation.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky (זאב ז'בוטינסקי)
Ze'ev Jabotinsky (זאב ז'בוטינסקי), born Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940), was a Zionist leader, author, and founder of Revisionist Zionism and the Betar movement, co-founding the Jewish Legion in the First World War.
Zionism (ציונות)
Zionism (ציונות) is the late 19th-century Jewish nationalist movement seeking a homeland in the Land of Israel, founded politically by Theodor Herzl, organized at Basel, and culminating in Israel's 1948 statehood.