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| 12472403532 | Apartheid | The separation of whites and Blacks in Africa |  | 0 |
| 12472418606 | ASEAN | the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an alliance that promotes economic growth and peace in the region |  | 1 |
| 12472428446 | Autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power. |  | 2 |
| 12472434646 | Autonomous region | a political unit with limited self-government |  | 3 |
| 12472442458 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |  | 4 |
| 12472509308 | Blockbusting | A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood |  | 5 |
| 12472513569 | Centrifugal force | A force the pushes people and countries apart |  | 6 |
| 12472513570 | Colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. |  | 7 |
| 12472537313 | Demarcation | the marking of boundaries or categories |  | 8 |
| 12472554726 | Devolution | The transfer of power from national government to local government |  | 9 |
| 12472590641 | Enclave | an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it |  | 10 |
| 12472596870 | Ethnic cleansing | Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |  | 11 |
| 12472607511 | Ethnic Enclave | A place with a high concentration of an ethnic group that is distinct from those in the surrounding area |  | 12 |
| 12472611984 | Ethnicity | identity with a group of people who share the cultural characteristics of a particular homeland or hearth |  | 13 |
| 12472658018 | Ethnoburb | A suburban area with a cluster of a particular ethnic population |  | 14 |
| 12472664349 | EU | European Union |  | 15 |
| 12472671501 | Exclave | a part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory. |  | 16 |
| 12472682638 | Federal state | An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. |  | 17 |
| 12472688969 | Genocide | Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group |  | 18 |
| 12472694617 | Gerrymandering | Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. |  | 19 |
| 12472700793 | Heartland theory | Hypothesis proposed by Halford MacKinder that held that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world. |  | 20 |
| 12472711844 | Imperialism | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. |  | 21 |
| 12472719058 | Irredentism | a policy of advocating the restoration to a country of any territory formerly belonging to it |  | 22 |
| 12472737572 | Law of the Sea | Law establishing states rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources. |  | 23 |
| 12472748608 | Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small land area. |  | 24 |
| 12507236801 | Multi-state nation | A multinational state is a sovereign state that comprises two or more nations. |  | 25 |
| 12507247711 | Municipalities | a city or town that has corporate status and local government. |  | 26 |
| 12507254724 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |  | 27 |
| 12507259063 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country |  | 28 |
| 12507263597 | Nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there. |  | 29 |
| 12507267688 | Nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |  | 30 |
| 12507270691 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries |  | 31 |
| 12507275031 | Organic theory | Theory that states countries must grow and take over other countries or else they will be taken over |  | 32 |
| 12507285029 | Race | A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics. |  | 33 |
| 12507288166 | Redistricting | The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census, to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population. |  | 34 |
| 12507290711 | Rimland theory | Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provided the base for world conquest. | | 35 |
| 12507293617 | Self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |  | 36 |
| 12507296270 | Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states. |  | 37 |
| 12507299869 | Stateless nation | A stateless nation is a political term for an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state. |  | 38 |
| 12507306439 | Supranationalism | A supranational union is a type of multinational political union where negotiated power is delegated to an authority by governments of member states |  | 39 |
| 12507312939 | Territoriality | In political geography, a country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended. |  | 40 |
| 12507315435 | Territory | an area, region, or piece of land |  | 41 |
| 12507318795 | UN | United Nations |  | 42 |
| 12507323596 | Unitary state | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials |  | 43 |
| 12507327115 | White flight | working and middle-class white people move away from racial-minority suburbs or inner-city neighborhoods to white suburbs and exurbs |  | 44 |
