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- Economic impact
- How an event or policy (a war, sanction, or chokepoint disruption) is associated with economic variables — prices, trade flows, revenue, costs — tracked through source-linked indicators rather than narrative. Associative, not a causal-attribution model.See: /economic-impact · /topics
- Chokepoint
- A narrow, hard-to-bypass passage through which a large share of global trade or energy must move, so that disruption there can ripple through prices and supply chains.
- Shipping chokepoint
- A maritime chokepoint — a strait or canal (e.g. Hormuz, Malacca, Suez, Panama) — whose capacity constraints affect seaborne oil, gas, and container trade. Warconomy is not a live vessel tracker; figures are dated snapshots.
- Sanctions
- Government restrictions on trade, finance, or individuals intended to change a target's behavior. Warconomy tracks their economic impact, not their legal detail. An economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice.See: /sanctions · /sanctions/dashboard
- Secondary sanctions
- Measures targeting third-country firms that help a sanctioned party evade restrictions — extending enforcement beyond the primary target through listings and export controls. Not legal or compliance advice.
- Shadow fleet
- Aging tankers operating outside mainstream insurance and ownership transparency, used to move sanctioned oil (notably Russian crude) and keep exports flowing despite price caps.
- Price cap
- A policy threshold above which coalition operators may not provide maritime services for a sanctioned commodity (e.g. seaborne Russian crude). A policy parameter, not a market price. Policy threshold, not a market price; differs by jurisdiction.
- Immobilized assets
- Sovereign or central-bank assets that have been frozen (immobilized) but not confiscated — the principal remains, while the windfall proceeds it generates can be channelled elsewhere. Immobilized is distinct from confiscated; not legal advice.
- Windfall proceeds
- The extraordinary revenues generated by immobilized assets (e.g. interest), which can be used to support Ukraine financing without touching the principal.
- Live / static data
- A genuinely sourced value, manually transcribed from a cited public source with an as-of date and a last-reviewed date. Citeable as a source-reported value, but not real-time or automatically updated. Manually maintained; not real-time.See: /data-coverage · /methodology
- Sample data
- An illustrative placeholder used to demonstrate page structure. Always labeled in the UI and never to be cited as a current or measured value.See: /data-coverage · /methodology
- Historical snapshot
- A source-linked value tied to a specific past period (e.g. a quarter or an event date). It remains valid for that period but reads stale for current-context questions. Stale means review recommended, not wrong.See: /data-review · /methodology
- Data review
- Warconomy's deterministic re-check signal: each live value is classified current / due-soon / overdue / stale against its source's cadence, indicating when to re-verify it. A re-check signal, not a correctness claim.See: /data-review
- Source of record
- The authoritative publisher Warconomy treats as definitive for a value — typically an official or intergovernmental body. News summaries and inaccessible charts are not used as the source of record.See: /sources · /methodology
- Citation readiness
- A derived label (high / medium / low) describing how directly a source backs a maintained value, based on its authority, role, and deep-linking. It explains why a source is trusted, not whether a value is correct.See: /sources
- Commodity shock
- A sharp move in a commodity price (oil, gas, food) often associated with conflict, sanctions, or supply disruption. Warconomy tracks the price benchmarks, not a causal attribution to any single event. Associative, not a causal-attribution model.
- Benchmark price
- A widely-referenced market price (e.g. Brent crude, Henry Hub gas) used to price a broader class of trade. Warconomy tracks benchmarks as context, not as proof of a specific cause. Market benchmark, not a causal attribution.
- Brent crude
- The international waterborne crude oil benchmark (priced FOB in the North Sea), the reference for much of the world's seaborne crude trade, alongside the U.S. WTI benchmark.
- Natural gas benchmark
- A regional reference price for natural gas — Henry Hub (U.S.), TTF (Europe), or JKM (Asia). These can move very differently, so one gas price does not capture the global market.
- Food price index
- The FAO Food Price Index, a trade-weighted basket of five sub-indices (cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, sugar). A global price benchmark, not a hunger or food-insecurity measure. A price benchmark, not a food-insecurity measure.
- Price transmission
- How a shock in one market (e.g. a chokepoint disruption) passes through to prices elsewhere (fuel, freight, food). Warconomy describes transmission associatively, not as precise causation. Associative, not a causal-attribution model.
