Geopolitical Concepts Quiz

The push to create an empire by exercising force or influence to control other nations or peoples is known as:

• Irredentism

• Imperialism

• Neocolonialism

• Territoriality

The right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders is called:

• Colonialism

• Territoriality

• Sovereignty

• Imperialism

The attempt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area is referred to as:

• Territoriality

• Irredentism

• Devolution

• Sovereignty

A politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders and a permanent population

• Colonialism

• State

• Sovereignty

• Devolution

The process that occurs when the central power in a state is broken up among regional authorities within its borders

• Devolution

• Self-determination

• Imperialism

• Irredentism

A narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass

• Chokepoint

• Centripetal

• Irredentism

• Shatterbelt

A country (state) with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders

• Multinational state

• Colonialism

• Independence Movements

• Stateless Nation

A politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation

• Irredentism

• Nation-state

• Sovereignty

• State

A region where states form, join, and break up because of ongoing, sometimes violent, conflicts among parties. They are caught between the interests of more powerful outside states.

• Nation-state

• Shatterbelt

• Irredentism

• Sovereignty

People united by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state.

• Devolution

• Stateless Nation

• Independence Movements

• Imperialism