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| 6052207048 | Anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather shares a mix of the two | 0 | |
| 6052207049 | Autocracy | A country that is run by the interest of the ruler rather than the people | 1 | |
| 6052207050 | balance of power | condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries | 2 | |
| 6052207051 | boundary | invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory | 3 | |
| 6052207052 | city-state | a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland | 4 | |
| 6052207053 | colonialism | attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory | 5 | |
| 6052207054 | colony | a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent | 6 | |
| 6052207055 | compact state | a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly | 7 | |
| 6052207056 | democracy | A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office | 8 | |
| 6052207057 | elongated state | A state with a long, narrow shape | 9 | |
| 6052207058 | federal state | an internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government | 10 | |
| 6052207059 | fragmented state | a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory | 11 | |
| 6052207060 | frontier | a zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control | 12 | |
| 6052207061 | gerrymandering | process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power | 13 | |
| 6052207062 | landlocked state | a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea | 14 | |
| 6052207063 | microstate | a state that encompasses a very small land area | 15 | |
| 6052207064 | Multiethnic state | A state that contains more then one ethnicity | 16 | |
| 6052207065 | multinational state | 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 | 17 | |
| 6052207066 | Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been changed into a nationality | 18 | |
| 6052207067 | perforated state | a state that completely surrounds another one | 19 | |
| 6052207068 | prorupted state | an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension | 20 | |
| 6052207069 | Self-determination | The concept that ethnicity have the right to govern themselves | 21 | |
| 6052207070 | sovereignty | ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states | 22 | |
| 6052207071 | state | an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs | 23 | |
| 6052207072 | Terrorism | The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands | 24 | |
| 6052207073 | unitary state | an internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | 25 | |
| 6052217198 | Physical Boundary | coincide with significant features of the natural landscape; deserts, mountains, water (sea, rivers. lakes) | 26 | |
| 6052225796 | Cultural Boundaries | follow the distribution of cultural characteristics; Geometric, ethnic | 27 | |
| 6052253681 | Domino Theory | Used to describe one event will set off other events Communism: 1960-1980 Arab Spring | 28 | |
| 6052253682 | EEZ | a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind. | 29 | |
| 6052254421 | Enclave | region develops their own ethnic identity (balkanization) Lesotho | 30 | |
| 6052258301 | Exclave | A bounded territory that is part of a particular state but is separated from the territory of a different state. Alaska | 31 | |
| 6052259583 | Fortified Boundary | When a state constructs a physical boundary to either keep people out or in. Examples= North and south Korea, Morocco and Spanish Sahara, Great wall of China(also Relict), Berlin Wall(also relict), US Mexico Border | 32 | |
| 6052259584 | Heartland Theory | 1904: sir halford mackinder Eastern Europe and central asia pivotal to world domination Did not account for water routes Technology, mongols took over on horse back, Horses are important | 33 | |
| 6052261599 | Imperialism | One country exerts cultural or economic dominance over another | 34 | |
| 6052261600 | Relic Boundary | A boundary that doesn't exist anymore but still has an impact on cultural landscape, Examples= West Germany Industrial & more wealthy and East Germany Agricultural, North and South Korea as well | 35 | |
| 6052263144 | Rimland theory | 1944: Nicholas Spielman (father of containment) Rimland would contain the Heartland via alliances Heartland controlled the land, Rimland controlled the sea | 36 | |
| 6052264130 | Superimposed Boundary | Boundary created by another outside group | 37 |
