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Political Organization of Space

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Annexation   Legally adding land area to a city in the United States  
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Anartica   is governed by a system known as the Antarctic Treaty System is administered through annual meetings  
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Apartheid   Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.  
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Balkanization   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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Border landscape   the complex representation of the environment around state boundaries  
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Boundary disputes   when two or more states disagree about the demarcation of a political boundary  
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Boundary origin   Also called Genetic Political Boundaries because it has to do with the evolution of boundaries.  
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Boundary process    
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Boundary Type    
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Buffer State   an independent but small and weak country that lying between two powerful countries.  
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Capital   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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Centrifugal   Forces that tend to divide a country - such as internal religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences.  
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Centripetal   Forces that tend to unify a country-such as widespread commitment to a national culture, shared ideological objectives,and a common faith  
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City-state   A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland  
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Colonialism   An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political economic and cultural principles in another territory.  
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Confederation   a uniting or being united in a league or alliance; a league or alliance; specif., independent nations or states joined in a league or confederacy  
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conference of Berlin (1884)   of 1884-85 regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power  
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Core -periphery   spatial structure of an economic system in which underdeveloped or declining peripheral areas are defined with respect to their dependence on a dominating developed core region.  
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Decolonization   the action of changing from colonial to independent status  
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Devolution   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   the political theory that if one nation comes under communist control then neighboring nations will also come under communist control  
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Exclusive Economic Zone   as established in the United Nations Convention on the law of the Sea, a zone of exploitatin extending 200 nautical miles seaward from a coastal state that has exclusive mineral and fishing rights over it.  
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Electoral regions   the different voting districts that make up local, state, and national regions.  
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Enclave   a small bit of foreign territory within a state but not under it's jurisdiction.  
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exclave   a portion of a state that is separated from the main territory and surrounded by another country.  
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European Union   an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members  
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Federal   A political territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state where they have common interrests defense, foreign affairs and yet allows these various entities to retain their own identities, laws  
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Forward capital   is the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status; although there are exceptions,  
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Frontier   a zone separating two states in which neither state exercises poliitical control.  
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Geopolitics   the influence of the habitat on political entities  
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Gerrymander   The drawing of electoral district boundaries in an awkward pattern to enhance the voting impact of one constituency at the expense of another.  
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Global commons   is that which no one person or state may own or control and which is central to life  
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Heartland   The interior of a sizable landmass, removed from maritime connections in particular the interior of the Eurasian continent.  
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rimland   the maritime fringe of a country or continent in particular the western southern and eastern edges of the Eurasian continent  
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Immigrant states    
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International organization   an international alliance involving many different countries  
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Iron Curtain   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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Irredentism   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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Israel/Palestine    
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Landlocked   a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.  
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Law of the Sea   A comprehensive 1982 convention which attempts to create a regime for the oceans  
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Lebanon    
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Mackinder, Halford J.   English geographer and is considered one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy.  
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Manifest destiny   was the 19th century American belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean.  
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Median-line principle   is an approach to dividing and creating boundaries at the mid-point between two places  
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Microstate/Ministate   a state that encompasses a very small land area  
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Nation   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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National iconography   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   member of modern state system possessing fromal sovereignty and with people possessing bonds of shared cultural attributes  
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Nunavut   newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories  
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Raison d'etre   The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone; the sole or ultimate purpose of something or someone  
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Reapportionment   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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Regionalism   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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Reunification   the act of coming together again  
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Satellite state   a small weak country dominated by one powerful neighbor to the extent that some or much of its independence is lost  
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state   a centralized authority that enforces a single political economic and legal system within its territorial boundaries  
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Stateless ethnic groups   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   group that does not have a state  
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Suffrage   the civil right to vote  
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Supranationalism   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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Territorial disputes   is a disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more states  
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Territorial morphology   an impact on the ability of ruling governments to impose law and policy on state territory  
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Territoriality   A behavior pattern in animals consisting of the occupation and defense of a territory  
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Theocracy   is a form of government in which a god or deity is recognized as the state's supreme civil ruler  
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Treaty ports   given to the port cities that were opened to foreign trade by the Unequal Treaties.  
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UNCLOS   also called the Law of the Sea Convention  
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Unitary   is a sovereign state governed as one single unit in which the central government is supreme and any administrative divisions (subnational units) exercise only powers that the central government chooses to delegate  
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USSR collapse    
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Women's enfranchisement   freedom from political subjugation or servitude  
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