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APHG U4 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Autonomy | Having the authority to govern territories independently of the national government (Catalonia in Spain) |
| Boundary | An invisible line / border that separates one state from another |
| Centrifugal Forces | Forces that divide a group of people |
| Centripetal Forces | Forces that unite a group of people |
| Choke Point | A narrow strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass (Panama Canal, Strait of Malacca) |
| City-State | A state that is a single city and its surrounding territory (Vatican City, Singapore) |
| Devolution | When a city's government is broken up among regional authorities (Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland breaking from UK) |
| Ethnonationalism | The people in a state have a shared ethnicity, creating a sense of pride and nationalism |
| Ethnic Cleansing | A state attacks an ethnic group and tries to eliminate it through violence (Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide) |
| Federal State | Power is shared between the federal government and its internal regional units (USA, Canada, India) |
| Gerrymandering | The drawing of legislative boundaries to give one political party an advantage in elections |
| Irredentism | Attempting to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation (Rusia/Ukraine conflicts) |
| Multinational State | A country made up of two or more distinct nations (Iraq with the Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish) |
| Multi-State Nation | People who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country (A sizable number of Ethnic Russians live outside of Russia) |
| Nation | A large group of people with a shared culture, language, and history- a cultural entity (the Navajo, native Hawaiians) |
| Nation-State | The physical territory mostly aligns with the cultural boundaries (Japan, Iceland, Estonia) |
| Reapportionment | The redistribution of representative seats among states based on shifts in population (US House of Representative Seats) |
| Self-determination | The right of a nation to choose its own government and control its own destiny (The states formed by the breakup of Yugoslavia broke off to pursue this) |
| Shatterbelt Region | States form, join, and breakup because of ongoing (usually violent) conflicts among parties (Balkan Peninsula- Yugoslavia) |
| Sovereignty | The right of a government to control and defend its territory and to determine what happens in its borders (US internal government) |
| State | A country with defined borders and sovereignty- a political entity |
| Stateless Nation | A people unites by culture, language, history, and tradition, but not possessing a state (Tribal nations in the US, Basque in Spain) |
| Supranational Organization | An alliance of three or more states that work together in pursuit of common goals and/or to address a challenge (UN, EU, WTO) |
| Territoriality | The connection people or groups have to a specific geographic area, asserting control and a sense of ownership over it (Israel/Palestine conflict, my bedroom) |
| Unitary State | An organization of a state in which Power is concentrated in a central government (France, Japan, UK) |
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