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| 11927569162 | Annexation | Legally adding land area to a city in the United States |  | 0 |
| 11927594626 | anocracy | A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types. |  | 1 |
| 11927679105 | Autocracy | a system of government by one person with absolute power. |  | 2 |
| 11927702869 | Autonomous region | a political unit with limited self-government |  | 3 |
| 11927718092 | Balance of Power | Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries. |  | 4 |
| 11927737378 | Balkanization | Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities | 5 | |
| 11927759948 | Berlin Conference | A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa | 6 | |
| 11927796649 | boundary | invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory | 7 | |
| 11927817116 | city-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland. | 8 | |
| 11927821055 | centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state | 9 | |
| 11927828933 | centrifugal force | a force that divides people and countries | 10 | |
| 11927828934 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. | 11 | |
| 11927833468 | Colonialism | Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. | 12 | |
| 11927838772 | colony | A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent. | 13 | |
| 11927844747 | compact state | A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly. | 14 | |
| 11927844796 | Democracy | A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 15 | |
| 11927848601 | Elongated State | A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape. | 16 | |
| 11928019381 | European Union | An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. | 17 | |
| 11928019383 | Federal State | An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government. | 18 | |
| 11928022875 | fragmented state | A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory. | 19 | |
| 11928028174 | frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control. | 20 | |
| 11928028175 | Gerrymandering | Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. | 21 | |
| 11928122053 | Landlocked State | A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea. | 22 | |
| 11928127158 | Micro state | A state that encompasses a very small land area. | 23 | |
| 11928131722 | Multiethnic state | A state that contains more than one ethnicity | 24 | |
| 11928131723 | 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. | 25 | |
| 11928805472 | multistate nation | nation that stretches across borders and across states | 26 | |
| 11928805473 | Nation | a politically organized body of people under a single government | 27 | |
| 11928810592 | nation-state | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | 28 | |
| 11928814379 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country | 29 | |
| 11928823339 | Perforated State | a state that completely surrounds another one | 30 | |
| 11928826795 | Proupted state | an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension | 31 | |
| 11928830162 | Satellite State | independent nation under the control of a more powerful nation | 32 | |
| 11928833599 | Self-determination | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | 33 | |
| 11928839021 | Shatterbelt | a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals (e.g., Israel or Kashmir today; Eastern Europe during the Cold War,...). | 34 | |
| 11928844176 | Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states. | 35 | |
| 11928844177 | State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs. | 36 | |
| 11928849659 | stateless nation | A nationality that is not represented by a state. | 37 | |
| 11928854197 | Terrorism | Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population | 38 | |
| 11928858275 | Unitary State | An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | 39 | |
| 11928858276 | Untied Nations | an international organization whose goals are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries. | 40 |
