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| 3163964258 | State | -an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs -occupies a defined territory on Earth's surface and contains a permanent population -Maryland |  | 0 |
| 3163964259 | Sovereignty | -Means independence from control of its internal affairs by other states -the entire area of a state is managed by its national government, laws, army, and leaders, it is a good example of a formal or uniform region -freedom |  | 1 |
| 3163967682 | Microstates | -states with very small land areas -only classify as states because they have sovereignty -Monaco |  | 2 |
| 3163970540 | Nation-state | -a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity -desire for self-rule is a very important shared attitude for many of them -United Kingdom |  | 3 |
| 3163973750 | Self-determination | -The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves -Most African colonies feel they could have done things without European influence ruling over them -Lybia |  | 4 |
| 3171934974 | United Nations | -group originating from winston churchill that is a world court of all of the different nations in the world that come together to solve traumatic issues -used also to end major conflicts and come to negotiations without destroying eachother |  | 5 |
| 3171937591 | Western Sahara/Morocco sovereignty debate | 6 | ||
| 3171937592 | Polar claims | -claims made by countries in the north pole based on resourcce consumption -usually over lp and are supposed to be 300 ft off of where their land ends |  | 7 |
| 3171941032 | Turmoil in the caucasus | -home to a lot of different types of ethnicities -after the soviet union broke apart all of the ethnicities started fighting in such a small confined place the size of colorado in order to find out how they would like to be governed and to have self determination and sovereignty -Armenians |  | 8 |
| 3171942166 | Colonialism | -an effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory and impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on that territory -Usually used to deplete resources from a nation who isn't developed enough to produce their own economic wealth -Also used to promote their way of life transfusing cultures together |  | 9 |
| 3171945011 | Dependencies/remaning colonies | -There are only a handful of remaining colonies because of their inability to be self governed or they just have a huge dependency on another country -These states have economic relations but they are mostly 2nd world countries who arent fully developed yet -Greenland |  | 10 |
| 3238809740 | frontier | -a zone where no state exercises complete political control -usually uninhabited or sparsely settled -now made into boundaries over time |  | 11 |
| 3238809741 | physical boundaries | -coincide with significant features of the natural landscape -Have been boundaries for years because of the physical formation -Mountains/rivers |  | 12 |
| 3238812319 | ethnic boundaries | -follow the distribution of cultural characteristics -these are used in gerimandering and other based on their cultural language or belief system -This causes major disputes over new countrys because of the fast growing beliefs in the world |  | 13 |
| 3238812320 | autocracy | -a country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people. -This form of government is usually refered to as a dictatorship for its harsh ways but it doesn't always mean it has negative outcomes but mostly does |  | 14 |
| 3238814943 | anocracy | -a country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types. -This form of government usually means that it is not fullly developed in which style they would like to go which means they could lean to either sides depending on their views on how things should be run -russia |  | 15 |
| 3238814944 | Arab spring | -This is the sudden shift of a lot of autocratic government styles having political rallys trying to have more of the peopel involved and gettin democratic lifestyles -causes the US to respond and usually leads to alot of unneccesary conflict -syria, egypt |  | 16 |
| 3238817468 | Unitary | -places more power in the hands of central government officials -works best in nation-states because it requires effective communication between people who are somewhat the same so they can maintain their unified branch of government -Kenya |  | 17 |
| 3238817469 | federal | -allocates strong power to units of local government within a country -Places that have smaller governemtns inside their countries have the right ot abide by their own set of laws and carry them out in any means they woud like to under the constitution -United States |  | 18 |
| 3238819686 | balance of power | -This refers to the very complicated time of the power shift between the Soviet Union and the United States -Each wanted to oer power the other except for the fact they just had major intiidation tactics such as nuke testings and trying to "flex" their power |  | 19 |
| 3238819687 | NATO | -North Atlantic Treaty Organization -This was a treaty between 16 democratic countries initially set up to oversee the Soviet Union power at the time but still exists as a strong democratic union force -US, Canada |  | 20 |
| 3238823023 | Warsaw pack | -a military agreement among communist eastern european countries to defend each other in case of attack. -this was in response to the US creating NATO -Russia |  | 21 |
| 3238823024 | COMECON | -a negotiaiton that was formed under the bases of communism -fell and disbanded in the 1990's after the initial fall of communism -Russia |  | 22 |
| 3238826635 | Eurozone | -This was the bank that oversaw the european countries when the Eurozone bank wanted to change european currency to the Euro and how they were going to distribute it correctly -also basically the formation officially of the EU |  | 23 |
| 3238826636 | OSCE | -officially became useful after the end of the cold war -oversees the major conflicts within Europe like in the Blakans -Balkan |  | 24 |
| 3238829021 | OAS | -Used as an economic link within the western hemisphere -headquarters is in DC and is only used on the western civilization as political and economic ties -Cuba |  | 25 |
| 3238830775 | State support for terrorism | -Countless attacks within our country such as 9/11 and the boston bombing and other acts are within the states and have civilians that promote this causing major tension and call for high security |  | 26 |
| 3238833563 | Libya terrorist attacks | -Libya during their democratic revolution had implemented procedures to attack other surrounding areas such as germany in terrorist acts -Also forming other terrorist groups like al queada |  | 27 |
