regional crisis
Area-wide serious trouble
A regional crisis is an emergency or destabilizing situation affecting a geographic area—typically multiple countries or a defined territory rather than a single nation or the whole world.
The term appears in news and policy discussions about conflicts, disasters, or humanitarian emergencies: The drought has become a regional crisis affecting five countries.
A regional crisis often implies the potential to spread or escalate beyond its current boundaries.
- conflictOpposition between parties
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- tensionStretched or strained state
- upheavalViolent disturbance of order
- instabilityTendency toward unpredictable change
turmoil · power vacuum · humanitarian · humanitarian corridor · refugees · displacement · border · escalation · military intervention · intervention · no-fly zone · sanctions · unrest · famine · drought · civil war · ethnic cleansing · ceasefire
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