Introduction to Geopolitics

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nation-state. The result is the mobilization of force to change 
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Figure 5.4
Ethnic cleansing: eradication.

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same time, any
people in Circle State who survived the killing flee or are expelled.
The “purity” and “wholeness” of nation 
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Case study 5.1: Chechnya
Conflict in the breakaway Russian province of Chechnya has been an ongoing and brutal
process of nationalist geopolitics. The struggle is about, on the one hand, the territorial
integrity of Russia and, on the other hand, the desire by Chechens for their independent
country (Figure 5.6). In other words, there is a fight over the establishment of Chechnya
as an independent nation-state. The population of Chechnya is approximately one million
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