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Question 1

Geopolitics

Answer 1

the study of the effects of geography on politics and relations among states.

Question 2

Authoritarian

Answer 2

govt. with a strong central power, no constitutional accountability, and less individual freedoms

Question 3

Republic

Answer 3

govt where power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected representatives responsible to them and governing according to law

Question 4

Democracy

Answer 4

govt where power resides with the majority

Question 5

Shatterbelts

Answer 5

region that suffers instability or is at risk of instability because it is located between two regions or opposing powers (US vs. USSR)

Question 6

Velvet Divorce

Answer 6

was the unofficial name given to the separation of Czechoslovakia into Slovakia and the Czech Republic in the early 1990

Question 7

Balkinization

Answer 7

fragmentation of a state or region into smaller, often hostile, units along ethno-linguistic lines.

Question 8

Choke points

Answer 8

geographic feature (sea or land), that has significant strategic importance.

Question 9

Territoriality

Answer 9

willingness by a person or group of people to defend space they claim.