APHG Unit 4 Vocabulary - Political Patterns & Processes

A State is the same as a ________________

• Country

• Nation

• Territory

• Provence

Legally, a term encompassing all the citizens of a state. Most definitions now tend to refer to a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes. Such homogeneity actually prevails within very few countries

• State

• Nation

• multi-state nation

• multinational state

Theoretically, a recognized member of the modern state possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by a people who see themselves as a single, united nation. Most nations and states aspire to this form, but is realized almost nowhere.

• multi-state nation

• multinational state

• nation-state

• Nation

nation that does not have a state

• Territory

• Provence

• country

• stateless nation

state with more than one nation within its borders

• multinational state

• stateless nation

• multi-state nation

• Territoriality

nation that stretches across borders and across states

• Enclave

• multinational state

• multistate nation

• country

(of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs

• free state

• autonomous region

• Neocolonialism

• Irredentism

Description: An autonomous administrative division is a subdivision or dependent territory of a country that has a degree of self-governance, or autonomy, from an external authority.

• semi-autonomous region

• Self-determination

• Redistricting

• Legitimacy

A principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states

• Supranationalism

• Unitary states

• sovereignty

• Shatterbelt Regions

the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government.

• Neocolonialism

• nation-state

• self-determination

• Irredentism