Ap Flashcards

5290147801	Nation	Legally, a term encompassing all the citizens of a state. A tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared attributes.	0
5290150437	State	An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.	1
5290415504	Stateless ethnic groups	Stateless ethnic groups are ethnic groups that share certain cultural, political, and/or historic qualities, such as religion, location, or art, but do not share enough qualities to be recognized as a nationality/nation and have no state(homeland) that is politically recognized as belonging to them.	2
5290420408	Supranationalism	a method of decision-making in multi-national political communities, wherein power is transferred or delegated to an authority by governments of member states. A venture involving three or more national states forming a formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. Ex. NAFTA, CAFTA, and the EU Superimposed - A political boundary placed by powerful outsiders on a developed human landscape that usually ignores preexisting cultural-spatial patterns, such as the border that divides North and South Korea or the African countries.	3
5290432892	Devolution	Both the decentralization of a government from a unitary to a federal system or a fracturing of a government, like balkanization. The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government. Ex: United Kingdom	4