1. Power of States

2. Unit Intro Questions
What is the most powerful state/nation in the world today?
What are the reasons why they are so powerful?
Have they always been this powerful? List some powerful states/nations/empires of the past.
Is it possible for a single nation to become too powerful? If so, what can be done to prevent it from getting too powerful?

3. Concepts
State: the collection of institutions which make up a country.
Sovereignty: the authority a state possesses.
International organization: an association of nations with a specific objective. Example: UN, OPEC, NATO.

5. What are the attributes of a State?
Territory
Population (holding nationality of the State)
Government (that can exercise authority and power over its territory)

6. What are the attributes of a State? (continued)
Sovereignty (full and exclusive rights over its territory)
International legal status (rights and obligations in the international arena)

7. Why was there an increase in the number of states in the 2nd half of the 20th century?

8. Colonized Africa (1914)

9. Africa today

10. What effect did decolonization have?
What has changed?
What effect did decolonization have?

11. The Eastern Bloc

12. Political landscape after fall of USSR
Source: Wikipedia
1: Armenia, 2: Azerbaijan, 3: Belarus, 4: Estonia, 5: Georgia, 6: Kazakhstan, 7: Kyrgyzstan, 8: Latvia, 9: Lithuania, 10: Moldova
12: Tajikistan, 13: Turkmenistan, 14: Ukraine, 15: Uzbekistan