| Term | Definition |
|---|
| democracy | government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system |
| devolution | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government. |
| ethnic group | When peoples share a well-developed sense of belonging to the same cultural group. |
| ethnonationalism | The identification and loyalty a person may feel for his or her nation. |
| gateway state | A state, by virtue of its border location between geopolitical power cores, that absorbs and assimilates cultures and traditions of its neighbors without being dominated by them. |
| geopolitics | The study of the interplay between international political relations and the territorial/environmental context in which they occur. |
| globalization | The expansion of economic, political, and cultural activities to the point that they become global in scale and impact. This process has been aided by technological advances in transportation, information management, and telecommunications. |
| New World Order | A description of the international system resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union in which the balance of nuclear terror theoretically no longer determined the destinies of states. |
| religious fundamentalism | Religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy. |
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