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Political Geography
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an area of land under the jurisdiction of a ruler or state | territory |
| official acceptance into the "club of states" | diplomatic recognition |
| a politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and sovereignty over its own affairs | state |
| control over a territory | sovereignty |
| a group of people with a common culture occupying a particular territory, bound together by a strong sense of unity arising from shared beliefs and customs | nation |
| a political unit in which political boundaries coincide with the boundaries of one nation | nation-state |
| a very small state | microstate |
| microstate on the southern coast of France | Monaco |
| a nation whose territorial homeland is found in more than one state | multistate nation |
| a state whose boundaries include more than one nation | multinational state |
| the nations that make up the United Kingdom | Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales |
| phenomenon in which a state seeks to annex parts of another state in order to match state boundaries with national boundaries | irredentism |
| Canadian province in which French is the primary language | Quebec |
| forces that work to pull a country apart | centrifugal forces |
| anything that helps keep a country together | centripetal force |
| someone who wants to break away from a state and form a new state | separatist |
| region in Spain whose people speak their own language and have sought to break away in the past (located in northern Spain along the French border) | Basque |
| Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania | Baltic Republics |
| Moldova, Belarus, and Ukraine | European Republics |
| Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan | Central Asian Republics |
| Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia | Caucasus Republics |
| Russian region near the Caucasus that tried and failed to break away from Russia in the 90s | Chechnya |
| regions of Georgia that seek independence are are recognized by Russia | Ossetia and Abkhazia |
| region of Ukraine that has been annexed by Russia | Crimea |
| autonomous region with the state of Azerbaijan | Nagorno-Karabakh |
| a vertical plane that separates two states | boundary |
| the air above a state | airspace |
| international treaty that defines territorial rights of states in the seas and oceans | Law of the Sea |
| a boundary created by a natural feature such as a river or mountain range | physical boundary |
| a boundary created by surveyors, usually in a straight line | geometric boundary |
| a boundary created before an area was settled | antecedent boundary |
| a boundary created after an area was settled | subsequent boundary |
| a boundary that is drawn to accommodate existing cultural/ethnic differences | consequent boundary |
| a boundary that disregards ethnic/cultural differences (usually drawn by an outside agency) | superimposed boundary |
| European countries set rules for the colonization and partitioning of Africa at this meeting | Berlin Conference of 1884 |
| a dispute between two states involving territorial control | boundary dispute |
| boundary dispute that focuses on the meaning of terms in a boundary treaty | definitional dispute |
| 19th century example of a definitional dispute between the US and Britain | Pig War |
| a dispute that focuses on the use of resources that cross boundaries | allocational dispute |
| a dispute that focuses on where a boundary should be drawn | locational dispute |
| a dispute that involves how a boundary should be used, administered, and/or crossed | operational dispute |
| disputed territory between India and Pakistan | Kashmir |
| Japan and China are involved in a locational dispute over these islands | Senkaku Islands |
| This war began as an allocational dispute between Iraq and Kuwait | First Gulf War |
| a state that has a roughly uniform shape | compact state |
| a state with a long and narrow shape | elongated state |
| an otherwise compact state with a large protrusion | prorupted state |
| a state with a large amount of disconnected territory | fragmented state |
| a state that completely surrounds another state | perforated state |
| a state that lacks direct access to the ocean | landlocked state |
| a territory that is almost or completely surrounded by other states | enclave |
| a territory that is disconnected from the rest of the state | exclave |
| the boundary between these two states contained numerous exclaves and enclaves until a recent treaty eliminated most of them | India and Bangladesh |
| government type in which the people are expected to serve the interests of the government | autocracy |
| government type in which the government is expected to serve the people | democracy |
| government type in which the government exercises near complete control over the lives of the people within the state | totalitarian |
| the best example of a totalitarian state in the world today | North Korea |
| a government in which the government exercises a great deal of control over the people but not complete control | authoritarian |
| a type of government in which a small group of people rule | oligarchy |
| a state in which power is divided between a national and regional governments | federal state |
| a state in which all power rests in the hands of a single national government | unitary state |
| term used to describe the drawing of Congressional districts that favor one party over the other | gerrymandering |
| the seat of government for a state | capital city |
| a capital city that is built away from core areas within a state, often as a way to spur development or increase unity | forward-thrust capital |
| the capital of Brazil and a good example of a forward-thrust captital | Brasilia |
| the tendency for states to work together toward shared goals | supranationalism |
| what a state gives up when it joins a supranational organization | sovereignty |
| the tendency for political power to be transferred from national governments to regional governments; often done in order to satisfy ethnic nationalist feelings | devolution |
| military alliance formed in an effort to contain Soviet expansion | NATO |
| military alliance formed by the Soviet Union to counter NATO | Warsaw Pact |
| 40-year standoff between the US and Soviet Union | Cold War |
| Supranational organization that consists of more than two dozen European states, has its own currency, flag, and government | European Union |
| Supranational organization that exists to control the price of oil | OPEC |
| a violent act carried out against noncombatant targets by non-military forces in order to achieve a political goal | terrorism |
| terrorist efforts that receive support (money, protection, intelligence, etc.) from a state government | state-sponsored terrorism |
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