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The acronym for Super-Empowered Angry Men.  See: Super-Empowered Angry Men.

The acronym for Super-Empowered Individual.  See: Super-Empowered Individual.

A term used by Thomas P. M. Barnett to describe states that act as buffer zones, or bridge zones, between the Gap and the Core:

The countries that ring the Gap--such as Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Some are already members of the Core, and most others are serious candidates for joining the Core. These states are important with regard to international security, because they provide terrorists geographic access to the Core. (Thomas P. M. Barnett's Globogization)

See: Gap, Core

A term first coined by Thomas Friedman to describe super-empowered individuals who use their super-empowerment destructively, as opposed to the more generic term super-empowered individuals who may or may not be "angry".

See: Super-Empowered Individual

Further reading: prologue to Longitudes and Attitudes by Thomas Friedman.

Further reading: Super-Empowered Individuals and 5GW: Heads or Tails  on Dreaming 5GW. 

"A super empowered individual, in my view, is autonomously capable of creating a cascading event that grand strategist Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett has termed a 'system perturbation'; a disruption of system function and invalidation of existing rule sets to at least the national but more likely the global scale. The key requirements to become 'superempowered' are comprehension of a complex system’s connectivity and operation; access to critical network hubs; possession of a force that can be leveraged against the structure of the system and a willingness to use it." -- Mark Safranski, ZenPundit.

Super-empowerment has been defined variously as superior economic empowerment, technological empowerment, materiel empowerment, intellectual empowerment, 'connectivity' empowerment, etc., in which the level of empowerment so far exceeds the norm for any given society or system, individuals possessing the included powers are capable of causing significant and generally irreparable alterations to the environment (system or society.)  Super-empowered individuals possess a greater ability to affect systems than the vast majority of others living within those systems.

See: Super-Empowered Angry Men

A term first used by Thomas P. M. Barnett to describe a situation or event characterized by and/or causing a breakdown in, or invalidation of, a system level rule-set.

See also: System Perturbation @ Thomas P. M. Barnett's Globogization

The point in a system (either an infrastructure or a market), where a swarm of insults, disruptions and attacks will cascade and collapse the system, resulting in financial loss, supply shortages, or destabilization. (Wiktionary)

Within his theory of Global Guerrillas, John Robb has often made use of the term systempunkt when describing how non-state actors might attack, disrupt, and destroy states -- perhaps, globalization.

Further reading: "The Systempunkt" @ Global Guerrillas.