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4.1-4.3 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| State | the largest political unit, the formal term for a country |
| sovereignty | the power of a political unit, or government, to rule over its own affairs |
| nation | a group of people who have certain things in common |
| nation-state | a nation of people who fulfill the qualifications of a state |
| multinational state | a country that contains more than one nation |
| autonomous region | a defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state |
| semiautonomous region | a state that has a degree of, but not complete self-rule |
| Stateless nation | a cultural group that has no independent political identity |
| multistate nation | occurs when a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states |
| nationalism | a nation’s desire to create and maintain a a state of its own |
| centripetal force | one that helps to unify people within a country |
| centrifugal force | a force that tends to divide people |
| imperialism | a broader concept that includes a variety of ways of influencing another country or group of people by direct conquest, economic control, or cultural dominance |
| Colonialism | a particular type of imperialism on which people move into and settle on the land of another country |
| berlin conference | a meeting of European powers to formalize the colonization and trade of Africa, establishing rules for claiming territory |
| Self-determination | The right to choose their own sovereign government without external influence |
| decolonization | the undoing of colonization |
| genocide | organized mass killings in which people are targeted because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or nationality |
| cold war | a period of diplomatic, political, and military rivalry between the United States and the union of soviet socialist republics |
| satellite states | a state dominated by another politically and economically |
| devolution | The process in which one or more regions are given increased autonomy by the central political unit |
| Geopolitics | the study of the effects of geography on politics and relations among states |
| territoriality | a willingness by a person or a group of people to defend space as they claim |
| neocolonialism | the use of economic, political, and cultural pressures by powerful core countries (often former colonizers) to control or influence less powerful peripheral nations, even after formal independence, maintaining dependency through trade, debt, investments, |
| choke point | a narrow, critical geographic location (like a strait, canal, valley, or bridge) that restricts the flow of trade, people, or military forces |
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