Chapter 8 Flashcards

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a country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people

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Autocracy

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a condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries

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Balance of power

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an invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory

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Boundary

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an attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory

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Colonialism

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a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent

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Colony

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a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly

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Compact state

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a country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office

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Democracy

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a state with a long, narrow shape

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Elongated state

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an internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government

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Federal state

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10
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a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory

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Fragmented state

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a zone separating two sates in which neither state exercises political control

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Frontier

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12
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the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power

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Gerrymandering

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a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea

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Landlocked state

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14
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a state that encompasses a very small land area

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Microstate

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15
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a state that contains more than one ethnicity

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Multiethnic state

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a state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities

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Multinational state

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a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

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Nation-state

18
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a state that completely surrounds another one

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Perforated state

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an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension

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Prorupted state

20
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the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

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Self-determination

21
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ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states

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Sovereignty

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an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs

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State

23
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the systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands

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Terrorism

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an internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials

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Unitary state