Across
- 2. A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.
- 3. A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.
- 6. The systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm among a population or to coerce a government into actions it would not otherwise undertake or refrain from actions it wants to take.
- 12. A state with a long, narrow shape.
- 13. Federal state
- 15. An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
- 17. A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.
- 18. The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
Down
- 1. A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but rather displays a mix of the two types.
- 4. a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
- 5. The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
- 7. A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.
- 8. A state that encompasses a very small land area.
- 9. A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.
- 10. A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
- 11. An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
- 14. An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory.
- 16. Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.