Political Geography
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| show | a branch of geography that deals with human governments, the boundaries and subdivisions of political units (as nations or states), and the situations of cities
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| show | A country. Has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states. (a country)
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| Territoriality | show 🗑
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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. (legally having the last say over a territory)
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| show | the right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states. ( the status, dominion, power, or authority of a sovereign; royalty)
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| show | A tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural attributes. (EGHS)
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| Nation-State | show 🗑
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| Democracy | show 🗑
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| show | state with more than one nation within its borders (USA)
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| Colonialism | show 🗑
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| Scale | show 🗑
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| show | Economic model wherein people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market, with the goal of achieving profit. (prices and wages are determined by the forces of supply and demand)
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| show | the process through which something in given monetary value (pertaining to corn, soybeans, cotton, or other raw materials (i.e., the idea that "it's all the same."), but financial instruments can be commoditized, too)
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| show | Processes that incorporate higher levels od education, higher salaries, and more technology; generate more wealth than periphery processes in the world economy (USA)
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| Periphery | show 🗑
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| show | Places that both core and periphery processed are occurring; places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the periphery (China)
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| Ability | show 🗑
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| Centripetal | show 🗑
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| show | Forces that tend to divide a country
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| show | a nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equality over all parts of the state
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| show | The process whereby religions within a state demand and gain a political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
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| show | system wherein each representative is elected from a territoriality defined district
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| Reapportionment | show 🗑
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| Splitting | show 🗑
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| show | the process by which a majority of the population is from the minority
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| Gerrymandering | show 🗑
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| show | Vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above the surface.
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| show | Political boundary defined and delimited as a straight line or arch (US and Canada)
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| Critical Geopolitics | show 🗑
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| show | Political boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape
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| Heartland Theory | show 🗑
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| Unilateralism | show 🗑
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| Supranational Organization | show 🗑
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| show | a boundary line established before an area is populated
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| show | The contentious political process by which a state may break up into smaller countries
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| Buffer State | show 🗑
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| show | the expansion and perpetuation of an empire
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| Compact state | show 🗑
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| Confederation | show 🗑
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| Democratization | show 🗑
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| Domino Theory | show 🗑
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| Electoral College | show 🗑
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| Electoral Vote | show 🗑
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| show | a state whose territory is long and narrow in shape
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| show | any small and relatively homogeneous group or religion surrounded by another larger and different group or region
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| European Union | show 🗑
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| Fragmented states | show 🗑
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| Frontier | show 🗑
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| Geopolitics | show 🗑
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| Imperialism | show 🗑
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| show | an alliance of two or more countries seeking cooperation with each other without giving up either's autonomy or self-determination
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| Landlocked State | show 🗑
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| Law of the Sea | show 🗑
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| Lebensraum | show 🗑
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| show | a state or territory that is small in both population and area
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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 | Agreement signed on January 1st, 1994, that allows the opening of borders between US, Canada, and Mexico
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| show | An international organization that has joined together for military purposes
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| show | The view that states resemble biological organisms with life cycles that include stages of youth, maturity, and old age.
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| Perforated State | show 🗑
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| show | the tally of each individual's vote within a given geographic area
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| Prorupted state | show 🗑
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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 | old political boundaries that no longer exist as international boundaries, but have left a mark
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| show | the right of a nation to govern itself autonomously
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| show | rights and powers believed to be in the authority of the state rather than the federal government
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| show | boundary line established after an area has been settled that considers the social and cultural characteristics of an area
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| Territorial Dispute | show 🗑
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| show | political organization that distributes political power in more easily governed units of land
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| Theocracy | show 🗑
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