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Political Organization of Space

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Annexation   show
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Anartica   show
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show Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.  
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show A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it is inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other.  
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show the complex representation of the environment around state boundaries  
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show when two or more states disagree about the demarcation of a political boundary  
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Boundary origin   show
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Boundary process   show
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Boundary Type   show
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Buffer State   show
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show associated with its government, it physically encompasses the offices and meeting places of the seat of government and fixed by law.  
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show Forces that tend to divide a country - such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences.  
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Centripetal   show
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show A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland  
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Colonialism   show
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Confederation   show
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conference of Berlin (1884)   show
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Core -periphery   show
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show the action of changing from colonial to independent status  
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show The transfer of certain powers from the state central government to separate political subdivisions within the statee's territory.  
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Domino Theory   show
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Exclusive Economic Zone   show
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Electoral regions   show
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Enclave   show
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show a portion of a state that is separated from the main territory and surrounded by another country.  
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European Union   show
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Federal   show
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Forward capital   show
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Frontier   show
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show the influence of the habitat on political entities  
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Gerrymander   show
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show is that which no one person or state may own or control and which is central to life  
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show The interior of a sizable landmass, removed from maritime connections in particular the interior of the Eurasian continent.  
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rimland   show
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Immigrant states   show
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show an international alliance involving many different countries  
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show ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War  
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show the policy of a state wishing to incorporate within itself territory inhabited by people who have ethnic or linquistic links with the country but that lies within a neighboring state.  
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Landlocked   show
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Law of the Sea   show
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Lebanon   show
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Mackinder, Halford J.   show
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Manifest destiny   show
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Median-line principle   show
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Microstate/Ministate   show
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show a culturally distinctive group of people occupying a specific territory and bound together by a sense of unity arising from shared ethnicity, belief and customs  
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show Branch of knowledge dealing with representations of people or objects in art and design, hence the symbolism in a design  
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Nation-state   show
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Nunavut   show
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show The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone; the sole or ultimate purpose of something or someone  
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show Process by which representative districts are switched according to populatin shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people  
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show political geography group frequently ethnic group identification with a particular region of a state rather thatn with the state as a whole.  
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show the act of coming together again  
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Satellite state   show
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state   show
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show ethnic groups that share certain cultural, political, and/or historic qualities, such as religion, location, or art, but do not share enough qualities to be recognized as a nationality/nation  
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Stateless nation   show
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Suffrage   show
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show is a method of decision-making in multi-national political communities, wherein power is transferred or delegated to an authority by governments of member states  
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show is a disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more states  
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Territorial morphology   show
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show A behavior pattern in animals consisting of the occupation and defense of a territory  
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show is a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler  
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show given to the port cities that were opened to foreign trade by the Unequal Treaties.  
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UNCLOS   show
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Unitary   show
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USSR collapse   show
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Women's enfranchisement   show
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