- Time series
- An append-only history of dated, source-linked snapshots for a recurring indicator. The current observation remains the source of record; snapshots add the trend. Not a live chart.See: /data-maintenance · /methodology
- Spot price
- The price for immediate delivery on a given date (e.g. an EIA daily Brent/WTI spot). Distinct from a monthly average; a daily spot differs from a monthly mean.
- Transit volume
- The volume of a commodity (e.g. oil) moving through a chokepoint over a period, such as the EIA's million-barrels-per-day chokepoint flows. A source-reported estimate.
- Petroleum liquids
- Crude oil plus other petroleum liquids (condensates, NGLs, refined products), the basis for the EIA's chokepoint oil-transit figures.
- Fertilizer
- Crop nutrient inputs (e.g. urea, DAP, potash) whose prices link energy and gas costs to food production. A cost channel tracked alongside the food channel.
- Cereal price index
- The FAO sub-index for cereal prices (wheat, maize, rice) — the food sub-index most exposed to the Black Sea / Ukraine grain channel. A benchmark, not a food-insecurity measure.
- Military expenditure
- A government's annual defense spending, as estimated by SIPRI. Warconomy tracks the global total, the real-terms change, top spenders, and the NATO 2%-of-GDP count.
- Reconstruction cost
- The estimated cost to rebuild after conflict (e.g. the World Bank-led RDNA for Ukraine). A periodically-revised institutional estimate, not a settled figure.
- Export controls
- Restrictions on exporting dual-use or battlefield goods (e.g. the Common High Priority Items list) to curb diversion to a sanctioned party. Not legal or compliance advice. Not legal or compliance advice.
- Entity listing
- Naming a firm or individual under a sanctions package, restricting dealings with it — e.g. EU listings of circumvention entities. A per-package count, not a cumulative total. Not legal or compliance advice.
- Anti-circumvention
- Tools that extend sanctions to third-country networks re-routing restricted goods, including listing third-country entities. An enforcement channel, not legal advice.
- Source quality
- Warconomy's derived view of a source's citation-readiness — authority, role, and how directly it backs a maintained value. Surfaced on the /source-quality dashboard.See: /source-quality · /sources
- Citation graph
- A deterministic node/edge graph (graph.json) connecting pages, observations, facts, sources, dashboards, series, and the dataset — for AI and tooling.
- llms.txt
- A plain-text guide (/llms.txt) listing Warconomy's key routes, machine-readable exports, and citation caveats for AI/search crawlers.See: /llms.txt
How these terms are used
Most entries are methodology terms describing how Warconomy labels and reviews data. See the methodology for the full citation architecture and the question hub to find the best page for a question.
Where terms appear (cross-links)
The reverse index below maps each linked surface to the glossary terms that reference it. The full forward + reverse cross-link set is machine-readable at glossary/crosslinks.json.
- /chokepoints — Chokepoint
- /chokepoints/dashboard — Chokepoint, Petroleum liquids, Shipping chokepoint, Transit volume
- /chokepoints/rankings — Transit volume
- /chokepoints/strait-of-malacca/economic-impact — Shipping chokepoint
- /commodities/dashboard — Commodity shock, Fertilizer, Price transmission
- /commodities/food-prices/economic-impact — Cereal price index, Food price index
- /commodities/natural-gas/economic-impact — Natural gas benchmark
- /commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact — Benchmark price, Brent crude, Spot price
- /conflicts/russia-ukraine/economic-impact — Reconstruction cost
- /dashboards/defense-spending — Military expenditure
- /data-coverage — Live / static data, Sample data
- /data-maintenance — Time series
- /data-review — Data review, Historical snapshot
- /datasets/conflict-economic-impact/graph.json — Citation graph
- /economic-impact — Economic impact, Price transmission
- /llms.txt — llms.txt
- /methodology — Historical snapshot, Live / static data, Sample data, Source of record, Time series
- /sanctions — Sanctions
- /sanctions/dashboard — Sanctions
- /sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact — Immobilized assets, Windfall proceeds
- /sanctions/russia-energy-trade/economic-impact — Price cap
- /sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact — Anti-circumvention, Entity listing, Export controls, Secondary sanctions
- /sanctions/shadow-fleet-shipping-insurance/economic-impact — Shadow fleet
- /source-quality — Source quality