Political Geography
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| political geography | a subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of spatial organization
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| state | a politically territory that is administered
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| territoriality | a country's or more local community's senseof property and attatchment towards its property
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| sovereignty | a principle of international relationships that holds the final say over over social, economic, and political matters
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| territorial integrity | the right of a state to defend its against incursions from other states
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| Peace of Westphalia | 1648 Peace negotiation that led to the idea of the state and the end of the 30 years war
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| mercantalism | a general sense associated with the promotion of comercialism and trade
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| nation | a group of tightly knit group of posseesing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and cultural attributes.
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| nation-state | a recognized member of the modern state system possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by a people who see themselves as a single, united nation (a state of almost entirely one nation)
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| democracy | gov. based on principles that people are ultimately sovereign
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| multinational state | a state with more than one nation within
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| multistate nation | a nation that spreads across borders and states
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| stateless nation | a nation that does not have a state
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| colonialism | rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place
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| scale | representation of real world phenomena at a certain level of reduction or generalization
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| capitalism | economic model wherin people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market with the goal of acheiving profit
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| commodification | the process through which something is given monetary value (previously not regarded as item to be sold)
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| core | processes that incorporate higher levels of education, salaries, and more technology
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| semiperiphery | places where core and periphery processes are both occuring
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| ability | the capacity of a state to influence other states
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| centripetal | forces that tend to unite a country
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| centrifugal | forces that tend to divide a country
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| unitary | a centralized gov. and administration that excercizes power equally in over all parts of a state
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| federal | a political system wherea central gov. represents various entities within the states
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| devolution | the process where regions given more rights or gain political strength
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| territorial representation | system wherein each representativeis elected from a territorially defined districe
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| reapportionment | the process by which representative districs are switched according to population shifts
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| splitting | in context of determining representative districs, the process by which majority and minority of populations are spread evenly actoss each of the districs
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| majority-minority districts | in context of determining representative districs, the process by which the majority of the population is a minority
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| gerrymandering boundary | redistricting for advantage
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| physical political boundary | political boundary defined and delimited (sometines demarcated) by a prominent physical boundary
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| heartland theory | a geopolitical hypothesis that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to dominate the world
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| critical geopolitics | process by which geopolitcians deconstructand focus on explaining assumptions and territorial perspectives of politics
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| unilateralism | world order in which one stateis in proposition of dominance with allies following rather than joining political decision making
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| supernational organization | three or more states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooporation to premote shared objectives
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| periphery | process that incorporate lower levels of education, salaries, and less technology
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