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{{Short description|Attempts to undermine political, military or economic power}}
The word '''destabilisation''' can be applied to a wide variety of contexts such as attempts to undermine political, military or economic power. 

== Psychology ==
In a psychological context, it is used as a technique in brainwashing and [[Social:Abuse|abuse]] to disorient and disarm the victim. 

In the context of [[Social:Workplace bullying|workplace bullying]], destabilisation applied to the victim may involve:<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rayner |first1=Charlotte |last2=Hoel |first2=Helge |last3=Cooper |first3=Cary L. |title=Workplace Bullying: What We Know, Who Is to Blame and What Can We Do? |date=2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=London |isbn=978-0-415-24062-8 |oclc=80758449 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Peyton |first=Pauline Rennie |title=Dignity at Work: Eliminate Bullying and Create a Positive Working Environment |date=2003 |publisher=Brunner-Routledge |location=New York |isbn=978-1-58391-237-9 |oclc=52334801 }}</ref> 

* failure to acknowledge good work and value the victim's efforts
* allocation of meaningless tasks 
* removal of areas of responsibility without consultation 
* repeated reminders of blunders 
* [[Setting up to fail|setting up to fail]]
* [[Moving the goalposts|shifting of goal posts]] without telling the victim
* persistent attempts to demoralise the victim

Destabilisation could also denote the extreme end of [[Philosophy:Disinhibition|disinhibition syndrome]] and entail the complete shutdown of an individual's control of emotions, inhibitions, and productive functioning.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Dysinhibition Syndrome: How to Handle Anger and Rage in Your Child Or Spouse|last=Wood|first=Rose|publisher=Hope Press|year=1999|isbn=1878267086|location=Duarte, CA|pages=5}}</ref> The condition can be episodic or it could last for months or years, requiring professional care from a practitioner who is familiar with the individual's primary neurological disorder.<ref name=":0" />

In psychology, there is also a process called cognitive destabilisation, which involves being open to conversions and transformations of various kinds.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory|url=https://archive.org/details/waywearguenowstu00ande|url-access=limited|last=Anderson|first=Amanda|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2009|isbn=9780691114033|location=Princeton, NJ|pages=[https://archive.org/details/waywearguenowstu00ande/page/n131 119]}}</ref> This could be used to counter political destabilisation by presenting a consensual view of the problem.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Transboundary Risk Governance|url=https://archive.org/details/transboundaryris00lids|url-access=limited|last1=Lidskog|first1=Rolf|last2=Soneryd|first2=Linda|last3=Uggla|first3=Ylva|publisher=Earthscan|year=2010|isbn=9781844077915|location=Sterling, VA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/transboundaryris00lids/page/n28 8]}}</ref>

== Other applications ==
Destabilisation is also used in the feminist context such as the way it is used to change the binary opposition between men and women, particularly how it gives the category 'woman' its meaning.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates|last1=Barrett|first1=Michèle|last2=Phillips|first2=Anne|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=1992|isbn=0804720304|location=Stanford, CA|pages=8|language=en}}</ref> For instance, this is expressed in many feminists' discomfort concerning postmodern theories' challenge to traditional binary oppositions, perceiving it as a subversion of women's attempt to define their own subjecthood.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction|last=Michael|first=Magali Cornier|date=1996|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=0791430162|pages=[https://archive.org/details/feminismpostmode0000mich/page/25 25]|url=https://archive.org/details/feminismpostmode0000mich/page/25}}</ref> The body of literature on feminism also often invoke the need to destabilise modern theory, particularly the theoretical discourses that claim neutrality but are established from a masculine perspective.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates|last1=Barrett|first1=Michèle|last2=Phillips|first2=Anne|date=1992|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=0804720304|location=Stanford, CA|pages=1}}</ref> These attempts to destabilise modern female constructs have been informed by [[Biography:Jacques Derrida|Jacques Derrida]]'s deconstruction theory, particularly the destabilisation of positions and subjects that have been deemed holistic or authoritative.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography|last1=McDowell|first1=Linda|last2=Sharp|first2=Joanne|date=1999|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0340741430|location=Oxon|pages=50}}</ref>

In literature, a conceptualization refers to it as an aggression or a kind of attack on the reader to provoke discomfort.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vwH2M4o0yQAC&q=destabilization+definition&pg=PA141|title=Aggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel|last=Hume|first=Kathryn|date=2011-12-05|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=9780801462887|language=en}}</ref> In [[Finance:International capital structure|international capital]] transactions, it is used to denote as a capital movement driven by erroneous forecast, driving the [[Finance:Exchange rate|exchange rate]] away from equilibrium that would be supported by rational [[Finance:Speculation|speculators]] whose foresight are correct.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iuEkSrQDjEcC&q=destabilization+definition&pg=PT8|title=International Capital Transactions: Should They Be Restricted?|last=Fieleke|first=Mr Norman S.|date=1993-12-01|publisher=International Monetary Fund|isbn=9781455220526|language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
{{columns-list|
* {{Annotated link|Abusive power and control}}
* {{Annotated link|Cognitive distortion}}
* {{Annotated link|Dehumanization}}
* {{Annotated link|Demoralization (warfare)}}
* {{Annotated link|Discrediting tactic}}
* {{Annotated link|Divide and rule}}
* {{Annotated link|Economic terrorism}}
* {{Annotated link|Gaslighting}}
* {{Annotated link|Guilt trip}}
* {{Annotated link|Isolation to facilitate abuse}}
* {{Annotated link|Mental confusion}}
* {{Annotated link|Mind games}}
* {{Annotated link|Passive–aggressive behavior}}
* {{Annotated link|Personal boundaries}}
* {{Annotated link|Playing one person against another}}
* {{Annotated link|Positive disintegration}}
* {{Annotated link|Psychological abuse}}
* {{Annotated link|Silent treatment}}
* {{Annotated link|Social undermining}}
* {{Annotated link|Stabilization (medicine)|Stabilizer}}
* {{Annotated link|Strategy of tension}}
* {{Annotated link|Subversion}}
* {{Annotated link|Thesis, antithesis, synthesis}}
* {{Annotated link|Triangulation (psychology)}}
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==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last=von Beyme |first=Klaus |title=Parliamentary Democracy: Democratization, Destabilization, Reconsolidation 1789-1999 |date=2000 |publisher=Springer |series=Advances in Political Science |isbn=978-0-230-51439-3 |oclc=681925162 }}
* {{cite book |last=Dzimba |first=John |title=South Africa's Destabilization of Zimbabwe, 1980-89 |date=1998 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0-230-37214-6 |doi=10.1057/9780230372146 |oclc=759110485 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Phyllis |last2=Martin |first2=David Lozell |title=Apartheid Terrorism: The Destabilization Report |series=Changing Southern Africa |date=1989 |publisher=Indiana University Press |oclc=750898238 |isbn=978-0-85255-340-4 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Murillo |first1=Mario A. |last2=Avirama |first2=Jesús Rey |title=Colombia and the United States: War, Unrest, and Destabilization |series=Open Media book |date=2004 |location=New York |publisher=Seven Stories Press |oclc=54806694 |isbn=978-1-58322-606-3 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/colombiaunitedst00muri }}
* {{cite book |last=Sen |first=Mohit |title=Challenge of Destabilisation |date=1987 |publisher=News Today |location=Madras |oclc=551397347 }}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Siṅgha |editor-first=Darabāra |title=Destabilisation and Subversion: New Challenges |date=1987 |publisher=Patriot Publishers |location=New Delhi |oclc=18558315 |isbn=978-81-7050-058-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/destabilisations0000unse }}

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