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Centripetal forces | forces that divide or tend to pull the state apart.
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Citizenship | is a category of belonging to a nation-state that includes civil, political and social rights.
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Decolonization | the acquisition, by colonized peoples, of control over their own territory.
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Democratic rule | a system in which public policies and officials are directly chosen by popular vote.
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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.
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Geopolitics | the state’s power to control space or territory and shape the foreign policy of individual states and international political relations.
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Human rights | people’s individual rights to justice, freedom, and equality, considered by most societies to belong automatically to all people.
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International Organization | group that includes two or more states seeking political and/or economic cooperation with each other.
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Nation | a group of people often sharing common elements of culture, such as religion or language or a history or political identity.
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Nation-State | an ideal form consisting of a homogeneous group of people governed by their own state.
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Nationalism | the feeling of belonging to a nation as well as the belief that a nation has a natural right to determine its own affairs.
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North/South divide | the differentiation made between the colonizing states of the Northern Hemisphere and the formerly colonized states of the Southern Hemisphere.
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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.
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Sovereignty | the exercise of state power over people and territory, recognized by other states and codified by international law.
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Supranational Organization | the collections of individual states with a common goal that may be economic and/or political in nature; such organizations diminish, to some extent individual state sovereignty in favor of the group interests of the membership.
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Territory | the delimited area over which a state exercises control and which is recognized by other states.
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Terrorism | the threat or use of force to bring about political change.
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