Political Processes & Patterns
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| Antecedent Boundaries | show 🗑
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| Annexation | show 🗑
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| show | The fragmentation of a region into smaller, often hostile political units. Named after the Balkan peninsula where this process is common
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| show | A politico-economic union of regional interstate cooperation between BE (Belgium), NE (Nederland) and LUX (Luxemburg)
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| Buffer State | show 🗑
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| Berlin Conference 1884 | show 🗑
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| Capitalism | show 🗑
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| Centrifugal Forces | show 🗑
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| Centripetal Forces | show 🗑
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| City-State | show 🗑
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| Colonialism | show 🗑
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| show | A regional intergovernmental organization of originally ten post-Soviet republics in Eurasia formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991
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| Compact State | show 🗑
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| show | A body formed by persons, states or nations united by a league or common cause
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| Core | show 🗑
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| show | The gaining of independence by a colony
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| Delimitation | show 🗑
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| show | Political boundaries on Earth's surface are determined by the use of man made structures such as fences and walls, ie. United States/Mexico.
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| Democracy | show 🗑
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| Democratization | show 🗑
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| Devolution | show 🗑
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| Domino Theory | show 🗑
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| show | The geographic separation between the largely democratic and free-market countries of Western Europe and the Americas from the communist and socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia
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| show | A body of electors established by the United States Constitution, which forms every four years for the sole purpose of electing the president and vice president of the United States.
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| Elongated State | show 🗑
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| show | A portion of a state that is totally surrounded by another state whose inhabitants are ethnically or culturally distinct, ie. Armenia
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| show | Designed initially to facilitate trade between European nations, is now uniformity in social and political policies as well as economic
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| show | A small portion of land that is separated from the main state, ie. Kaliningrad /Russia.
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| show | A political system where a central government represents the various entities within a nation state while retaining their individual identities
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| Fragmented State | show 🗑
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| show | Zone where no state exercises political control, ie. Antarctica and Portions of Saudi Arabia.
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| show | Straight lines that serve as political boundaries that are unrelated to physical and /or cultural differences, ie. United States/Canadian border.
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| Geopolitics | show 🗑
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| Gerrymandering | show 🗑
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| Heartland Theory | show 🗑
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| Hegemon | show 🗑
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| show | the perpetuation of a colonial empire even after it is no longer politically sovereign
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| show | An organization whose members are sovereign states
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| Irredentism | show 🗑
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| Landlocked State | show 🗑
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| Law of the Sea | show 🗑
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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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| Manifest Destiny | show 🗑
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| Mercantilism | show 🗑
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| show | A state that is extremely small, ie. San Marino or Vatican City
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| show | A state with more than one nation within its borders
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| Multi-State Nation | show 🗑
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| Nation | show 🗑
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| show | A sense of national pride to such an extent of exalting one nation above all others
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| show | A political unit comprising a clearly delineated territory where the population shares a common history and culture, ie. Japan.
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| show | An agreement signed on Jan. 1, 1994 that allows the opening of borders between the US, Mexico, and Canada
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| show | An international organization that has joined together for military purposes
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| North/South Divide (Brandt Line) | show 🗑
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| Organic Theory | show 🗑
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| OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) | show 🗑
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| show | A state that totally surrounds another state, ie. South Africa.
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| show | Political boundaries that correspond with prominent physical features such as mountain ranges or rivers
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| Political Geography | 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 having a portion of territory that is elongated, ie. Thailand
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| Periphery | show 🗑
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| show | Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district contains approximately the same number of individuals
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| Rectangular State | show 🗑
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| show | The drawing of new electoral district boundary lines in response to population changes
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| show | Boundary that ceases to exist, however the imprint of the boundary still remains on the cultural landscape, ie. north/south Vietnam.
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| Rimland Theory | show 🗑
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| Self-Determination | show 🗑
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| show | Places where core and periphery process are both occurring; places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the periphery
suffrage
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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
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| show | An independent political unit, with a defined territory, that has dominion over the space and the people.
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| show | Nations which do not have a state, ie. The Kurds, Palestinians
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| State’s Rights | show 🗑
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| show | Boundaries that are created as a result of long term processes, ie Vietnam/China
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| show | The right to vote
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| Superimposed Boundary | show 🗑
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| Supranational Organization | show 🗑
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| show | Any dispute over land ownership
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| Territorial Organization | show 🗑
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| Theocracy | show 🗑
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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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| show | A nation state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state
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| show | (United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea) – met for the first time in 1958 to decide uniform always to govern the ownership of one of the world’s’ most giant frontiers.
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| Apartheid | show 🗑
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| Census | show 🗑
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| show | An Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is a sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. The country that controls the EEZ has rights to the fishing, whaling, etc., as well as the raw material resources.
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| show | A war between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism or fight over natural resources. Ethnic conflict often includes genocide. It can also be caused by boundary disputes.
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| Ethnic Cleansing | show 🗑
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| show | The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.
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| show | Refers to the area of the sea beyond the national jurisdiction of any state.
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