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Chapter 8 Vocabulary

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show A sovereign territory, recognized as a country by other states under international law. A state has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states.  
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show Sense of ownership and attachment to a specific territory.  
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show Treaties negotiated in 1648 that formally recognized the sovereignty of states.  
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show The legal authority to have the lest say over a territory. Under international law, states are sovereign.  
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show Right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states.  
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show Physically taking over a territory and people and controlling the economy and government.  
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Mercantilism   show
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show A group of people with a shared past and common future who relate to each other and share a common political goal.  
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Imagined community   show
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Nation-state   show
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Multinational state   show
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show Nation (people) that stretches across states (countries).  
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show A nation that does not have a state.  
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First wave of colonialism   show
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Second wave of colonialism   show
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World-Systems Theory   show
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Capitalism   show
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show Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded.  
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Core   show
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show Places in the world economy where periphery processes dominate.  
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show Places where core and periphery processes are both occurring; places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the periphery.  
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Centripetal forces   show
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show In nationalism, attributes of a nation that can be activated or manipulated to divide the nation, such as unequal distribution of wealth, or religious, linguistic, ethnic, and ideological differences.  
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show A state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state.  
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Federal states   show
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Devolution   show
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show Government by the people where the people are sovereign and have the final say over what happens with a state.  
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show Redistribution of representatives based on population change. For example, seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are reapportioned across states after each census before each state redistricts.  
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Splitting   show
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show Electoral district where the majority of the people in the district are from a minority group.  
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Gerrymandering   show
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Boundary   show
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show Political boundaries defined and delimited (and occasionally demarcated) as a straight line or an arc.  
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show Political boundary defined by a prominent physical feature in the physical landscape, such as a riverbank or the crest of a mountain range.  
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show Halford Mackinder's theory that a political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world. "Controls Eastern Europe controls the Heartland; Controls the Heartland controls the World Island; then world  
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Unilateralism   show
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show Movement, of economic, social, and cultural processes out of the hands of states( countries).  
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Reterritorialization   show
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Supranational organizations   show
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Balkanization   show
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European Union   show
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show According to the world systems theory, the world is divided into three types of countries or areas: core, periphery, and semi-periphery. Core countries are dominant capitalist countries that exploit peripheral countries for labor and raw materials.  
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show catalonia, scotland, bosnia  
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show Movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state or breakup of a large state (balkanization) into several independent ones is known as devolution. Devolutionary stuff leads to increased autonomy for a territory/state  
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