Chapter 8 Flashcards
A policy or system of segregation of or discrimination on grounds of race
Apartheid
The formal act of acquiring something by the conquest or occupation
Annexation
The contentious political process by which a state may break up into smaller countries
Balkanization
A relatively small country sandwiched between two larger powers
-the existence may help to prevent dangerous conflicts between powerful countries
Buffer state
An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
Capitalism
Forces that tend to divide a country
Centrifugal force
Forces that tend to unite or bind a country together
Centripetal forces
A city that with its surroundings territory forms and independent state
City-state
The expansion and perpetuation of an empire
Colonization
A form of an international organization that brings several autonomous states together for a common place
Confederation
- National or global regions where economic power, in terms of wealth, innovation, and advanced technology, is concentrated
- countries that usually have low levels of economic productively, low per capita incomes, and generally low standards of living
Core
Periphery
The delegation of legal authority from a central government or lower levels of political organization, such as a state of country
Devolution
The idea that political destabilization in one country can lead to collapse of political stability in neighboring countries, starting a chain reaction of collapse
Domino theory
Different voting districts that make up local, state, and national regions
Electoral regions
- any small and relatively homogenous group or region surrounded by another larger or different group or region
- a bounded territory that is part of a particular state but is separated from it by the territory of a different state
Enclave
Exclave
