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| 9078258716 | state | area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government | 0 | |
| 9078258717 | Microstate | A state that encompasses a very small land area. | 1 | |
| 9078258718 | Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states | 2 | |
| 9078258719 | nation state | State whose territory corresponds to that occupied by particular ethnicity | 3 | |
| 9078258720 | city states | Sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding country side | 4 | |
| 9078258721 | self determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | 5 | |
| 9078258722 | Multiethnic state | A state that contains more than one ethnicity | 6 | |
| 9078258723 | multinational state | A state that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self determination and self government | 7 | |
| 9078258724 | Colony | A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent. | 8 | |
| 9078258725 | Colonialism | Effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory and impose its political economic and cultural principles on that territory | 9 | |
| 9078258726 | boundary | invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory | 10 | |
| 9078258727 | frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control. | 11 | |
| 9078258728 | territorial waters | 12 nautical miles, state may set laws regulating passage by other states ships | 12 | |
| 9078258729 | Contiguous waters | 12-14 nautical miles, state can enforce laws concerning pollution, taxation, customs and immigration | 13 | |
| 9078258730 | Exclusive Economic Zone | 24-200 nautical miles, state has fishing and mariner life rights | 14 | |
| 9078258731 | compact state | a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly | 15 | |
| 9078258732 | Elongated State | A state with a long, narrow shape (e.g. Chile) | 16 | |
| 9078258733 | Prorupted State | An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension. | 17 | |
| 9078258734 | Perforated State | a state that completely surrounds another one | 18 | |
| 9078258735 | fragmented state | a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory | 19 | |
| 9078258736 | Landlocked state | A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea | 20 | |
| 9078258737 | Democracy | Country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office | 21 | |
| 9078258738 | Autocracy | A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people | 22 | |
| 9078258739 | Anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two. | 23 | |
| 9078258740 | unitary state | places most power in the hands of central government officials | 24 | |
| 9078258741 | federal states | Allocate strong power to units of local government within the country | 25 | |
| 9078258742 | Gerrymandering | Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. | 26 | |
| 9078258743 | wasted vote | spreads opposition supporters across many districts but in the minority |  | 27 |
| 9078258744 | excess vote | concentrates opposition supporters into a few districts |  | 28 |
| 9078258745 | Stacked vote | Distinct areas of like-minded voters are linked through oddly shaped boundaries |  | 29 |
| 9078258746 | NATO | Military alliance among 16 democratic states include in the United States and Canada +14 European states | 30 | |
| 9078258747 | The Warsaw pact | Military agreement among communist Eastern European countries | 31 | |
| 9078258748 | European Union (EU) | Design to heal scars from World War II | 32 | |
| 9078258749 | COMECON | Designed to promote trade ensuring of natural resources in communist Eastern Europe | 33 | |
| 9078258750 | OSCE (Europe) | Active forum for countries concerned with ending conflicts in Europe especially in the Balkans and caucuses | 34 | |
| 9078258751 | OAS (organization of American states) | Promote social, cultural, political, and economic links among member states | 35 | |
| 9078258752 | AU (African union) | Places an emphasis on promoting economic integration in Africa | 36 | |
| 9078258753 | Commonwealth | Seek economic and cultural cooperation | 37 | |
| 9078258754 | Terrorism | Systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create fear and alarm among the population in order to make the government take actions it wouldn't normally take | 38 |
