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deliberate use of microorganisms or toxins from living organisms to induce death or disease.

Forces that strengthen and unify the state.

The fundamental right of children to life, liberty, education, and health care codified by the united Nations convention on the right of the Child in 1989

A category of belonging to a nation state that includes civil, political, and social rights.

A group of states united for a common purpose.

A spiral buildup of advantages that occurs in specific geographic settings as a result of the developement of external economies, agglomeration effects, and localization economies.

The aquisition, by colonized people, of control over their own territory.

replacement of high birth and death rates by low birth and death rates.

Institutionalized ways of constituting knowledge.

The theory that if one country in a region chooses or is forced to accept a communist political and economic system, then neighboring countries would be irresistably susceptible to communism.

Communist and noncommunist countries, respectiviely

Form of government in which power is allocated to units of local governments within the country.

States power to control space or territory and shape the foreighn policy of individual states and international political relations.

Practice of redistricting for partisan purposes.

Set of institiutions, organizations and behaviors situated between the state, business world, and family including voluntary and non-profit organizations philanthropic institutions, and social and political movements.

Peoples individual rights to justice, freedom, equality, consdidered by most societies to belong automatically to all people.

Group that includes two or more states seeking political and/ or economic cooperation with each other.

Orientation of contemporary politics around the international arena instead of the national.

Uprising against Israel by the Palestinian people.

a group of people often sharing common elements of culture, such as religion or language or a history or political identity.

Feeling of belonging to a nation as well as the belief that a nation has a natural rightto determine its own affairs.

Ideal form consisting of a homogeneous geoup of people by their own state.

Triumph of capitalism over communism, wherein the United states becomes the worlds only superpower and therefore its policing force.

differentiation made between the colonizing states of the northern hemisphere and the formerly colonized states of the southern hemispherem

Discourse that positions the west as culturally superior to the east.

Process of allocating electoral seats to geographical areas.

defining and redefining of territotial district boundaries.

Feeling of collective identity based of a populations politico-territorial identification within a state or across state boundaries.

Extreme devotion to local interests and customs.

right of a group with a distinctive polotico-territorial identify to determine its own destiny, at least in part, through the control of its own territory.

Exercise of state power over people and territory , recognized by other states and codified by international law.

Collections of individual states with a common goal that may be economic and/or political in nature.

Systems of government formally structured by area, not by social group.

Deliminated area over which a state exervises control and which is recognized by other states.

Threat or use of force to bring about political change.

Form of government in which power is concentrated in the central government.

Movement for the establishment of a legally recognized home in Palestine for the Jewish People