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Ch 9 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Political Geography | The study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory |
| State | A politically organized independent territory with a government defined borders, and a permanent population; a country |
| Sovereignty | The right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders |
| Nations | A cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity - often all four of these |
| Nation-State | A politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation |
| Multistate Nation | People who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country |
| Irredentism | Attempts by a state to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation |
| Multinational State | A country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders; having patterns of self-determination |
| Autonomous/ Semiautonomous Region | Having the authority to govern territories independently of the national government |
| Stateless Nation | A people unified by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state |
| Colonialism | The practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories |
| Neocolonialism | The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies |
| Territoriality | The attempt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area; the connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land |
| Choke Point | A narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass |
| Shatterbelts | A region where states form, join and break up because of ongoing, sometimes violet, conflicts among parties and because they are caught between the interests of more powerful outside states |
| Self-Determination | The right of all people to choose their own political status |
| Imperialism | The push to create an empire by exercising force or influence to control other nations or peoples |
| Devolution | The process that occurs when the central power in a state is broken up among regional authorities within its borders |
| Define | To explicitly state in legally binding documentation such as a treaty where boundaries are located, using reference points such as natural features or lines of latitude and longitude |
| Delimit | To draw boundaries on a map, in accordance with a legal agreement |
| Demarcate | To place physical objects such as stones, pillars, walls or fences to indicate where a boundary exists |
| Administer | To manage the way borders are maintained and how goods and people cross them |
| Antecedent Boundaries | A border established before an area becomes heavily settled |
| Subsequent Boundaries | A border drawn in an area that has been settled and where cultural landscapes exist or are in the process of being established |
| Consequent Boundaries | A type of subsequent boundary that takes into account the differences that exist within a cultural landscape, separating groups that have distinct languages, religions, ethnicities or other traits |
| Superimposed Boundaries | A border drawn over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering force |
| Geometric Boundaries | A mathematically drawn boundary that typically follows lines of latitude and longitude or is a straight-line arc between two points |
| Relic Boundaries | A former boundary that no longer has an official function |
| United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) | The international agreement that established the structure of maritime boundaries |
| Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) | An area that extends 200 nautical miles from a state's coast; a state has sole access to resources found within the waters or beneath the sea floor of its EEZ |
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