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bioterrorism: deliberate use of micro-organisms or toxins from living organisms to induce death or disease
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Centrifugal Forces: Forces that divide or tend to pull the state apart.
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Centripetal Forces: Forces that strengthen and unify the state.
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childrens rights: the fundamental right of children to life, liberty, education, and health care
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citizenship: Category of belonging to a nation-state that includes civil, political, and social rights.
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Confederation: A group of states united for a common purpose.
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decolonization: The acquisition, by colonized peoples, of control over their own territory.
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democratic rule: system in which public policies and officials are directly chosen through popular vote
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Domino Theory: If one country in a region chose or was forced to accept a communist political & economic system, then neighboring countries would be irresistibly susceptible to falling to communism
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East/West Divide: Geographic separation between the largely democratic and free-market countries of Western Europe and the Americas from the communists and socialists countries of Eastern Europe and Asia
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Federal State: A form of government in which power is allocated to units of local government within the country.
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Geopolitics: State's power to control space or territory and shape the foreign policy of individual states and international political realtions.
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Gerrymandering: practice of redistricting for partisan purposes
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global civil society: set of institutions, organizations, and behaviors situated between the state, business world, and family
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human rights: people's individual rights to justice, freedom, and equality, considered by most societies to belong automatically to all people
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international organization: A group that includes 2 or more states seeking political and/or economic cooperation with each other
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international regime: the orientation of contemporary politics around the international arena, instead of the national
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intifada: uprising against israel by the palestinian people
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Nation: Group of people often sharing common elements of culture, such as religion or language, or a history or political identity.
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Nation-State: An ideal form consisting of a homogenous group of people governed by their own state.
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Nationalism: The feeling of belonging to a nation as well as the belief that a nation has a natural right to determine its own affairs.
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New world order: the triumph of capitalism over communism, wherein the United States becomes the world's only superpower and therefore its policing force
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North/South Divide: differentiation made between the colonizing states of the northern hemisphere and the formerly colonized states of the southern hemisphere
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reapportionment: the process of allocating electoral seats to geographical areas
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redistricting: the defining and redefining of territorial distinct boundaries
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regionalism: feeling of collective identity based on a population's politico-territorial identification within a state or across state boundaries
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sectionalism: extreme devotion to local interests and customs
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self determinism: the right of a group w/ a distinct politico-territorial identity to determine its own destiny, at least in part, through the control of its own territory
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sovereignty: Exercise of state power over people and territroy, recognized by other states and codified by international law.
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supranational organization: the collections of individual states with a common goal that may be economic and/or political in nature; such organizations diminish to some extent individual state sovereignty in favor of the group interests of the membership
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territorial organization: system of government formally structured by area, not by social groups
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Territory: The delimited area over which a state excercises control and which is recognized by other states.
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terrorism: the threat or use of force to bring about political change
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Unitary State: A form of government in which powere in concentrated in the central government.
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zionism: the establishment of a legally recognized home in palestine for the Jewish people
