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Unit 3 renner

Political geography

Question	Answer
Political Geography	Study of the organization of the world. Example: A political geographer.
State	A politically organized territory and a organized population with a defined territory and government. Example: United States
Territoriality	Attempt by and individual to control a place by taking over a geographic area. Example: Soviet russia and Korea
Sovereignty	Having the last say over a territory, politically and militarily. Example: England having the say of it's own territory.
Territorial integrity	A sovereign state has the right to defend it's own territory. Example: The U.S. can defend it's own territory with the military.
Peace of Westhpalia	Negotiated in 1648 and began the modern state. Example: The treaties in the peace agreement.
Mercantilism	A protectionist policy of European states. Promoted a states economic position in the contest with other states. Example Europe in the eighteenth century.
Nation	A culturally defined group of people with a shared past and a common future who relate to a territory and have political goals. Example: the Celts.
Nation-state	A politically organized area in which nation and state occupy the same space. Example: The United States.
Democracy	The idea that people are the ultimate sovereign. People have the say of what happens within the state. Example: South Korea.
Multinational State	A state with more than one nation inside it's borders. Example: Yugoslavia.
Multistate nation	When a nation stretches across borders and states. Example: Romania and Hungary.
Stateless nations	Nations that do not have a state. Example:The Palestinians.
Colonialism	Imperial power had ruthless control over their domains and organized them for economic exploitation. European settlers taking over the U.S.
Scale	The way geographers measure things. Example: Measuring things at a global scale.
Capitalism	In the world economy, people,corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market. Example: The U.S.
Commodification	Process of placing a price on a good and then buying, selling and trading the good. Example: Trading between states.
Core	States that promote higher levels of education. Example: Most northern hemisphere countries.
Periphery	States that promote lower levels of education. Example: Southern Hemisphere countries.
Semi-periphery	Places where both core and periphery are both occuring. Example: Mexico
Ability	To influence others to gain a political goal. Example: Most politicians.
Centripetal	Forces that bring a country together. Example: Having a similar government.
Centrifugal	Forces that bring a country apart. Example: Nuclear weapons.
Unitary	The central city is the focus of power. Example: Most European governments during WW2.
Federal	Organizing state territory into regions, states, provinces, or cantons. Example: Canada.
Devolution	Movement of central power of government to a regional government. Example: Spain has done this.
Territorial representation	Each representative is elected from a territorially defined district. Example: The number of representatives in Florida.
Reapportionment	Process by which districts are moved according to population shifts. Example: New York lost two of it's representatives because of the 2000 census.
Major-minority districts	Packed districts where the majority of the population is minority. Example: Any minority district in the world.
Gerrymandering	Redistricting for the advantage. Example: gerrymandering a district for more votes.
Boundary	A vertical plane that cuts through the soil and goes into the atmosphere, dividing one sate from another. Example The border between Canada and the U.S.
Geometric boundaries	Boundaries that are made using a grid system such as longitude and latitude. Example:Border between Canada and the U.S.
Physical-political boundary	A boundary made of a physical feature. Example The mountains between North and South Korea.
Heartland theory	Whoever controls the Heartland controls the world. Example:Heartland is the Northern part of Asia and some of Europe.
Critical Geopolitics	Intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about places and these ideas reinforce their political behavior and policy choices. Example: Politicians.
Unilaretalism	One state leads the others follow. Example: The U.S. and it's allies.
Supranational organizations	An entity composed of three or more states that form an association and share goals. Example: The European Union.
Antecedent Boundaries	A boundary line established before an area is populated. Example: Placing a boundary in an unpopulated area and then leaving it there.
Compact state	A state that is circular or oval in shape. Example: Poland.
Electoral college	A certain number of electors who votes for a political candidate and whoever gets the most electoral votes wins. Example: The 2012 election.
European Union	A supranational organization, made of western European countries to promote free trade. Example: The UK.
Geopolitics	The study of the connection between political relations and the territory in which they occur. Example: A professor who studies geopolitics.
Law of the sea	A law establishing states' rights and responsibilities focused on the sea. Example: California's ownership of the Pacific ocean.
NAFTA	Agreement signed on January 1st, 1994 that allows the opening of borders between Canada, U.S. and Mexico. Example: The trade between the three countries.
Perforated state	A state that completely surrounds another state. Example: Italy
Redistricitng	The drawing of a new electoral districts boundaries due to population change. Example: Making a district bigger due to population change.
States' rights	Rights and powers believed to be that of the state not the federal government. Example: States have powers the federal government does not.
Territorial organization	Political organization that distributes political power in more easily governed areas of land. Example: The states in the U.S.
Balkanization	Process where a state breaks up into smaller countries. Example: Czechoslovakia.
Confederation	A form of an international organization that brings several autonomous states together for a common purpose. Example: Russia.
Electoral vote	An elector that represents the dominant vote of the electors state. Example: The vote in Illinois.
Enclaves	A small region surrounded by a bigger region. Example: Swaziland.
Imperialism	The imprint of a colonial empire although it no longer controls the area. Example: The European culture in the U.S.
Lebensraum	Hitler's expansionist theory to acquire more living space for German people. Example: Hitler carrying out his plan.
NATO	An international organization that has joined together for military purposes. Example: All the states in NATO.
Popular vote	The peoples vote. Example: A candidate getting the popular vote in a campaign.
Relic boundaries	Old political boundaries that no longer exist. Example: Ancient Rome.
Subsequent Boundaries	Boundary line after a population has been settled. The 13 colony boundary lines.
Theocracy	A state who is religiously controlled. Example: Middle eastern governments.
Buffer state	A small country between two larger ones. Meant to keep peace. Example: A buffer state between Korea and China.
Democratization	Process of establishing representative and accountable forms of government led by popular elected officials. Example: The U.S. government.
Elongated state	A state who's shape is long and narrow. Example: Chile.
Fragmented state	A state that is made of separated parts. Example: The Philippines.
International organization	An alliance of two or more countries seeking cooperation with each other. Example: The UN.
Microstate	A state that is small in both population and area. Example: Vatican city.
Organic theory	View that says that states resemble biological organisms and need fuel to survive. Example: The German school that invented the theory.
Prorupted state	A state that exhibits a narrow land extension. Example: Florida.
Rimland theory	Nicholas Spykeman's theory that said the coastal fringes of Euraisa would provide the base for world conquest. Example: The actual Rimland.
Superimposed Boundaries	Boundary line that ignores the existing cultural patterns. Example: Boundaries in Africa.
UN	Made at the end of WW2 to foster international security and cooperation. Example: The Counties in the UN.
Colonialism	The expansion of an empire. Example: The expanding of Japan's empire.
Domino Theory	The believe that if one country goes down the others around ti will also. Example: Soviet Russia and communism.
Exclaves	A territory that is part of a particular state but is separated by it from a different state. Example: Alaska.
Frontier	A place where boundaries are shifting and weak and where people from different cultures meet and claim part of the land. Example: Some place deep in the wilderness.
Landlocked states	A state that is completely surrounded by other states. Example: Niger.
Nationalism	A sense of national pride and sometimes claiming your nation above others. Example: Hitlers Aryan race.
OPEC	An international organization in which all of the countries produce oils. Example: All of the countries in OPEC.
Rectangular state.	A territory who's shape is rectangular. Example: Angola.
Self-determiantion	The right of a nation to govern itself autonomously. Example: South Korea.
Territorial disputes	Any dispute over land ownership. Example: Turkey and Greece over Cyprus.

Created by: drenner6340

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