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Splitting apart due to centrifugal force Domino Theory The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control Electoral College A set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. In 2003 a rebellion against the Sudanese government began, and many thousands died or were displaced in the subsequent conflict Definitional boundary dispute Argument or lack of clarity about the wording of the treaty that establishes the boundary Devolution The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality

Says that the world has moved on, in the cold war it was state verses state, now its not like that, its culture verses culture, Islam versus Christians, cultural struggle rather than ideological struggle Cold War The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990 Colonialism Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory (stronger country takes over weaker country) Compact state A state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance from the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions (distance from center to any boundary is very similar) Confederation The act of forming an alliance league Core The center of something periphery Outer limits or edge of an area or object semi-periphery the industrializing, mostly capitalist countries which are positioned between the periphery and core countries Darfur A region in the west of Sudan, an independent kingdom until 1874. Buffer state A small neutral state between two rival powers Centripetal forces A force that brings people towards the center (bring everyone together) Centrifugal forces A force that moves people away from a center (moves everyone apart) CIS: Commonwealth of Independent States An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991 Clash of Civilizations A book written by Samuel Huntington.