centripetal force - Force that unites a group of people, centrifugal force - Force that divides a group of people, supranational organization - Alliance of 3 or more states that work together in pursuit of a common goal, unitary state - Government where central government maintains authority over all the state’s territory, federal state - Government where power is held in regional units, gerrymandering - When political boundaries are drawn to give one political party an advantage over another, redistricting - When a state's internal political boundaries are redrawn, irredentism - Governments trying to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation, colonialism - Practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories, devolution - When the central power in a state is broken up among regional authorities, sovereignty - Right to a government to control and defend your territory, neocolonialism - Economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies, shatterbelts - Regions where states form, join, and breakup because of ongoing, sometimes violent, conflicts among parties, choke point - Narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass, territoriality - Attempt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area; the connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land,

Unit 4 Vocabulary: Political Patterns and Processes

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