Definitions for regime change
regime change

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1. regime changenoun

   An overthrow of a government that is considered an illegitimate regime by external force (especially military might), and its replacement with a new government according to the concept of political legitimacy promoted by that force.

2. Etymology: Widely believed to be coined by U.S. President Bill Clinton and popularized by his Presidential successor George W. Bush in reference to the regime of Saddam Hussein. Use of the term dates back to 1925.

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1. Regime change

   Regime change is the partly forcible or coercive replacement of one government regime with another. Regime change may replace all or part of the state's most critical leadership system, administrative apparatus, or bureaucracy. Regime change may occur through domestic processes, such as revolution, coup, or reconstruction of government following state failure or civil war. It can also be imposed on a country by foreign actors through invasion, overt or covert interventions, or coercive diplomacy. Regime change may entail the construction of new institutions, the restoration of old institutions, and the promotion of new ideologies.According to a dataset by Alexander Downes, 120 leaders were removed through foreign-imposed regime change between 1816 and 2011.

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1. Regime change

   "Regime change" is the replacement of one regime with another. Use of the term dates to at least 1925. Regime change can occur through conquest by a foreign power, revolution, coup d'état or reconstruction following the failure of a state. Regime change may replace all or part of the state's existing institutions, administrative apparatus, bureaucracy and other elements.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of regime change in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of regime change in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of regime change in a Sentence

1. United States:

   The draft submitted by the United States delegation was written for regime change disguised as care for people. We've seen all of this already vis a vis Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan.

2. United States:

   The United States endorsement is politically important, symbolically important, but in order to see a regime change, there are some things lacking, over the years President Nicolas Maduro's been very clever about co-opting their support, sharing economic benefits with them -- the military now has an oil services company.

3. Maryam Rajavi:

   The United States and the international community must respect the desire of the Iranian people for regime change and recognize this right.

4. Rex Tillerson:

   We do not seek regime change in North Korea, we're not seeking a collapse of the regime.

5. British Foreign Secretary:

   This is not about regime change … This is not about trying to turn the tide of the conflict in Syria, there is no proposal on the table at the moment for further attacks because so far thank heavens the Assad regime have not been so foolish as to launch another chemical weapons attack.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Regime_Change
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regime_Change
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=regime change