political unions
Countries joining together
Political unions are formal arrangements in which separate states or territories merge their governance, typically sharing a common government, laws, or constitution.
The term ranges from loose federations to complete integration: The European Union began as an economic partnership but evolved toward political union.
A political union may preserve some autonomy for member states or absorb them entirely into a unified nation.
- confederationAutonomous entities united loosely
- federal stateSelf-governing national subdivision
- integrationCombining into a whole
- common marketIntegrated trading zone
- treaty negotiationFormal interstate agreement process
constitutional reform · power sharing · economic cooperation · commonwealth · annexation · Holy Roman Empire · Warsaw Pact · United Kingdom · referendum process · protectorate · military coordination · merger · coalition building · united front · diplomatic mediation · United Arab Emirates · economic disparity · legal conflicts
- advocacy groupsadvocacy group, lobbying groups, lobby group, NAACP, lobby groups
- German UnificationGerman Confederation, Prussia, Bismarck, Austria, Reichstag
political unionssecession
Formal withdrawal from union
dissolution · disunion · breakup · partition · fragmentation
political unionsdisunity
Absence of accord
schism · factionalism · civil war · division · split
political unionsisolationism
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
national sovereignty · withdrawal · exit · Brexit · political independence
political, politics, politic, politically, politician, politicians, politicize, politicized, politicization