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Chapter 8 Reading - Orange book

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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   a condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries  
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boundary   an invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory  
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city-state   a sovereign state comprising a city & its immediately surrounding countryside  
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colonialism   an attempt by one country to establish settlements & to impose its political, economic, & cultural principles in another territory  
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colony   a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completely independent  
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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 & 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 most 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   the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power  
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landlocked state   a state that doesn't 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   a 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 correspond 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   the 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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state   an area organized into a political unit & ruled by an established government that has control over its internal & foreign affairs  
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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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physical boundaries   coincide with significant features of the natural landscape  
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cultural boundaries   follow the distribution of cultural characteristics  
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jihad   holy war  
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fatwa   religious decree  
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