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| LEBANON | officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic is a small, predominantly mountainous country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea
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| MACKINDER, HALFORD J. | Sir Halford John Mackinder PC (February 15, 1861 – March 6, 1947), was an English geographer and geopolitician.
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| MANIFEST DESTINY | the belief that the United States was destined to expand from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean; it has also been used to advocate for or justify other territorial acquisitions.
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| Median line principle | The "median line principle" is an approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the mid-point between two places.
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| MICROSTATE | is a sovereign state having a very small population or very little land area – usually both.
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| MINISTATE | a small, independent nation
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| NATION | is a form of self-defined cultural and social community.
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| NATIONAL ICONOGRAPHY | national iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images.
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| NATION-STATE | is a specific form of state, which exists to provide a sovereign territory for a particular nation, and which derives its legitimacy from that function.
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| NUNAVUT | is the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999 via the Nunavut Act[4] and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act.
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| RAISON D'ETRE | is a phrase borrowed from French where it means simply "reason for being"; in English use it also comes to suggest a degree of rationalization, as "The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone".
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| REAPPORTIONMENT | the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something
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| REGIONALISM | is a political ideology that focuses on the interests of a particular region or group of regions, whether traditional or formal (administrative divisions, country subdivisions, political divisions, subnational units).
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| RELIGIOUS CONFLICT | (blank)
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| REUNIFICATION | To cause (a group, party, state, or sect) to become unified again after being divided
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| SATELLITE STATE | is a political term that refers to a country which is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country.
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| SELF-DETERMINATION | is a principle, often seen as a moral and legal right, that "all peoples have the right [to] freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development."
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| SHATTERBELT | (blank)
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| SOVEREIGNTY | is the exclusive right to have complete control over an area of governance, people, or oneself. A sovereign is the supreme lawmaking authority, subject to no other.
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| STATE | A state is a political association with effective sovereignty over a geographic area. These may be nation states or sub-national states.
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