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22 Cards in this Set
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Balance of Power |
condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliences of countries |
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Boundary |
invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory |
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City-State |
a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland |
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Colonialism |
attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principals in another territory |
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Colony |
a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independant |
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Compact State |
a state in which the distance from the center ro any boundary does not vary significantly |
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Elongated State |
a state with a long, narrow shape |
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Federal State |
an internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to untis of local government |
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Fragmented State |
a state that includes severlal discontinuous pieces of territory |
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Frontier |
a zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control |
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Gerrymandering |
process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power |
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Imperialism |
control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous group |
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Landlocked State |
a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea |
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Microstate |
a state that encompases a very small land area |
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Perforated State |
a state that completely surrounds another one |
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Prorupted State |
an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension |
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Sovereignty |
ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states |
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State |
an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs |
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Unitary State |
an internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials |
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Terrorism |
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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Fatwa |
in Islam, a legal opinion issued by an authority according to a particular school of law |
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Self Determination |
the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
