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| 5597014517 | reapportionment | Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people | 0 | |
| 5597017748 | splitting | In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which the majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created therein ensuring control by the majority of each of the districts; as opposed to the result of majority-minority districts | 1 | |
| 5597025279 | majority-minority districts | A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting. | 2 | |
| 5597034878 | gerry meandering | Redrawing of districts boundaries to gain a political advantage | 3 | |
| 5597037875 | boundary | invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory | 4 | |
| 5597054905 | geometric boundary | Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines. | 5 | |
| 5597063927 | physical-political boundaries | political boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape | 6 | |
| 5597072290 | heartland theory | Hypothesis proposed by Halford MacKinder that held that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world. | 7 | |
| 5597079189 | critical geopolitics | Process by which geopoliticians deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians | 8 | |
| 5597083911 | unilateralism | World order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision-making process | 9 | |
| 5597091299 | supranational organization | Organization of three or more states to promote shared objectives. | 10 | |
| 5597102696 | deterritorialization | The movement of economic, social and cultural processes out of the hands of states. | 11 | |
| 5597110375 | reterritorialization | With respect to popular culture, when people within a place start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and making it their own | 12 | |
| 5597118752 | EU UN NATO NAFTA | 13 | ||
| 5597125248 | balance of power | distribution of military and economic power that prevents any one nation from becoming too strong | 14 | |
| 5597128179 | terrorism | Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population | 15 | |
| 5597131337 | isis | Islamic State of Iraq and Syria | 16 | |
| 5597136242 | Al-Qaeda | A network of Islamic terrorist organizations, led by Osama bin Laden, that carried out the attacks on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, and the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001 | 17 |
