State: Definition and Criteria

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State

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Formal term for a country.

It must include:

1) defined boundary, 2) permanent population, 3) maintain sovereignty (power), 4) be recognized by other states

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Multinational State

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A country that contains more than one nation

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Nation

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A group of people with a common identity through shared cultural traits

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Nation-State

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When the people of a state (country also share a common culture. When the borders of a state line up with the territory of a single nation of people.

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Stateless Nation

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A cultural group that has no independent political entity

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Multistate Nation

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A nation that has a tate of its own but stretches across borders to other states.

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Examples of stateless nations

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The Kurds in SW Asia, Palestines in Israel, Basques in Spain

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Centrifugal Force

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A force that divides people, breaks states apart, or prevent states from forming.

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Centripetal Force

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A force that unifies people within a country

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Nationalism

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Having pride in ones country, a nation's desire to create and maintain a state or its own.