It is tactically useful for Russia, China, and others to conflate espionage issues with civil liberties and accuse the US of hypocrisy. But those charges seem odd coming from countries with weak rule of law and heavy Internet censorship.

Analysts might be looking first at their local circumstances, and then extrapolating from that to their assessments of global institutions. Pessimism about slow national recoveries in the developed world is causing analysts to conflate poor domestic and regional governance with poor global governance.

It is a mistake to conflate technocratic elites (those with PhDs or other advanced economics degrees) with other kinds of elites (those with money or power, especially if they inherited one or the other). Most economists understood the downside risks of European monetary union.

Some observers conflate the concept with imperialism but the US is clear evidence that a hegemon does not have to have a formal empire. Others define hegemony as the ability to set the rules of the international system but precisely how much influence over this process a hegemon must have, relative to other powers, remains unclear.

These discordant tunes conflate This accords with the definition of women combatants contained in Annex E of the DDRR Framework Strategy as referring to all categories of women, who voluntarily or were abducted for the purposes of participation in the conflict or may have been used to provide a variety of services to the forces either as cooks, camp followers, wives of and forced spouses during the conflict .