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| a category of belonging to a nation-state that includes civil, political, and social rights |
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| the acquisition by colonized peoples of control over their own territory |
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| institutionalized ways of constituting knowledge |
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| a system in which public policies and officials are directly chosen by popular vote |
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| 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 irresistibly suseptible to communism |
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| communist and noncommunist countries, respectively |
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| the mass killing and exstinction of an entire population, ethnic group, or culture |
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| state's power to control space or territory and shape the foreign policy of individual states and international political relations |
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| group of people often sharing common elements of culture, such as religion or language or a history or political identity |
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| ideal form consisting of a homogeneous group of people governed by their own state |
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| feeling of belonging to a nation as well as the belief that a nation has a natural right to determine its own affairs |
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| triumph of capitalism over communism, wherein the United States becomes the world's only superpower and therefore its policing force |
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| differentiation made between the colonizing states of the Northern Hemisphere and the formerly colonized states of the Southern Hemisphere |
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| discourse that positions the West as culturally superior to the East |
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| exercise of state power over people and territory, recognized by other states and codified by international law |
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| an independent political units with territorial boundaries that are internationally recognized by other states |
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| delimited area over which a state exercises control and which is recognized by other states |
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| threat or use of force to bring about political change |
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