Vocabulary 5 Flashcards
What is Sovereignty?
The authority of a state to govern itself or another state.
What is a State?
A nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.
What is a Federal State?
A country where governmental authority is shared among a central government and various other smaller, regional authorities.
What is a Unitary State?
A state where laws are administered uniformly by one central government.
There are no regional authorities.
What are Political Boundaries?
An imaginary line separating one political unit, such as a country or state, from another.
What are Physical Boundaries?
A naturally occurring barrier between two or more areas, such as oceans, cliffs, or valleys.
What are Human Made Borders?
Lines drawn by governments that divide up countries, states, counties, and cities. Most of the time you cannot see them; they are imaginary lines drawn on a map.
What is Autonomy?
An area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority.
What is Self Determination?
The ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will.
Sovereignty – a government free from external control.
What is a City State?
A sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside.
What is a Nation?
A group of people with common cultural characteristics.
What is a Nation State?
A state in which the cultural borders of a nation correspond with the state borders of a country.
Example: Japan, Iceland, Denmark.
What is a Stateless Nation?
A nation of people without a state that it considers home.
What are Alliances?
A union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations.
What is Globalization?
The expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact.
What is a Supranational Organization?
A multinational union or association in which member countries cede authority and sovereignty on at least some internal matters to the group, whose decisions are binding on its members.
Examples: UN, European Union.
What is Terrorism?
The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
What is Gerrymandering?
The process wherein political officials redraw electoral districts to favor a certain political party, ethnic group, coalition, or social class.
What is Colonialism?
The process by which one nation exercises near complete control over another country.
