Political Geography
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| show | a branch of geography that deals with human governments, the boundaries and subdivisions of political units (as nations or states), and the situations of cities
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| show | a country's more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended. (personal Space)
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| show | a principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters, should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states. (legally having the last say over a territory)
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| Territorial Integrity | show 🗑
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| show | peace negotiated in 1648 to end the Thirty Years' War, Europe's most destructive internal struggle over religion. The treaties included contained new language recognizing statehood and nationhood, clearly defined borders, and guarantees of security.
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| Mercantilism | show 🗑
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| Nation | show 🗑
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| show | A state made up of a nation (Japan)
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| Democracy | show 🗑
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| Multination-State | show 🗑
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| show | Nation that stretches across borders and across states (Christians)
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| Stateless-Nation | show 🗑
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| Colonialism | show 🗑
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| Capitolism | show 🗑
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| Commodification | show 🗑
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| Core | show 🗑
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| Periphery | show 🗑
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| Ability | show 🗑
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| Centripetal | show 🗑
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| show | Forces that tend to divide a country
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| Unitary | show 🗑
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| show | Having or relating to a system of government in which several states form a unity but remain independent in internal affairs.
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| Devolution | show 🗑
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| show | system wherein each representative is elected from a territoriality defined district
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| Reapportionment | show 🗑
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| show | the process by which the majority and minority pops. are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created therein ensuring control by the majority of each of the districts; as opposed to the results of majority-majority districts
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| Gerrymandering | show 🗑
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| show | Vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above the surface.
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| Geometric Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | Process by which geopoliticians deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spacial assumptions ans territorial perspectives of politicians
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| Physical-Political Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | Hypothesis proposed by Halford Mackinder that held that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world.
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| show | world order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision making process
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| Supranational Organization | show 🗑
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| Antecedent Boundaries | show 🗑
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| show | The contentious political process by which a state may break up into smaller countries
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| Buffer State | show 🗑
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| show | the expansion and perpetuation of an empire
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| Compact state | show 🗑
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| Confederation | show 🗑
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| Democratization | show 🗑
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| Domino Theory | show 🗑
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| Electoral College | show 🗑
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| show | The decision of a particular state elector that represents the dominant views of that elector's state
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| show | a state whose territory is long and narrow in shape
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| Enclaves | show 🗑
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| European Union | show 🗑
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| Fragmented states | show 🗑
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| Frontier | show 🗑
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| Geopolitics | show 🗑
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| Imperialism | show 🗑
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| International Organization | show 🗑
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| Landlocked State | show 🗑
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| show | law establishing states' rights and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources
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| show | Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people
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| show | a state or territory that is small in both population and area
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| Nationalism | show 🗑
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| North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | show 🗑
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | show 🗑
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| Organic Theory | show 🗑
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| Perforated State | show 🗑
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| show | the tally of each individual's vote within a given geographic area
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| show | a state that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main territory
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| show | a state who's territory is rectangular shaped
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| show | the drawing of new electoral district boundary lines in response to population changes
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| show | old political boundaries that no longer exist as international boundaries, but have left a mark
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| Rimland Theory | show 🗑
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| Self-determination | show 🗑
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| show | rights and powers believed to be in the authority of the state rather than the federal government
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| show | boundary line established after an area has been settled that considers the social and cultural characteristics of an area
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| show | boundary line drawn in an area ignoring the existing cultural pattern
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| Territorial Dispute | show 🗑
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| Territorial Organization | show 🗑
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| Theocracy | show 🗑
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| United Nations (UN) | show 🗑
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