accession (en)

a coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy

ad libitum (la)

"at one's pleasure"; more formal term for ad-lib

Ariadne’s thread (en)

(from Greek mythology) the solving of a problem with multiple apparent means of proceeding through an exhaustive application of logic to all available routes

beneficence (en)

the doing of good; active goodness or kindness; charity

Bundesrepublik (de)

from Bundesrepublik Deutschland, which was used during the Cold War to refer to West Germany

clientelist (en)

relating to clientism (a social order which depends on relations of patronage)

common pool (en)

a type of good consisting of a resource system for which it's hard but not impossible to restrict (e.g. an irrigation system or fishing grounds); differs from pure public goods in that they face problems of congestion or overuse, because they are subtractable; consists of a core resource (e.g., water or fish) which defines the stock variable, while providing a limited quantity of extractable fringe units, which defines the flow variable

discursive (en)

(adj) digressing from subject to subject

ecclesia militans (la)

means Church Militant; a branch of the Christian Church which consists of Christians on earth who struggle as soldiers of Christ against sin, the devil, and "the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places"

extra legem (la)

beyond the scope of the law

galloping inflation (en)

defined as inflation of 10% or more

glacis (en)

a bank sloping down from a fort which exposes attackers to the defenders' missiles

hegemonic re-education (en)

related to "cultural hegemony" in Marxist philosophy (when the ruling class imposes their own worldview on the culture of a society)

Historic Compromise (en)

a historical Italian political alliance between the Christian Democrats and the Italian Communist Party in the 1970s

ideational (en)

of, relating to, or produced by ideation; broadly: consisting of or referring to ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses

in prospect (en)

anticipated, expected

Kleinstaaterei (de)

a pejorative word mainly used to denote the territorial fragmentation in Germany and neighboring regions during the Holy Roman Empire

Länder (de)

word for land/countries, plural

Maastricht Stability and Growth Pact (en)

an agreement, among the 28 Member states of the European Union, to facilitate and maintain the stability of the Economic and Monetary Union; its two regulations went into force in 98-99

mediatization (en)

the theory that argues that the media shapes and frames the processes and discourse of political communication as well as the society in which that communication takes place

neonationalist (en)

a type of nationalism that rose in the mid-2010s, especially in Western Europe and North America; commonly associated with right-wing populism, anti-globalisation, nativism, protectionism, opposition to immigration, and euroscepticism

pettifogging (en)

(adj) placing undue emphasis on petty details; petty or trivial

polity (en)

(noun) a form or process of civil government or constitution; OR an organized society; a state as a political entity

post hoc (en)

occurring or done after the event, especially with reference to the fallacious assumption that the occurrence in question has a logical relationship with the event it follows

propinquity (en)

the state of being close to someone or something; proximity