Introduction to Geopolitics

TRIANGLE STATE
CIRCLE STATE
Figure 5.3
Ethnic cleansing: expulsion.

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“defiled” in order to “pollute” the purity of the nation. In our schematic example, Circle
State has retaliated to the expulsion of people 
in Triangle State by killing people 
within the borders of the Circle State. The goal of 
and 
nationalists is the creation
of a state containing one, and only one, national group.
Sometimes, the geopolitics of nationalism will stop here. In other cases, there may be
a further violent step (Figure 5.5). After the bout of ethnic cleansing, Circle State may
be pure, but for some the process is incomplete: not all of the members of nation
reside within the borders of Circle State. In a fundamentalist interpretation of national-
ism, the members of nation
in Triangle State are unfulfilled, denied their right to