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Unit 4: Government
Barron's Ch.5 / Rubenstein Ch. 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A boundary line established before an area is populated | Antecedent Boundaries |
| Forces that tend to divide a country | Centrifugal Forces |
| Forces that tend to unit or bind a country together | Centripetal Forces |
| The expansion and perpetuation of an empire | Colonialism |
| Confederacy of independent states of the former Soviet Union that have united because of their common economic and administrative needs | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| A state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the distance from the geometric center is relatively equal in all directions | Compact State |
| A form of an international organization that brings several autonomous states together for a common purpose | Confederation |
| The idea that political destabilation in one country can lead to collapse of political stability in neighboring countries, starting a chain reaction of collapse | Domino Theory |
| Geographic seperation between the largely democratic and free market countries in Western Europe and the Americas from the Communist and Socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia | East/West Divide |
| A certain # of electors from each state proportional to and seemingly representative of that state's population. Each elector chooses a candidate believing they are representing their constituency's choice. | Electoral College |
| The decision of a particular state elector that represents the dominant views of that electoral's state. | Electoral Vote |
| A state whose territory is long and narrow in shape. | Elongated State |
| Any small and relatively homogeneous group or region surrounded by another larger and different group or region | Enclaves |
| International organization comprised of Western European countries to promote free trade among members. | European Union |
| A bounded territory that is part of a particular state but is seperated from it by the territory of a different state. | Exclave |
| A system of government in which power is distributed among certain geographical territories rather than concentrated within a central government | Federalism |
| A state that is not a contiguous whole but rather seperated parts | Fragmented State |
| An area where borders are shifting and weak and where and peoples of different cultures or nationalities meet and lay claim to the land | Frontier |
| Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines. | Geometric Boundaries |
| The study of the interplay between political relations and the territorial context in which they occur | Geopolitics |
| The designation of voting districts so as to favor a particular political party or candidate | Gerrymandering |
| Hypothesis proposed by Halford Mackinder that held that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to dominate the world | Heartland Theory |
| The perpetuation of a colonial empire even after it is no longer political sovereign | Imperialism |
| An alliance of 2 or more countries seeking cooperation with each other without giving up either's autonomy or self-determination | International Organization |
| A state that is completely surrounded by the land of other states, which gives it a disadvantage in terms of accessibility to and from international trade routes | Landlocked State |
| Law establishing states' rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources | Law of the Sea |
| Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people | Lebenstraum |
| A state or territory that is small in both population and area | Microstate |
| Tightly knit group of individuals sharing a common language, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural attributes | Nation |
| A sense of national pride to such an extent of exalting one nation above all others | Nationalism |
| A country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity | Nation-State |
| Agreement signed on January 1, 1994, that allows the opening of borders between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada | The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
| An international organization that has joined together for military purposes. | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| The economic division between the wealthy countries of Europe and North America, Japan, and Australia and the generally poorer countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America | North/South Divide |
| The view that states resemble biological organisms with life cycles that include stages of youth, maturity, and old age | Organic Theory |
| An international economic organization whose member countries all produce and export oil | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
| A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state | Perforated State |
| Political boundaries that correspond with prominent physical features such as mountain ranges or rivers | Physical Boundaries |
| The spatial analysis of political phenomena and processes | Political Geography |
| The tally of each individual's vote within a given geographic area | Popular Vote |
| A state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main territory | Prorupted State |
| The process of a reallocation of electoral seats to defined boundaries | Reapportionment |
| A state whose territory is rectangular in shape | Rectangular State |
| The drawing of new electoral district boundary lines in response to population changes | Redistricting |
| Old political boundaries that no longer exist as international borders, but that have left an enduring mark on the local cultural or environmental geography | Relic Boundary |
| Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the coastal fringes of Eurasia would provide the base for world conquest | Rimland Theory |
| The right of a state to rule itself autonomously | Self-Determination |
| Supreme or independent political power | Sovereignty |
| A politically organized territory that is administrated by a sovereign government and is recognized by the international community | State |
| Rights and powers believed to be in the authority of the state rather than the federal governnment | States' Rights |
| Boundary line established after an area has been settled that considers the social and cultural characteristics of the area | Subsequent Boundary |
| Boundary line drawn in an area ignoring the existing cultural pattern | Superimposed Boundary |
| Organization of 3 or more states to promote shared objects | Supranational Organization |
| Any dispute over land ownership | Territorial Dispute |
| Political organization that distributes political power in more easily governed units of land | Territorial Organization |
| A state whose government is either believed to be divinely guided or a state under the control of a group of religious leaders | Theocracy |
| A state governed constitutionally as a unit, withou internal divisions or a federalist delegation of powers | Unitary State |
| A global supranational organization established at the end of World War 2 to foster international security and cooperation | United Nations |
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