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26 Cards in this Set
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Anocracy (p. 282) |
A country that is not fully democratic nor fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types. |
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Autocracy (p. 282) |
A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people. |
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Balance of power (p. 286) |
A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries. |
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Boundary (p. 276) |
An invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory. |
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City-state (p. 266) |
A sovereign state comprised of a city and its immediately surrounding countryside. |
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Colonialism (p. 274) |
An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. |
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Colony (p. 274) |
A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent. |
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Compact state (p. 280) |
A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly. |
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Democracy (p. 282) |
A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office. |
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Elongated state (p. 280) |
A state with a long, narrow shape. |
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Federal state (p. 283) |
An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. |
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Fragmented state (p. 281) |
A state tha includes several discontinuous pieces of territory. |
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Frontier (p. 276) |
A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control. |
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Gerrymandering (p. 284) |
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. |
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Landlocked state (p. 281) |
A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea. |
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Microstate (p. 261) |
A state that encompasses a very small land area. |
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Multiethnic state (p. 268) |
A state that contains more than one ethnicity. |
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Multinational state (p. 268) |
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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National-state (p. 267) |
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality. |
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Perforated state (p. 281) |
A state that completely surrounds another one. |
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Prorupted state (p.280) |
An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension. |
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Self-determination (p. 267) |
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. |
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Sovereignty (p. 261) |
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states. |
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State (p. 261) |
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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Terrorism (p. 290) |
The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demand. |
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Unitary state (p. 283) |
An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials. |
