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Vocab

Government

The people and institutions that create and administer laws over a sovereign state

International Organization

An alliance of two or more countries seeking cooperation with each other without giving up either's autonomy or self-determination in areas of economics, military or

Institutions

An established official organization having an important role in the life of a country

Irredentism

When a minority ethnic group desires to break away from a multi-ethnic state and form its own nation-state OR break away and align itself with a culturally similar state

Multi-Ethnic State

A state that contains more than one ethnicity

Multinational State

A sovereign state with more than one nation within its borders

Nation

Tightly knit group of individuals sharing a common language, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural attributes

Nationalism

A sense of national pride to such an extent of exalting one nation above all others

Nationality

A membership of a nation or sovereign state, usually determined by citizenship by sometimes by ethnicity or place of residence

Nation-State

A country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity.  (Borders of a state coincide with that of a homogeneous nation)