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A cultural group that has no independent political entity.
Stateless nation
When a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states.
Multistate nation
A group of people who have a common cultural heritage, shared unifying beliefs, claim to a homeland, a desire to establish their own state.
Nation
A state that has a degree of, but not complete self-rule.
Semiautonomous region
A force that divides people, breaks states apart, or even prevent states from forming.
Centrifugal force
The process of reclaiming sovereignty over their territory from foreign influence.
Decolonization
The process in which one or more regions are given increased autonomy by the central political unit.
Devolution
A willingness by a person or group of people to defend space they claim.
Territoriality
A defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state.
Autonomous region
A period of diplomatic, political, and military rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Cold War
Event that formed many African countries disregarding preexisting ethno-linguistic, cultural, and political boundaries. (Congo Confernece)
Berlin Conference
The power of a political unit, or government, to rule over its own affairs.
Sovereignty
Organized mass killing.
Genocide
A country that contains more than one nation.
Multinational state
The largest political unit, the formal term for a country
State
When influential nations move into and settle on the land of another territory.
Colonialism
Ways of influencing another country or group of people by direct conquest, economic control, or cultural dominance.
Imperialism
A nation of people who fulfill the qualifications of a state.
Nation-state
A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction.
Choke point
The right to choose their own sovereignty gov without external influence
Self-determination
A nation's desire to create and maintain a state of its own.
Nationalism
A force that unifies people within a country.
Centripetal force
The study of the effects of geography on politics and relations among states.
Geopolitics
Economic, political, and/or cultural control is indirectly exerted over developing countries in the present.
Neocolonialism
A state dominated by another politically and economically
Satellite states