{
  "id": "foreign-interference.outside",
  "term": "foreign interference",
  "sense": "outside",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 19,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A collective self that reads the walls on it as set by an out-group: another nation acting from outside its boundary on how it chooses its government.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "out-group.outside",
      "nation.political",
      "act.deed",
      "choose.decision",
      "government.administrative",
      "power.over",
      "read.information",
      "wall.range-end",
      "set.fix",
      "outside.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "The walls read as external are those on the group's own act of choosing, so the report is about its autonomy at its most self-defining point.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "an outside setter on the act of choosing",
      "autonomy threatened where it is most its own"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Australia passed laws against foreign interference in its politics in 2018.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "fifth-column.inside",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a fifth column is read as inside; foreign interference as acting from outside"
    },
    {
      "id": "autonomy.self-governed",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "foreign interference is a report that autonomy is being breached"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "election interference",
    "foreign interference",
    "foreign meddling",
    "outside interference"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-foreign-interference.outside"
}