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Political Geography |
A subdivision that focuses on nature and the problems of developing organisms |
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State |
A territory that a sovereign has created. A state has a definite, a permanent population, a government, and it is recognized as a state by other states. |
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Territoriality |
A country's or a local communities sense of property and attachment to the land. |
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Sovereignty |
A authority figure who has the last say and the final choice over a problem. |
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Territorial Intergrity |
The right for a state to defend itself from another state attacking them. |
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Peace of Westphalia |
A peace negotiated in 1648 to end the 30 year war. The treaty consisted of, new language recognizing statehood and nationhood, clearly defined borders, and guarantees of security. |
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Mercantilism |
A policy of European states that promoted a state's economic position with other countries. |
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Nation |
a term holding all citizens of the state |
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Nation-State |
A member of a modern state system that posses power and thinks of themselves as a single united nation. |
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Democracy |
The idea that the people are the sovereignty. |
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Multinational State |
A state with more than one nation inside its borders. |
Example: -Yugoslavia |
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Multistate nation |
When a nation stretches across states and borders. |
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Stateless Nation |
Nations that do not have states. |
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Capitalism |
The world economy, people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market with the intent of making profit. |
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Commodification |
Process of placing a price on a good and then buying, selling, and trading that good. |
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Core |
A process that incorporates higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology. |
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Periphery |
A process that incorporates lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology. |
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Semiperiphery |
Places where core and periphery processes are both occurring. |
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Ability |
The capacity of a state to influence another state or to achieve its goals through diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means. |
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Federal |
A system where a central government represents the various entities within a nationstate. |
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Centripetal |
Forces that unify a country. |
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Centrifugal |
Forces that divide a country. |
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Unitary |
A nationstate that has a centralized government and a administration that exercises power equally all over the the state. |
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Devolution |
The process where regions within a state demand and gain political and growing autonomy at the expense of central government. |
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Territorial Representation |
A system where each representative is elected from a territorial defined district. |
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Reappointment |
A process when a representative district are switches, according to population shifts. |
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Splitting |
The process by which majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created ensuring control by the majority of each district. |
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Majority-Minority Districts |
The process by which the majority of the population is from minority. |
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Gerrymandering |
The practice of dividing areas into electoral districts to give one political party a electoral majority. |
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Boundary |
A vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below and the air space above. |
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Geometric Boundary |
Boundary defined and delimited as a straight line or an arc. |
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Physical-Political Boundary |
Boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape. |
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Heartland Theory |
Any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient to eventually dominate the world. |
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Critical Geopolitics |
A process when geopoliticians deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians. |
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Unilateralism |
Order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision making processes. |
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Supernational Organization |
3 or more nation states involving political, economic, and/or cultural corporation to promote shared objects. |
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Wallerstein's Theory |
1. The world economy has one market and a global division labor 2. Although the world has multiple states, almost everything takes place within the context of the world economy 3. The world economy has a 3 tier structure |
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What are the 3 tiers? |
Capitalism Commodification Core |
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Give a example of a core country? |
United States |
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Colonialism |
A ruler over a anonymous group of people and place. Colonialism creates unequal cultural and economic relations |
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The Territorial Imperative |
Human territoriality is the like an animals instinct to control and defend its territory |
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Examples of Political Entities |
Republic of Venice Brandenburg Papla states of Italy Kingdom of Hungary |
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