The word "destabilize" is correct and is commonly used in written English.
You can use it to describe when something causes an institution, government, or other organization to become weaker or less stable. For example, "The new political policies caused instability in the region, destabilizing the government."
When American paratroopers began a training mission in western Ukraine earlier this week, the Kremlin said it could "destabilize the situation".
This could well be enough to destabilize entire societies.
TODAY's recommended economics writing:Anne Applebaum suggests that with financial markets on edge, now is an opportune time for financial terrorists to strike To put it another way: If you wanted to destabilize a country, wouldn't this be an excellent time to do it?
"We completely reject the Venezuelan government's allegations of U.S. government involvement in any type of conspiracy to destabilize the Venezuelan government," the American Embassy said in a statement.
Capriles was vehement in his condemnation of the state of emergency declared by Maduro on May 14, ostensibly in the name of national security, which the president claimed was threatened by right-wing Venezuelans and foreign interests who allegedly were plotting to destabilize the country.
One consequence is that what is designed to be a countercyclical policy becomes a procyclical one; instead of stabilizing the economy it tends to destabilize it.
Intracommunal tensions as well as secular-Islamic rivalries could destabilize the tortuous process of democracy building in Egypt.
TODAY's recommended economics writing:I'm going to quote Dani Rodrik quoting...you'll see A particularly destabilizing aspect [during the crisis] was the tendency of fears about the soundness of banks and expectations of exchange-rate devaluations to reinforce each other.
In her followup paper, being published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Ms Dynan in essence acknowledges this, without recanting her earlier work:The greater access to credit that has resulted from financial innovation has had both stabilizing and destabilizing effects on households.
In Latin America, Guillermo O'Donnell and Arturo Valenzuela used public-opinion surveys and voting, economic, and demographic data to examine the forces that have destabilized democracy there.
The boat and skew conformations lack perfect staggering of bonds and are destabilized by torsional strain.
