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| Autocracy | A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people. |
| Balance of Power | A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries. |
| Democracy | A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office. |
| Boundary | An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory. |
| City-State | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside. |
| Colonialism | An attempt by one country to establish settlement and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory. |
| Gerrymandering | The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. |
| Multiethnic State | A state that contains more than one ethnicity. |
| Colony | A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent. |
| Multinational State | A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities. |
| Nation State | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity. |
| State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled bay an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs. |
| Self-Determination | The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves. |
| Sovereignty | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states. |
| Terrorism | The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into grating its demands. |
