is a category of belonging to a nation-state that includes civil, political and social rights.
Geopolitics
the state’s power to control space or territory and shape the foreign policy of individual states and international political relations.
Nation-State
an ideal form consisting of a homogeneous group of people governed by their own state.
Domino Theory
if one country in a region chose or was forced to accept a communist political and economic system, then neighboring countries would be irresistibly susceptible to falling to communism.
International Organization
group that includes two or more states seeking political and/or economic cooperation with each other.
Self-determination
the right of a group with a distinctive politico-territorial identity to determine its own destiny, at least in part, through the control of its own territory.
Human rights
people’s individual rights to justice, freedom, and equality, considered by most societies to belong automatically to all people.
North/South divide
the differentiation made between the colonizing states of the Northern Hemisphere and the formerly colonized states of the Southern Hemisphere.
Decolonization
the acquisition, by colonized peoples, of control over their own territory.
