antistate
- adjective
- /ˌæntiˈsteɪt/
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antigubernamental
- The antistate protests in the capital highlighted deep dissatisfaction with the current government policies.
- antistate actors
Examples
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An important objective of the global antiterrorism campaign is to keep nuclear weapons and nuclear explosive material out of the hands of antistate actors such as terrorist organizations, rogue regimes, and violent subnational groups.
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Antistate actors such as al-Qaeda, on the other hand, do not accept the legitimacy of the international system based on nation-states.
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Nuclear war between India and Pakistan would not only signal the failure of nuclear deterrence, but it would also mean the victory of antistate actors.
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In sum, the ACLU successfully crafted a negative, antistate, and individual speech right that the Court took up.
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Both Pakistan and India claim to have maintained tighter controls over their arsenal; it is not in their own interests to see antistate actors gaining control of nuclear technology.
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Table 2 shows that there exists a wide gulf between the perspectives and interests of state and antistate actors, and this, in turn, makes Indian-Pakistani nuclear deterrence highly unstable.
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Although one can be confident in India and Pakistan's respective capacity to maintain stable nuclear deterrence, the challenge posed by antistate actors falls into an entirely different category and should be a matter of concern to all.
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The September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. mainland have transformed calculations about the threats posed by nonstate actors, especially those who are largely inspired by a global, antistate ideology such as al-Qaeda's pan-Islamist vision.
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The paper outlines the conditions of stable nuclear deterrence and examines the presence or absence of those conditions by highlighting the growing gulf between the state-centric perspective and the perspective of antistate actors, which makes nuclear deterrence highly unstable in South Asia.
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The preceding analysis of the perspectives of antistate actors shows that deterrence in South Asia may not work in the context of asymmetric and unrestricted warfare based on surprise, shock, and deception, waged by those who have little or nothing to lose, particularly when suicide is used as a weapon.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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Not supporting a government or its policies
Not supporting strong government control
Not accepting strict control by people in charge
Opposed to people and groups in power
Against people in power and the usual way society is run
How Opposed
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Antistate is made of the parts anti- and state, where anti- means 'against', like in antibiotic, and state means 'government'. So antistate describes ideas or actions that are 'against' the power or rules of the government.