Definitions for Topics 4.1-4.10
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| show | a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
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| nation-state | show 🗑
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| show | A nationality that is not represented by a state.
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| autonomous region | show 🗑
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| show | area where a group has some type of political autonomy. Semi-autonomous regions, like Kurdistan, has a degree of power and self-determination, but not fully like the autonomous regions of Russia in the North Caucasus region
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| show | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs. A country
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| show | a nation or cultural group that is divided across two or more state borders
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| show | Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
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| show | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
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| show | the defense of a bounded physical space against encroachment by other individuals
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| show | a strategic, narrow waterway between two larger bodies of water
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| show | a former boundary line that is still discernible and marked by some cultural landscape features
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| show | a boundary line that is established after the area in question has been settled and that considers the cultural characteristics of the bounded area
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| geometric boundary | show 🗑
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| show | a boundary line that coincides with some cultural divide, such as religion or language
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| show | delineates the space between sovereign space
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| show | a boundary line drawn on a map to show the limits of a space
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| show | a boundary identified by physical objects placed on the landscape; can be a sign, fence, wall, etc.
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| show | a boundary estazblished by a legal document such as a treaty that divides one entity from another
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| show | a boundary that is heavily guarded and discourages crossing and movement
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| show | boundaries in the water; based on UNCLOS and various rights to the waters
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| show | Governs how land waters will be divided; includes Territorial Seas, Contiguous Zones, Eclusive Economic Zones, and High Seas
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| show | voting boundaries created; based on the Census
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| show | authority shared between the central government and provincial, state, and local governments; multiple levels of power
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| show | authority held primarily by central government with very little power given to local governments
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| show | occurs when ethnic groups and minorities are concentrated in specific regions, leading to independence movemnts
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| show | organized violence aimed at government and civilian targets that is intended to create fear in the furtherance of political aims
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| show | a movement to unite by people who share a language or other cultural elements, but are divided by a national boundary
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| Subnationalism | show 🗑
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| show | the breaking down of a state
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| Democratization | show 🗑
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| show | companies that conduct business on a global scale; have weakened state sovereignty and are able to move jobs from country to country
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| show | occurs when multiple states form an organization to collectively achieve greater benefits for all members
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| show | organization of mostly Western and Central European states; created to ensure political and economic cooperation
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| show | organization of 8 states that each claim territory in the Arctic; promotes cooperation on Arctic issues, including indigenous people, sustainability, and environmental protection
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| show | organization of 10 Southeast Asian states; promotes cooperation on a number of issues, including politics and economics
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| show | political body that has disintegrated to the point that it is no longer a sovereign or functioning political entity
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| show | support for the political interests of a particular ethnic group, especially its national independence or self-determination
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| show | changing the number of representattives granted so it reflects the population; done based on the Census
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| show | organization that focuses on the production or petroleum, as well as working to stabilize oil markets; includes states such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Indonexia, Venezuela, Nigeria, and Iran
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