Unit 5 Vocab

2. An international group or union in which the power and influence of member states transcend national boundaries or interests to share in decision making and vote on issues concerning the collective body.
3. A state that is simply divided or separated by a barrier.
4. A state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme.
5. Any state whose territorial boundaries do not touch an ocean, gulf, or bay.
7. A state that completely surrounds another.
11. The political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing states, provinces, or other regions under a federal governemnt.
12. - 4 characteristics: population,territory,sovereignty,and government.
13. The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
15. 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.
16. The right of self-government.
17. 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.
18. The full right and power of a governing body over itself, without any inference from outside source.

1. A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
6. An ethnic group or nation that does not posses its own state and is not the majority population in any state.
8. A state with a long, narrow extended territory.
9. The boundaries between countries and territories.
10. A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity.
14. A state that has an extension that protrudes from the main territory.