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SS3201 - 8.0
Political Stability
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| politics | Decisions about how people live and interact together in society. This often includes the administration and management of state affairs (e.g., taxation, providing healthcare, protecting rights, creating laws, etc.) |
| geopolitics | Term that means the decision making of government based on the geography of the area, on a national and international scale. This often includes interactions between and among groups of countries. |
| sovereignty | The legal concept that the authority of a state is not subject to legal control by another state. |
| borders | The limits of a nation-state's influence, laws and sovereignty. |
| natural borders | The territorial limits of a nation-state that are determined by Earth’s physical features (e.g., a mountain range or river). |
| arbitrary borders | The territorial limits of a nation-state that is determined by human means. These may follow lines of latitude and longitude, or may be the result of conflict and the territory over which a nation-state can exert control. |
| arctic ocean sovereignty | This refers to the struggle between Canada, Russia, Denmark, and the United States over greater access to natural resources in the Arctic region. |
| exclusive economic zone | An area of the ocean that extends 200NM or 370km from the coastline of a nation-state. This can be used for extracting natural resources. |
| EEZ | An abbreviation for exclusive economic zone of a nation state that extends 200NM or 370km from the coastline of a nation-state. |
| political stability | This refers to the general level of predictability associated with political environment of a nation state. |
| political instability index | A measurement of the instability in a nation state that uses a number of economic and political factors. A lower number on this index is good. |
| ideology | A system of ideas that forms the basis of economic and political actions. Examples of this term include imperialism, capitalism, socialism, communism, and fascism. |
| communism | This authoritarian ideology believes equality can only be achieved through revolution and elimination of the wealthy class and this is at the expense of the rights of some. |
| fascism | This ultra nationalistic authoritarian ideology sees democracy as weak and diversity in society as being unfavorable. |
| imperialism | The ideology that nation states take over and control other regions to supply natural resources. |
| capitalism | The ideology that puts forward that the best way to organize and economy is to let a free market operate without government control. |
| socialism | The ideology that puts forward that the best way to organize the economy is to have government regulation and control over how the economy operates. |
| nationalism | An extreme devotion to one's country. |
| ethnic nationalism | An extreme devotion to ones ethnic group to the exclusion of others. |
| autonomy | A term that refers to a nation state's ability to have total control over what takes place within its borders. |
| self-determination | A terms that refers to a nation state or region being able to decide on its own government. This may also refer a region wishing to leave a larger nation state to create their own nation state. |
| civic nationalism | An extreme devotion to the nation state not based on the type of people who live there but the common community values, and institutions that they share. |
| religious fundamentalism | An ideology based on strict adherence to religious values above all else. |
| fragile state | A country in which the government has collapsed and is unable to function resulting in a poor quality of life for its citizens. |
| intermediate state | A nation state that could have characteristics of authoritarian and democratic states at the same time. Usually results in a poor quality of life due to the instability of government systems. |
| ethnic cleansing | The practice of trying to eliminate an ethnic group from a particular region or nation state. This is done through forced removal from home, placing in concentration camps and even murder. |
| high political stability | Citizens can predict the basic decisions or processes government will follow to address issues. |
| low political stability | Citizens find it much harder to predict or understand the government’s actions. |
| democratic state | A term for a nation state that does not suppress freedoms and that allows citizens to selected governments in a predictable manner. |
| authoritarian state | A term for a nation state that suppresses freedoms and only allows for one group to form a government without the citizens choice. |
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craigcgilbert
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