Political Organization
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| show | To incorporate (territory) into an existing political unit such as a country, state, county, or city. This often occurs when combining two or more specific boundaries to create a larger state.
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| Apartheid | show 🗑
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| Boundary, type | show 🗑
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| Buffer state | show 🗑
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| show | Center of government. It is almost always the city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the seat of government and fixed by law, but there are a number of exceptions.
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| show | A rotating reference frame that is used for analysis. A central force that is exerted on all objects, and directed away from the centre of rotation, divisive in nature
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| show | An attitude that unifies people and enhances support for the state Ex: Communist Russia
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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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| Confederation | show 🗑
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| show | Regulated trade and colonization in Africa. It formalized the scramble to gain colonies in Africa and set up boundaries for each country’s colonies
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| Decolonization | show 🗑
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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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| show | A zone that extends 200 nautical miles from the coast of the country. It allows that country exclusive rights over exploration and resources in the waters of the zone
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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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| show | A tension or war between different groups due mainly to ethnic nationalism.
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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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| show | An international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary
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| show | the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the political party in power. The process is usually used to turn “too close to call” states into a party’s favor.
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| Heartland | show 🗑
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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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| show | An organization that transcends national borders and takes an active roll in the affairs of two or more nations. The United Nations is an example.
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| show | The title given to the dividing line between democratic western Europe and Communist eastern Europe following the second world war. The title was given by Sir Winston Churchill during a lecture series and it had a contemporary in Asia, the Bamboo Curtain.
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| show | Names given to the area of the middle east that runs along the Mediterranean down to the Red Sea, including the important religious city of Jerusalem and other sites important in Western Religion. Jewish dominance of the region lead to conflict.
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| show | Mountainous country in Western Asia on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean sea. Syria is o the N and the E, Israel is to the S. It's government is based on a community-based power-sharing mechanism.
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| show | English geographer and geopolitician who argued that physical and human geography should be treated as a single discipline. He also claimed that whoever controlled the heartland, controls Eurasia, and hence the entire world.
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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 | a state that encompasses a very small land area
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| show | the largest and newest territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999.
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| show | a phrase borrowed from French where it means simply "reason for being"; in English use it also comes to suggest a degree of rationalization, as "The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone".
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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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| show | the joining of seperate political entities which had been previously united
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| Satellite state | show 🗑
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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 | 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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| show | A disagreement over the possession or control of land between two or more states or over the possession for reasons such as natural resources
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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 | 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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