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16 Cards in this Set
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State
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State – a politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory, and a government. To be a state, an entity must be recognized as such by other states
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Nation
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A nation is a culturally defined group of people with a shared past and a common future who relate to a territory and have political goals
Tribe-Community |
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Multinational State
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A state with more than one nation.
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Stateless nation
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A state (country) with more than one nation (group)
Example: Kurdistan, Jews before Israel |
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Colonialism
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A physical action in which one state takes over control of another, taking over the government and ruling the territory as its own.
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Devolution
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Movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state.
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Geometric Boundaries
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Boundaries that are based on grid systems
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Physical-political boundaries
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Follow an agreed-upon feature in the physical geographic landscape.
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Unilateral World Order
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One state has more power than the rest
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Bi-polar world order
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During the Cold War there was a bi-polar world order.
This means two world powers (the Soviet Union and the U.S.) dominated world politics |
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United Nations
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The United Nations:
- Existed since the end of WWII - 191 members - Sent peacekeeping troops to troubled areas - Aided refugees in crisis - Improved human rights |
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Supranational Organizations
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A supranational organization is separate entity composed of three or more states that forge an association and form an administrative structure for mutual benefit in pursuit of shared goals.
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- What is the current world order?
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Unilateralism, with the U.S as the one power
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- How do politicians shape our views of the world?
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• American politicians have often defined the world in terms of “us” and “them”
• The “Us” is pro-democracy, independent, self-sufficient and free. • The “them” is in some way against all of these things. |
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- How did the idea of states spread?
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Mercantilism
-Colonialism |
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- What is the difference between a state and a nation?
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A state is a politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory, and a government.
A nation is a culturally defined group of people with a shared past and a common future who relate to a territory and have political goals A nation is with people that have a culturally defined group. A state is a politically organized territory. |
