# foreign interference (outside)

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.

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [out-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside), [nation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nation.political), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed), [choose](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-choose.decision), [government](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-government.administrative), [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [outside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outside.spatial)

**Through:** 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
- Australia passed laws against foreign interference in its politics in 2018. *(politics)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-foreign-interference.outside.json*  
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