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| show | The only large landmass, in the world, that is not part of a sovereign state. It comprises 14 million square kilometer’s. Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom claim portions.
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| Apartheid | show 🗑
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| Balkanization | show 🗑
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| show | Two types, exclusionary and inclusionary. Exclusionary is meant to keep people out, such as the boarder between the U.S. and Mexico. Inclusionary is meant to facilitate trade and movement, such as the US/Canada boarder.
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| show | Mountains, water and deserts serve as separations between states. Mountains are effective because they are hard to cross. Deserts are effective because they are hard to cross and sparsely inhabited. Water is relatively unchanging.
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| show | a country lying between two rival or potentially hostile greater powers, which by its upright existence is thought to prevent conflict between them
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| Centrifugal | show 🗑
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| show | a region controlled exclusively by a small urban centre, usually having sovereignty. Historically, they have often been part of larger cultural areas, as in ancient Greece (Athens, Sparta and Corinth)
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| show | the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment administrative dependencies in which indigenous populations are directly ruled or displaced
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| show | Association of sovereign states by a treaty or agreement. It deals with issues such as defense, foreign affairs, trade, and a common currency.
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| show | Central countries have high levels of development, a capacity at innovation and a convergence of trade flows. Outer countries usually have less development and are poorer countries.
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| Decolonization | show 🗑
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| show | The decentralization of a government from a unitary to a federal system or a fracturing of a government like Balkanization.
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| show | Was a foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of Communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a this fashion.
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| EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) | show 🗑
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| show | A marked region divided on the basis of population in that area. It has to do with voting.
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| Enclave/Exclave | show 🗑
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| Ethnic Conflict | show 🗑
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| European Union | show 🗑
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| show | Form of government in which the member states give up most of their sovereignty to a national government but retain some sovereignty for themselves. Sovereignty is shared. e.g.: Canada
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| Frontier | show 🗑
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| Geopolitics | show 🗑
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| Gerrymandering | show 🗑
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| Global commons | show 🗑
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| show | Central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture.
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| show | a type of receiving state which is the target of many immigrants. They are popular because of their economy, political freedom, and opportunity. One example would be the USA.
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| International organization | show 🗑
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| Iron Curtain | show 🗑
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| Irredentism | show 🗑
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| Israel/Palestine | show 🗑
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| show | Name given to a state that has no direct access to the ocean or other ample body of water. This is a major impediment to international trade and internal development.
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| show | Body of public international law dealing with navigational rights, mineral rights, jurisdiction over coastal waters and international law governing relationship between nations. (see UNCLOS)
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| Lebanon | show 🗑
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| show | the belief that the U.S. would to expand from Atlantic Seaboard to the Pacific Ocean. This has been used to advocate or justify other territorial acquisitions. It is also the belief that it is a mission to defend democracy.
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| show | an approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the mid-point between two places.
eg. the great lakes between Canada and the U.S.
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| Microstate | show 🗑
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| show | A homogenous group of people with no political boundaries
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| show | A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
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| Raison d’être | show 🗑
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| show | process of allocating political power among a set of principles (or defined constituencies).
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| Regionalism | show 🗑
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| Religious conflict | show 🗑
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| Reunification | show 🗑
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| show | a country which is formally independant but under heavy influence or control by another country.
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| show | concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
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| show | a large, strategically located region that is occupied by a number of conflicting states and is caught between the conflicting interests
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| show | Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states; self-governing
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| show | a politically organized body of people under a single government
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| show | term used to a nation, minority ethnic group without a country. Because there are no objective criteria for classifying nation, usuage of the term is political and controverisal.
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| show | a method of decision-making in political community, where power is heldby appointed officials or representatives elected by the legislature of people of the member states.
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| Territorial disputes | show 🗑
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| Territorial morphology | show 🗑
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| show | Attachment to or protection of a territory or domain
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| show | A form of government in which a God or deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler. For believers, it is a form of government in which divine power governs an earthly human state.
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| show | Located in China, Japan and Korea opened to foreign trade by the Unequal Treaties.i.e., imposed by Western naval powers and Japan on militarily helpless Asian states.
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| UNCLOS | show 🗑
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| show | characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority;
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| show | The maritime fringe of a country or continent.
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