{ "name": "Warconomy glossary", "asOf": "2026-06-05", "count": 35, "searchFields": [ "name", "definition", "category", "linkedPageCount" ], "discovery": { "path": "/glossary", "jsonPath": "/glossary/data.json", "filterParams": [ "q", "category", "links", "sort", "dir" ], "searchableFields": [ "name", "definition", "category" ], "defaultSort": { "key": "name", "dir": "asc" }, "availableSorts": [ { "key": "name", "label": "Term (A–Z)", "type": "text" }, { "key": "links", "label": "Linked pages", "type": "number" } ] }, "filters": { "category": [ "chokepoints", "commodities", "conflicts", "methodology", "sanctions" ], "linkedPageCount": [ "1", "2" ] }, "terms": [ { "slug": "economic-impact", "name": "Economic impact", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Associative, not a causal-attribution model.", "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#economic-impact", "relatedPaths": [ "/economic-impact", "/topics" ] }, { "slug": "chokepoint", "name": "Chokepoint", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "chokepoints", "categoryLabel": "Chokepoints", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#chokepoint", "relatedPaths": [ "/chokepoints", "/chokepoints/dashboard" ] }, { "slug": "shipping-chokepoint", "name": "Shipping chokepoint", "definition": "A maritime chokepoint — a strait or canal (e.g. Hormuz, Malacca, Suez, Panama) — whose capacity constraints affect seaborne oil, gas, and container trade.", "caveat": "Warconomy is not a live vessel tracker; figures are dated snapshots.", "category": "chokepoints", "categoryLabel": "Chokepoints", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#shipping-chokepoint", "relatedPaths": [ "/chokepoints/dashboard", "/chokepoints/strait-of-malacca/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "sanctions", "name": "Sanctions", "definition": "Government restrictions on trade, finance, or individuals intended to change a target's behavior. Warconomy tracks their economic impact, not their legal detail.", "caveat": "An economic-impact reference, not legal or compliance advice.", "category": "sanctions", "categoryLabel": "Sanctions", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#sanctions", "relatedPaths": [ "/sanctions", "/sanctions/dashboard" ] }, { "slug": "secondary-sanctions", "name": "Secondary sanctions", "definition": "Measures targeting third-country firms that help a sanctioned party evade restrictions — extending enforcement beyond the primary target through listings and export controls.", "caveat": "Not legal or compliance advice.", "category": "sanctions", "categoryLabel": "Sanctions", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#secondary-sanctions", "relatedPaths": [ "/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "shadow-fleet", "name": "Shadow fleet", "definition": "Aging tankers operating outside mainstream insurance and ownership transparency, used to move sanctioned oil (notably Russian crude) and keep exports flowing despite price caps.", "caveat": null, "category": "sanctions", "categoryLabel": "Sanctions", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#shadow-fleet", "relatedPaths": [ "/sanctions/shadow-fleet-shipping-insurance/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "price-cap", "name": "Price cap", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Policy threshold, not a market price; differs by jurisdiction.", "category": "sanctions", "categoryLabel": "Sanctions", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#price-cap", "relatedPaths": [ "/sanctions/russia-energy-trade/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "immobilized-assets", "name": "Immobilized assets", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Immobilized is distinct from confiscated; not legal advice.", "category": "sanctions", "categoryLabel": "Sanctions", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#immobilized-assets", "relatedPaths": [ "/sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "windfall-proceeds", "name": "Windfall proceeds", "definition": "The extraordinary revenues generated by immobilized assets (e.g. interest), which can be used to support Ukraine financing without touching the principal.", "caveat": null, "category": "sanctions", "categoryLabel": "Sanctions", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#windfall-proceeds", "relatedPaths": [ "/sanctions/frozen-russian-assets-ukraine-financing/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "live-static-data", "name": "Live / static data", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Manually maintained; not real-time.", "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#live-static-data", "relatedPaths": [ "/data-coverage", "/methodology" ] }, { "slug": "sample-data", "name": "Sample data", "definition": "An illustrative placeholder used to demonstrate page structure. Always labeled in the UI and never to be cited as a current or measured value.", "caveat": null, "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#sample-data", "relatedPaths": [ "/data-coverage", "/methodology" ] }, { "slug": "historical-snapshot", "name": "Historical snapshot", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Stale means review recommended, not wrong.", "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#historical-snapshot", "relatedPaths": [ "/data-review", "/methodology" ] }, { "slug": "data-review", "name": "Data review", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "A re-check signal, not a correctness claim.", "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#data-review", "relatedPaths": [ "/data-review" ] }, { "slug": "source-of-record", "name": "Source of record", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#source-of-record", "relatedPaths": [ "/sources", "/methodology" ] }, { "slug": "citation-readiness", "name": "Citation readiness", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#citation-readiness", "relatedPaths": [ "/sources" ] }, { "slug": "commodity-shock", "name": "Commodity shock", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Associative, not a causal-attribution model.", "category": "commodities", "categoryLabel": "Commodities", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#commodity-shock", "relatedPaths": [ "/commodities/dashboard" ] }, { "slug": "benchmark-price", "name": "Benchmark price", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Market benchmark, not a causal attribution.", "category": "commodities", "categoryLabel": "Commodities", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#benchmark-price", "relatedPaths": [ "/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "brent-crude", "name": "Brent crude", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "commodities", "categoryLabel": "Commodities", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#brent-crude", "relatedPaths": [ "/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "natural-gas-benchmark", "name": "Natural gas benchmark", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "commodities", "categoryLabel": "Commodities", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#natural-gas-benchmark", "relatedPaths": [ "/commodities/natural-gas/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "food-price-index", "name": "Food price index", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "A price benchmark, not a food-insecurity measure.", "category": "commodities", "categoryLabel": "Commodities", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#food-price-index", "relatedPaths": [ "/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "price-transmission", "name": "Price transmission", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Associative, not a causal-attribution model.", "category": "commodities", "categoryLabel": "Commodities", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#price-transmission", "relatedPaths": [ "/commodities/dashboard", "/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "time-series", "name": "Time series", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#time-series", "relatedPaths": [ "/data-maintenance", "/methodology" ] }, { "slug": "spot-price", "name": "Spot price", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "commodities", "categoryLabel": "Commodities", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#spot-price", "relatedPaths": [ "/commodities/oil-benchmarks/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "transit-volume", "name": "Transit volume", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "chokepoints", "categoryLabel": "Chokepoints", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#transit-volume", "relatedPaths": [ "/chokepoints/dashboard", "/chokepoints/rankings" ] }, { "slug": "petroleum-liquids", "name": "Petroleum liquids", "definition": "Crude oil plus other petroleum liquids (condensates, NGLs, refined products), the basis for the EIA's chokepoint oil-transit figures.", "caveat": null, "category": "chokepoints", "categoryLabel": "Chokepoints", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#petroleum-liquids", "relatedPaths": [ "/chokepoints/dashboard" ] }, { "slug": "fertilizer", "name": "Fertilizer", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "commodities", "categoryLabel": "Commodities", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#fertilizer", "relatedPaths": [ "/commodities/dashboard" ] }, { "slug": "cereal-price-index", "name": "Cereal price index", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "commodities", "categoryLabel": "Commodities", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#cereal-price-index", "relatedPaths": [ "/commodities/food-prices/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "military-expenditure", "name": "Military expenditure", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#military-expenditure", "relatedPaths": [ "/dashboards/defense-spending" ] }, { "slug": "reconstruction-cost", "name": "Reconstruction cost", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "conflicts", "categoryLabel": "Conflicts", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#reconstruction-cost", "relatedPaths": [ "/conflicts/russia-ukraine/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "export-controls", "name": "Export controls", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Not legal or compliance advice.", "category": "sanctions", "categoryLabel": "Sanctions", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#export-controls", "relatedPaths": [ "/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "entity-list", "name": "Entity listing", "definition": "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.", "caveat": "Not legal or compliance advice.", "category": "sanctions", "categoryLabel": "Sanctions", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#entity-list", "relatedPaths": [ "/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "anti-circumvention", "name": "Anti-circumvention", "definition": "Tools that extend sanctions to third-country networks re-routing restricted goods, including listing third-country entities. An enforcement channel, not legal advice.", "caveat": null, "category": "sanctions", "categoryLabel": "Sanctions", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#anti-circumvention", "relatedPaths": [ "/sanctions/secondary-sanctions-circumvention/economic-impact" ] }, { "slug": "source-quality", "name": "Source quality", "definition": "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.", "caveat": null, "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 2, "path": "/glossary#source-quality", "relatedPaths": [ "/source-quality", "/sources" ] }, { "slug": "citation-graph", "name": "Citation graph", "definition": "A deterministic node/edge graph (graph.json) connecting pages, observations, facts, sources, dashboards, series, and the dataset — for AI and tooling.", "caveat": null, "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#citation-graph", "relatedPaths": [ "/datasets/conflict-economic-impact/graph.json" ] }, { "slug": "llms-txt", "name": "llms.txt", "definition": "A plain-text guide (/llms.txt) listing Warconomy's key routes, machine-readable exports, and citation caveats for AI/search crawlers.", "caveat": null, "category": "methodology", "categoryLabel": "Methodology & data", "linkedPageCount": 1, "path": "/glossary#llms-txt", "relatedPaths": [ "/llms.txt" ] } ] }