regime change

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Source required for "widely believed": who?”) Widely believed to have been 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.

Noun

regime change (countable and uncountable, plural regime changes)

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

   Coordinate term: colour revolution

Synonyms

• (in American strategic language): rollback

Antonyms

• containment
• détente

Translations

overthrow of a government

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: تَغْيِير اَلْنِظَام (taḡyīr al-niẓām)
• Armenian: իշխանափոխություն (hy) (išxanapʻoxutʻyun)
• Belarusian: змена рэжыму (zmjena režymu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政權更迭／政权更迭 (zhèngquán gēngdié), 政權交替／政权交替 (zhèngquán jiāotì), 政權更換／政权更换 (zhèngquán gēnghuàn), 政權變動／政权变动 (zhèngquán biàndòng)

• Danish: regimeskifte n
• Dutch: regimeverandering f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: regiimin vaihto
• French: changement de régime m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Regimewechsel (de) m, Regimeänderung f
• Greek: αλλαγή καθεστώτος f (allagí kathestótos)
• Hindi: शासन में परिवर्तन m (śāsan mẽ parivartan)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: cambiamento di regime m
• Japanese: 政体の変更 (seitai no henkō)
• Korean: 정권교체 (jeonggwon'gyoche) (refers to any change in administration, whether peaceful, violent, etc.)
• Persian: تغییر رژیم (tağyir-e režim), رژیم چنج (režim čenj)
• Polish: transformacja ustrojowa f
• Portuguese: mudança de regime f
• Romanian: schimbare de regim f
• Russian: сме́на режи́ма f (sména režíma)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: cambio de régimen m
• Swedish: regimskifte (sv) n
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: việc lật đổ chế độ, sự thay đổi chế độ