AP HUG chapter 8
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| Anocracy |
A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types.
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| Autocracy |
A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people
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| Balance of Power |
Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.
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| boundary |
invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory
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| city-state |
A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.
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| Colonialism |
An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
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| compact state |
A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
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| Democracy |
A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.
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| Elongated State |
A state with a long, narrow shape.
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| Federal State |
An internal organization of a state that allocates strong powers to units of local government.
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| fragmented state |
A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.
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| frontier |
A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.
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| Gerrymandering |
Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
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| Landlocked |
A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.
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| Microstate |
A state that encompasses a very small land area.
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| Multiethnic state |
A state that contains more than one ethnicity
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| 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.
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| nation-state |
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
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| Perforated State |
a state that completely surrounds another one
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| Prorupted State |
an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension
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| Self-determination |
Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
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| Sovereignty |
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
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| Terrorism |
The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.
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| Unitary State |
An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials
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| state |
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.
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